AJ vs. everybody

[ShaneMosleySr]

I don’t think Anthony Joshua has any friends in the boxing world outside his team, his gym and Matchroom.

Since his loss to Andy Ruiz, I only remember Ricky Hatton expressing confidence Joshua will win and saying he thinks Joshua should take the rematch.

It seems like everyone else in boxing has something bad to say about him recently.

I wonder how this will impact Joshua in the ring. I see signs that he’s already giving up on being mister nice guy.

His whole career, from the gold medal that was basically given to him, to his title wins over Charles Martin, Wladimir Klitschko and Joseph Parker, he’s always had a massive crowd and the feeling that world behind him. He even had the crowd and the world behind him in New York.

He was always the hero. I think it’ll be interesting to see him as the villain, which is what appears to be happening.

I also wonder if he’ll be mentally strong enough for that transition.

[_Rexy_]

The lesser Eubanks says that it was a fluke loss and AJ will dominate.

[Motorcity Cobra]

And everybody is taking Lennox Lewis side in their beef.

Hearn isolated AJ from the boxing world. He's in a bubble. Besides the Canelo fight I can't think of many fights I've seen AJ attend. And the Canelo fight at MSG was really a press event for AJ.

As big a star as Floyd was he still was connected to the boxing world. He'd attend fights and after the fights he'd do interviews with media including those small YouTube channels. Floyd had fighthype following him around Even Manny does that with Seckbach.

With AJ everything is corporate. He's isolated from the boxing world.