Comments Thread For: Hearn: Costume Excuse Will Follow Wilder Like Haye's Toe Story

[JayCho]

Breland should have thrown the costume in the ring, not the towel.

If the costume landed on someone, they would have been KO’d lol

[The Westerner]

Breland should have thrown the costume in the ring, not the towel.

Bwaaaahahahahahahaaaah

[Roberto Vasquez]

Do you have a link to this interview? Because I’ve heard everybody but AJ claim there were medical issues for the first fight. Even if you provide a link to an interview where AJ says this, he still didn’t cry and lie in the post fight interview and subsequent interviews claiming rabbit punches, heavy Game of Thrones armour or Breland being influenced by Anthony Dirrell to throw the towel in. Wilder is an absolute joke.

I read an interview in the newspaper the day after the second Ruiz fight. But it's on the net too

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/boxing/anthony-joshua-andy-ruiz-fight-pulev-health-issue-surgery-next-opponent-a9238696.html

“I didn’t know what was wrong with me. I felt so tired and drained and thought it must be down to training. In the changing room before the fight I got a bucket of ice and was putting my head in it thinking ‘why do I feel so tired?’

“After my check-ups it showed what the problem was and this is what you have to get sorted. Even in this camp I had an operation done but as I’d started training in June I had no issues.”

I think he did the right thing - staying quiet about it. It was good tactically as well because Ruiz would have assumed Josuha wasn't going to improve for the 2nd fight.

Actually to be fair - he does say he thought it was training that made him so tired so maybe he didn't think anything was wrong at the time

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Not even close.

The toe story was silly but haye stuck with it and his fans argued it may have sapped his confidence etc... Whatever.

Wilder:
Came in with an injured leg
Came in with an injured hand
Came in with an injured ear
Exhausted himself semi-unconscious by walking down a ramp in a costume
Sabotaged by his own team
Sick with the flu
Fury had loaded gloves
etc
etc
etc

There's never been anything like this.

Not just talking about boxing either. What pro athlete has ever gone this far with the excuses?

He's on the brink of claiming aliens abducted him shortly before the fight.

[Squared.Circle]

I read an interview in the newspaper the day after the second Ruiz fight. But it's on the net too

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/boxing/anthony-joshua-andy-ruiz-fight-pulev-health-issue-surgery-next-opponent-a9238696.html

I think he did the right thing - staying quiet about it. It was good tactically as well because Ruiz would have assumed Josuha wasn't going to improve for the 2nd fight.

Actually to be fair - he does say he thought it was training that made him so tired so maybe he didn't think anything was wrong at the time

I was indeed one of those who missed this lol there’s a difference between reasons and excuses, and those differences are Wilder and AJ. AJ waited several months to give his thoughts on what happened in the first fight. Wilder waited several minutes for the post fight ring interview to say he had injuries and his legs were weak.

[Roberto Vasquez]

I was indeed one of those who missed this lol there’s a difference between reasons and excuses, and those differences are Wilder and AJ. AJ waited several months to give his thoughts on what happened in the first fight. Wilder waited several minutes for the post fight ring interview to say he had injuries and his legs were weak.

It's because Wilder has a weak ego. I don't mean that as an insult, just as a fact. He really has to believe he is that undefeatable bronze bomber - rather than the truth that is just a very good fighter. Anything that contradicts the image he has of himself - can't be true. So he needs reasons as to why he lost that are outside of himself.

[Thuglife Nelo]

Damn Hearn went gangsta