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Joshua and Hearn knew Wilder and Fury don't want to fight AJ and will continue to duck him for years if not forever. Wilder is a pretender, Fury is already talking about going to WWE full time.
So that leaves Joshua and Hearn in a bad position, where they can't win. Keep beating contenders and everyone says, so what, you were supposed to win. The media starts complaining. Hearn wants to tap into the American market and Ruiz is the perfect drill being a Mexican. DAZN investors need big money fights to get a proper return. With Wilder and Fury ducking, the most profitable option for Joshua is to throw a fight to a challenger with a potentially huge demographic (Mexican) to set up a gigantic rematch. The rematch will be a major seller, all the Mexicans will tune in (which is huge). AJ will destroy Ruiz and will be back on top. And he will gain the American market, gain in stature for avenging the loss while generating future interest, AJ is great, he is the best but he is vulnerable. So his career will have new momentum, new selling point angles. If he just beat Ruiz by TKO, think of where AJ's status would be. Ah he's just the best in a weak era, Fury and Wilder should fight him but they won't sign a contract. HWT boxing is a mess. So it would be a negative cloud over AJ, even though he's the best. Fighting Pulev, Usyk would not have any buzz but now they do. Because AJ is seen as vulnerable. Make sense?
The fact that AJ let Ruiz hold the belts and pose with them at the weigh in was a big tell. You never saw a champion do that before a title fight before. Also posing and smiling with Ruiz in the ring after the fight was strange. AJ looked too happy. And his performance was suspect, he looked like he came to lose.
Joshua and Hearn are beholden to DAZN. They have to do what's best for DAZN to keep the money investing. It's not enough for AJ to just keep winning, he has to sustain generating huge revenues like he did in the soccer stadium fights.
Joshua and Hearn knew Wilder and Fury don't want to fight AJ and will continue to duck him for years if not forever. Wilder is a pretender, Fury is already talking about going to WWE full time.
So that leaves Joshua and Hearn in a bad position, where they can't win. Keep beating contenders and everyone says, so what, you were supposed to win. The media starts complaining. Hearn wants to tap into the American market and Ruiz is the perfect drill being a Mexican. DAZN investors need big money fights to get a proper return. With Wilder and Fury ducking, the most profitable option for Joshua is to throw a fight to a challenger with a potentially huge demographic (Mexican) to set up a gigantic rematch. The rematch will be a major seller, all the Mexicans will tune in (which is huge). AJ will destroy Ruiz and will be back on top. And he will gain the American market, gain in stature for avenging the loss while generating future interest, AJ is great, he is the best but he is vulnerable. So his career will have new momentum, new selling point angles. If he just beat Ruiz by TKO, think of where AJ's status would be. Ah he's just the best in a weak era, Fury and Wilder should fight him but they won't sign a contract. HWT boxing is a mess. So it would be a negative cloud over AJ, even though he's the best. Fighting Pulev, Usyk would not have any buzz but now they do. Because AJ is seen as vulnerable. Make sense?
The fact that AJ let Ruiz hold the belts and pose with them at the weigh in was a big tell. You never saw a champion do that before a title fight before. Also posing and smiling with Ruiz in the ring after the fight was strange. AJ looked too happy. And his performance was suspect, he looked like he came to lose.
Joshua and Hearn are beholden to DAZN. They have to do what's best for DAZN to keep the money investing. It's not enough for AJ to just keep winning, he has to sustain generating huge revenues like he did in the soccer stadium fights.
pure idiocy in this post. Take your meds bro
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