He was hyped because he looks fit and strong in an era where many HWs look out of shape or average at best. AJ was robotic and paid for that in the Ruiz fight but he learnt something new in the rematch. Depends on how much he learns and adapts skill-wise for he has the body frame to back up his potential.
This is a fair assessment. The biggest challenge for him is to develop most of the needed elite skills during his pro career because he lacks the fluidity of a fighter who has had solid amateur experience.
Since I've been on here - I'm yet to have any wrong predictions about heavyweights. Well, it comes with territory and knowing yer onions.
When everyone else was screaming Ajagba as the next big thing - I watched the guy and confidently said he's a bum who won't go far. I got attacked by all kinds of posters for it but it's funny how everyone is saying the same thing now within a year.
It's not rocket science - you just need to be able to study boxers and analyse their talent/skill-level. Most boxers, retired boxers and analysts also don't do that and they mostly go by the hype as well. But once you start doing that - you'd see a lot of boxers for what they're.
Ajagba was always too slow, too stiff, too mechanical, his power is average - with no footwork and head movement - to do anything spectacular. You can offset a lot of deficiencies with speed and power. However, you can't teach both and since Ajagba lacks both...that was basically why I wrote him off completely.
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