Comments Thread For: Anthony Joshua: Version 2.0

[Split Decision]

Andy Ruiz 2.0 became slower with added weight that dissapointed a lot of fans from both sides. AJ victory was just enough and less satisfying because of undisciplined Andy Ruiz.

then thats not and ruiz 2.0 if he's worse lmao

[James Hunt]

AJ will never be able to please guys who hate him. So if I were him, I would never even try to. Just keep winning, keep filling the stadiums, keep all 4 of the belts and keep making 10 times what the other boxers are making. Stop chasing Wilder, Fury and the rest of them that don't really want to fight him. And when they do finally grow the balls to face him, offer them less than what they would have got years ago. ****'em. And no trilogy for fat turd Ruiz. He can now go back to the under cards.

Exactly that. Spot on!

[Winky-Wright]

As a Fury fan I really want to apologize to Wilder fans for all the sh** talk, yes Fury toyed with him but at least he has the heart to fight anyone and when he fights he comes to fight and not to run. There's this guy from the UK, he's even scared to call out real HW let alone fight them, his promoter is doing the talking for him. But hey not many HW's out there have the heart to fight a caliber of a fighter like Pulev right?

Ah The good old victim Fury eating a whole wild boar a week with cousin Hughie and failing a drug test for Deca all at the fault of UKAD.

Then fighting the the ruff and rugged Tom Swartz followed by the top avoided contender Otto Wallin and blaming the reason it got about 20 PPV buys is because the UK fans don’t like him and are against him. Boooo hoooo.

[The Big Dunn]

I hope AJ 2.0 isn't like wlad 2.0 where he hides overseas and beats up European bum after bum because he is too afraid to fight in the US and get KTFO again. That would be very unfortunate.

It will also be interesting to see how fans react if AJ starts to fight like Wlad. Fans really got turned off by wlad's style when he became the white HWT Floyd in the ring. Will fans feel the same about AJ if he adopts the same style to protect his chin?

F-ck it, the smart ting to do is fight the way that gives you the best chance to win.

[The Big Dunn]

AJ will never be able to please guys who hate him. So if I were him, I would never even try to. Just keep winning, keep filling the stadiums, keep all 4 of the belts and keep making 10 times what the other boxers are making. Stop chasing Wilder, Fury and the rest of them that don't really want to fight him. And when they do finally grow the balls to face him, offer them less than what they would have got years ago. ****'em. And no trilogy for fat turd Ruiz. He can now go back to the under cards.

Exactly that. Spot on!

You guys want him to just hide overseas and fight bum after bum. Do we really need a HWT Calzaghe?

[NorvernRob]

Its funny how when Joseph Parker does the same thing, he gets slagged for being timid.

Joshua follows the blueprint Parker showed to beat Ruiz and suddenly he's a genius conducting a masterclass.

SMH!

Parker won by two points on two cards, the other was a draw. Hardly a ‘blueprint’. Joshua won nearly every round.

[Tyistall]

I cannot agree with this mindset at all

The only fights that matter at HW right now are between Wilder, Fury, and AJ

ALL OTHER FIGHTS ARE MEANINGLESS

Right, so then tell Wilder to take the 120 million and unify. Or tell Fury to stop fighting tomato cans or wrestling, and take the fight too.

[Tyistall]

"It wasn’t pretty"

This. It was the most annoying performance in a hw title match I've ever witnessed. Never been a fan of Joshua (I much prefer Tyson Fury and, somehow, even Wilder) but after this I think even more that he's only interested in money (so he HAD to win, whatever that strategy could have been).

Correction, the most annoying performance by a heavyweight was when Fury beat Klitschko. The third round compubox stats showed that Fury outlanded Klitscho 2 to 1. The entire fight was a joke. So if you want to say that a Heavyweight fight was "not pretty", you can start right there and basically go to any Fury fight because he is the ultimate safety first fighter. And he fights that way with tomato cans in front of him

[Sparked_26]

Totally agree, AJ boxed solidly and let the back hand go a lot more than Wlad did generally.

I would love to see Wilder vs Parker, think that would be a really interesting and legit HW title bout. Parker is cute enough to take rounds off Wilder, and seems to have a granite chin and power to get Wilders respect.

Parker’s the one i’d pick to beat Wilder. Like you I suspect he’s the one who might be able to hold a big shot from Wilder and he can be busy.

I don’t think that’s a fight that happens. Tbh.

[pollywog]

Parker won by two points on two cards, the other was a draw. Hardly a ‘blueprint’. Joshua won nearly every round.

The blue print was to outbox Ruiz, fight off the back foot, take him the distance and get the decision.

Once he realised the knockout wasnt coming and that Ruiz had a decent set of whiskers if you decided to hold the centre and trade shots with him, that's what he did.

It was an adjustment Parker made in real time, during the fight, that Joshua never did in Ruiz 1.

It took a loss and that exact adjustment before AJ made it and followed Parkers blueprint to beat Ruiz 2.0.

Now Joshua is being lauded as some genius master class boxer...oh please. Slow learner and fighting scared is what I'd call it.

Ill also add that Parker took Ruiz best shots way better than Joshua did and has taken every opponents shots better than anyone they've fought previously.

Parker has never fought scared of anyone and is good to go at anytime with anybody.

"As much as I'm frustrated, I've been keeping training and I've been keeping fit. I'm ready to go anytime, I'll fight anyone, anywhere, anytime, I don't care who it is," Parker told Radio Sport.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/sport/combat-sports/118041133/joseph-parker-criticises-andy-ruiz-jr-for-being-out-of-shape-against-anthony-joshua

Unfortunately, there's quite a few big talking snowflake heavies out there who talk the talk but don't walk the walk.

Oilskin Parker is not one of them! His record speaks for itself. A loss to Joshua over the distance with dubious reffing and a knockdown head butt by Whyte who was saved by the ref and bell in the championship round and was probably on Peds anyway.

Make no mistake. Parker is getting ducked and sidelined in much the same way as Ortiz was in his prime.