Comments Thread For: Joshua: It's As Much About Being Smart As About Knockouts

[Tecnoworld]

Fury does what Joshua did in that fight every fight

Nope. Look at the differences:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyP0_YDpWpg&t=27

AJ was simply jumping. Continuously. Far from Ruiz, who was by far too small and slow to get near. Nothing more.

[Nusky]

The way he fought Ruiz in the second fight is mostly irrelevant. The fact is he got the victory and it puts us(the fans) back at square one- no unification bout.

Regardless, I'll always have the footage to look back on of Aj doing the Stanky Leg in the first fight. That is irrefutable.

[Ake-Dawg]

All these comments about wilder Ko Aj is kinda absurd. Can he? Of course. What happens when Aj lands that left hook right hand on the chin of wilder? Fury buzzed wilder a lot with a simple 1-2. Imagine if he had more pop I’m sure he would of stopped wilder. Everybody forgets wilder gets shaken up in almost every fight even the Breazeale fight. It’s a 50/50 fight.

That's the thing...he has to land it...and if he throws it with KO conviction and misses he risks catching the Wilder right hand. Wilder has been hurt in one fight. No need to oversell the Fury and Breazeale punches that landed.

The AJ from Saturday doesn't have enough power to KO Wilder and that's the only version of AJ that can protect his chin.

[steeve steel]

AJ before the fight : " It's about pride! I'm going for the KO"
AJ during the fight : Running like a naked girl in the street
AJ after the fight: " It's all about strategy".

[Nightfall]

He was scared to get hit by a fat out of shape chef. It was painful to watch this over grown coward run the entire fight. He doesn't last 2 rds. with Wilder 🥊

[Jkp]

Wilder couldn't knock Fury at his worst out and literally lost every round of the fight where most pundits admit it was a stitch up n Fury dominated.....

Fury has gotten better since, worked in his training and improved his fitness from the stress of being 400lbs and taking coke put him through.

What's Wilder done since? Rematched a man who was 10 years too old the first time they fought and got outboxed in every single round.

Wilder has one thing going for him: Power. The type of Power we haven't seen since Tommy Hearns but lacks the amateur pedigree of Hearns and trainers like Emmanuel.

If Emmanuel had Wilder from 14+ we'd probably be watching the greatest heavyweight of all time but alas he didn't and we aren't.

Wilder beats everyone not named Fury. Joshua is the gatekeeper to the #3 spot.

Fury looked great against Wilder and absolutely awful in his last 2 fights against bums.

People have even suggested he was on stimulants given how jittery and wide eyed he was against Wilder, and the way he sprang up from the dead. He was clearly extremely fit to go 12 rounds without slowing. Clearly not at his worst. Stop being so dramatic...

[thabanga510]

The same people upset that AJ didn't give away his advantages and fight up close with a shorter fighter with fast hands would be clowning AJ if he lost again.

Do you, and never listen to these grown up babies.

Joshua was one of those mad people when Fury did it to Wlad.

[doom_specialist]

Joshua's correct here. I'm not a huge fan of the guy, but it's not his job to give advantages to his opponent. He put on a good technical performance against a short, slow, relatively out of shape opponent, who clearly made the same underestimation that Joshua did the first time. Shame that Ruiz didn't take things more seriously.

[Dle]

Being smart is to stay the fvk away from Wilder (which daddy Hearn will make sure that you do) talk is cheap

[Adamsc151]

Fighting smart worked well for Wlad and Lennox, don't see why it wouldn't work for Joshua who is a similar frame to both greats. When they didn't fiht smart (in general, pre Manny Steward) they lost.