Comments Thread For: Joshua: Ruiz Will Face 'Completely Different Beast' In Rematch

[_Rexy_]

So I guess this means the Saudi Arabian boxing commission early okay'd his TUE.

Women banned from the match, Alcohol banned from the match, Testosterone permitted.

[giant_king]

Yea those same chemist that Vlad had is mixing up different roid solution as we speak something vada testing don't know about yet if Joshua gets the fight in the UK this will be a cake walk and everything will be restored

[Califire209]

You're going to need a Year-and-a-half! With a new trainer to correct those mistakes, AJ won't have enough confidence or skill coming into the rematch.. unless he's able to use the Billy Joe Saunders inhalant...

[MastaBlasta]

LoLoL! It's an art to say so much with so little. Kudos.

[Jkp]

AJ didn't get to where he is by having no heart.

How you gonna watch the fights with Whyte, Wlad and Povetkin and tell people he's got no heart?

Even in the Ruiz fight he got up 4 damn times and kept swinging. What do you expect exactly?

Correction.
He got up 3 times and kept fighting. The 4th time he cowered in the corner, and refused to participate any further.

AJ should practice burpees for the next fight. Getting off the deck constantly seems to be his talent.

[MastaBlasta]

Exactly what I said after Ruiz bombed him out. He doesnt have to brawl with Ruiz, I think he will win a rather boring decision boxing behind his jab and an occasional 1-2.

Ruiz is a different animal. Without the ref totally hindering the fight there will be no way AJ can avoid Ruiz. Ruiz has gotten very skilled at forcing larger guys to mix it up ... I mean very skilled. He is very much a warrior too. Once the gloves start flying, he takes punches well and still focuses on doing damage. He's very good at it (that's why there was an upset).

AJ is a large, strong HW. He can hurt Ruiz if he can weather the constant storms. Problem is AJ doesn't like to get hit hard. He tries to avoid it, and loses focus when it happens.

It's possible for AJ to win, but I think the odds are that Ruiz catches him and ****s him up ... again and again. Ruiz has an incredible motor, his physique does not reveal his endurance.

Aj (without some type of shenanigans by the ref or promoter) is in for a war. He does not like wars.

[MastaBlasta]

An undefeated, unified HW champ gets defeated by a huge underdog, and now has the fight of his career ahead of him to show the world what he's made of. Gentlemen, this is boxing at its best!

Agreed!

[MastaBlasta]

People continue to disregard the interview where Ruiz claims he benefitted greatly from the way the training camps played out in the first fight. It would be different if Ruiz was roughed up in the Dimitrenko fight, but he wasn't. He wasn't knocked down, beat up, or KO'd, was he ? It didn't go 12 rounds, did it ?

Ruiz was not unscathed. Dimeitrenko started out landing huge leather.It was a physical fight while it lasted. Ruiz takes punches well, but I'm sure he would have preferred time to recover from that fight, as any HW would.

All fighters stay sharper if they can get back in the ring sooner. Ruiz WAS sharp because he had to be with Dimitrenko. Yes, that carried over. But, because he will have had time to recover and re-sharpened for this fight, he will probably be in a much better place. So, no, I don't agree that Joshua has seen the best Ruiz.

[Roberto Vasquez]

No. Those are just the ones getting caught.

The best resourced guys never get caught.

Please show your evidence then that proves these best-resourced guys are taking drugs. Or is it just because some random guy on the internet said they were taking drugs and you wanted to believe that, so you did?

I'm guessing it's that...

[CauliflowerEars]

Ruiz was not unscathed. Dimeitrenko started out landing huge leather.It was a physical fight while it lasted. Ruiz takes punches well, but I'm sure he would have preferred time to recover from that fight, as any HW would.

All fighters stay sharper if they can get back in the ring sooner. Ruiz WAS sharp because he had to be with Dimitrenko. Yes, that carried over. But, because he will have had time to recover and re-sharpened for this fight, he will probably be in a much better place. So, no, I don't agree that Joshua has seen the best Ruiz.

Great points. I too think Ruiz will be at least as prepared and hungry as he was in the first bout. I still say there is a degree of unknown that we will only know after they meet again. The fame and fortune on this level is new to Andy, and the loss and humiliation is new to AJ. How they respond is ultimately, speculation and conjecture. It's exciting and so good for the HW division, imo. Yeeeehaaaaaa.
Peace.