Comments Thread For: Hearn: Lara's KO Of Warrington 'Much Bigger Shock' Than Ruiz's Upset Of Joshua

[_Rexy_]

More like 1 out of 10 for Ruiz. It was a single temple shot that beat AJ, Ruiz was knocked down for the first time in his career so AJ can stop him, your assessment seems naive at best and biased beyond belief at worst.
If AJ doesn't go close quarters with Ruiz where Ruiz's short arms give him a huge advantage, Ruiz has no chance of winning at all.

A "simple temple shot" in the third round caused your idol to quit in the seventh? Sounds like a hell of a problem

[_Rexy_]

Andy only just lost the WBO vs Parker (arguably he won) .

Lara .. nothing really

so on paper this was worse. I'm not convinced by Lara even after that win but I'd love to see some more of a fit Ruiz.

I had Andy beating Parker TBH, and I was one of two or three people that picked Ruiz for the Upset on Joshua. But that doesn't hide the fact that he was unranked having only one fight in two years.

[Marchegiano]

Not even ****ing close

Joshua debutted with fan fair. Joshua's meant to be the greatest boxer in the past 30 years since before he even fought Martin.

Martin called out Joshua specifically because Joshua got so much press without actually having done anything on the world stage.

Warrington is just a kid who did well and got upset in his career. There's tons of that in boxing all the time. Joshua was made to be special from the beginning and when he lost to an out of shape fat man who had already lost to a man he beat pretty easily that was shocking even for Joshua haters who claimed Ruiz was going to win. No one thought Ruiz would destroy Joshua and the excitement from those whose trolling worked out lets you know how much they really believed in the possibility.

Buster is the only thing close in boxing history I know of.


Edit - Rexy don't count. He's legit, but like he said, maybe 3 posters here were legit on Ruiz's side....no one

[landotter]

Joshua had more hype than Warrington, and he was making his debut in the U.S., at the historic Madison Square Garden! Plus the optics were horrible! We knew Ruiz was world class, but to the casuals, a fat Mexican beat the brakes off a Mandingo Warrior! They couldn't see it coming! Joshua's loss was more shocking!

I tend to agree with you. Joshua was world class. The top money maker in the premier division of boxing. He held the same titles as Ali, Holmes, Tyson, and Lewis. It was his American coming out party with a replacement fighter who had just fought a few months prior. Those of us on this site and other boxing fans knew Ruiz and said at the time he was a real boxer who had the punchers chance, but to the rest of the world and here in America it was a shocking, lead the sports talk shows upset.

This is a major story here and among Warrington's fans. And while I get Eddie's point and do not disagree with it on paper, in reality it does not measure up to what Ruiz did.

[KingGilgamesh]

Optics. Disagree.

A guy with Joshua's physique getting railed by a short, fat guy.

It'd be Fat Joe beating the hell out of The Rock.

The best boxer today is a 6'7 egg shaped fatso who looks like he has two left feet.

Never understood why people are so obsessive about physique in boxing. Most of the better heavyweights where I train look pretty terrible.

[Laypipe]

Hearn still tryna minimize joshuas ko...hands down Joshua biggest upset...$20 made me $300 on that one.

[tokon]

A rematch clause against a guy that was
". . not really renowned as a world-class featherweight. You know, fringe guy . . ."

Doesn't sound like either Hearn or Warrington had too much confidence going into that fight!

[Combat Talk Radio]

The best boxer today is a 6'7 egg shaped fatso who looks like he has two left feet.

Never understood why people are so obsessive about physique in boxing. Most of the better heavyweights where I train look pretty terrible.

Fury has a dad bod. That's fine.

Ruiz is WAY beyond dad bod.

[wrecksracer]

No. No it wasn't.

[Monty Fisto]

Lara is a heavy handed fighter who will knock out Warrington again if a rematch is made.
This fight is similar to Amir Khan vs Breidis Prescott.

I'd agree with the comparison with Prescott. The evidence is in and we now know the damage he can do.