Comments Thread For: Motivated Ruiz Not Surprised Joshua Is Favored In Rematch

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Andy Ruiz Jr. provided an emphatic reminder six months ago that odds-makers sometimes get it entirely wrong. Most Las Vegas and Internet handicappers installed Anthony Joshua as at least a 20-1 favorite to defeat Ruiz in the days leading up to their June 1 fight at Madison Square Garden in New York. An underestimated Ruiz wasn't quite a Buster Douglas-like underdog, but his seventh-round stoppage of Joshua amounted to the biggest heavyweight championship upset since Hasim Rahman knocked out Lennox Lewis in the fifth round 18 years earlier in Brakpan, South Africa.
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[byfbnz]

joshua hit ruiz with a huge right in 3rd right after ruiz got up. didn't faze ruiz at all. if fight is on the level ruiz will win again.

[jackblack008]

The glass jaw going down again.

[EDD1]

I wonder how informed odds makers for big bet markets are on boxing, I figure it's people with some knowledge on trends.
If I was an odds maker I can see how several details in the fight might make Joshua a slight favourite:
1- He was not interested in fighting a replacement in the first place - so didn't prepare right.
2- He ended the fight on his feet - it was not a brutal KO
3- His athletic and physical advantages

[Califire209]

In Heavyweight Boxing your only as Great as the strength of your Chin

[True That]

................I'm not surprised about the betting odds either Andy

[Roberto Vasquez]

joshua hit ruiz with a huge right in 3rd right after ruiz got up. didn't faze ruiz at all. if fight is on the level ruiz will win again.

Yes that's a good indicator of the strength of Ruiz's chin.

On the other hand just because that right didn't floor him, doesn't mean it wouldn't have if it had landed in a slightly different way. You see that in fights all the time.

I think AJ made a mistake losing weight. He should have just fought smarter in the 2nd fight and used his reach and power to keep Ruiz away. That was his best chance. With less weight he won't be able to keep Ruiz off him

[Joe Beamish]

Joshua has never proven to be a genuinely good fighter. Just a great physique. Until Joshua develops new skills and a real desire to win, I'll pick Ruiz.

[Guy3008]

Joshua will probably blast Ruiz from the outside all night. It will be jab right hand clinch type of fight like Wlad.

[apollocreed]

I wonder how informed odds makers for big bet markets are on boxing, I figure it's people with some knowledge on trends.
If I was an odds maker I can see how several details in the fight might make Joshua a slight favourite:
1- He was not interested in fighting a replacement in the first place - so didn't prepare right.
2- He ended the fight on his feet - it was not a brutal KO
3- His athletic and physical advantages

The bookies are occasionally wrong, and they are this time imo.
Josh Taylor was the underdog v Prograis, and I won money on him.
I'll be putting down £100 on Ruiz.