Whatever dude. The minute he let go of those quick hands you couldn’t handle it. The body language said it all: Couldn’t handle it. If he lets those quick hands again, there will be a meltdown.

Lol
Joshua lost to the pilsbury dough boy.
Although,.. he is very tough.

Firstly , I wish AJ wouldn’t talk like this even if he’s feeling it.

I’m picking AJ but not a 100% confident prediction. My worry for him is that he over compensates on caution I would even prefer him to disregard the comms about going for the KO when he hurt Ruiz.
To me there seem to have been far more cases where a guy has another guy hurt and not jumped on him and gone on to lose than cases where a guy is hurt and KOed by another fighter when going for the finish.
AJ has been hurt/floored before and must take something from that. Wlad (who is a bigger puncher) floored him late in a good paced fight and he got back up to get the KO. If Wlad had caught AJ with a similar shot to that which Ruiz caught him he would surely have got the same result? You can’t odds a shot which hits the sweet spot and messes up your balance and recovery ability.
So all in all I wouldn’t change too much other than realising that AR is more of a threat and that will naturally be there. As will the thought of who he fights next

Andy hasn’t even tested his chin. He’s Only tested His noggin. And that shit cracked. So yea. All Andy.

Def a PPV event. AJ will sing his swan song if he looses. I still believe AJ has overwhelming physical advantages and should at least box Ruiz’s ears off. However if AJ does not take caution he will get KO’d again. Ruiz has quick hands and power and can take a shot unlike AJ, who is vulnerable. Does AJ even know how to attack RTuiz’s soft belly? AJ will never be able to drop Ruiz for a 10 count or a stoppage. If AJ fights a perfect fight Ruiz’s corner will have to stop the fight in the late rounds

I have a feeling it might end even earlier, unless AJ keeps Ruiz at the end of his reach. That said, anything can happen in a HW fight.

We all know styles make fights, i mean the true fans of the sports know this.

But what we tend to avoid looking at is the reality in that, if I were fighting lets say Floyd Mayweather I would not set up a camp focused on a Mike Tyson like Style I would hire slick defensive counter punchers with hand speed and great footwork because thats the style I am going in there against.

Joshua had 2/3 of his camp focused on the style of Miller, it was not announced that he would fight Ruiz until May 1st. that leaves Joshua with only 3 weeks to revamp his entire game plan and find sparring partners who have that style of fighting.

Good sparring partners are not easy to find much less sparring partners with this kind of style at Heavyweight. I would say it took a few days for them to find sparring partners this left Joshua with about 2 and a half weeks to make major adjustments not enough time IMHO.

Now I know you are all going to say well what about Ruiz he didnt have time either.

in a sense that is true however Ruiz went right back into the gym after beating Dimitrenko who is a tall Eastern European fighter a similar style to Joshua so he was better suited going into the fight because basically he had two camps facing two guys with similar attributes.

Then comes the fight itself, Joshua scoring a early knock down was my biggest fear because I knew Joshua would be tempted to match the performance of WBC Champion Wilder just weeks earlier and thats exactly what happened.

Joshua went in for the kill stayed in there too long and got nailed with a shot that changed everything. it was a shot he simply could not fully recover from the right shot on the right spot and it forever changed history.

However what I do NOT understand is how people are questioning this mans chin and heart, he got up four times he fought back even when hurt he wanted to continue when it was stopped.

What is disturbing to see is how so called true fans are making such statements when you know they are simply not true, if Joshua had no chin he would have been counted out that did not happen and some of you make Ruiz out to be a monster puncher look at his record he has a 64% knock out ratio not exactly a big banger but he is a heavyweight and in this division it really only takes one shot.

with all of that said Joshua has had a full camp focused on one man and some of you forget Ruiz was dropped he was rocked after being dropped and he was hit with clean shots along the way he just had a guy in front of him who happened to not be fully prepared for his style.

Now I know some of you are going to come here and discredit my claims some of you will resort to trash talking and name calling I get it some of you are team Hayman no matter what and some of you are just haters to you I say this, the message here is not meant for you its meant for the true fan who wants to discuss the sport.

All I am going to say in closing is this there are no excuses this time around and I havent made an excuse for Joshuas loss the last time around this is a sport where anything can happen, I would have rather Joshuas people post pone the US Debut but you know what thats the business aspect of the game.

What I will say is that this time round we are going to have a different Joshua in there one who is prepared for that style and who has had a camp 100% dedicated to the style of Ruiz, He will not be fooled by the flabby fatness he sees he will not be tempted when he scores big in the fight he will not be fooled by the soft spoken Ruiz he will know the real dangers here and that is what will keep him honest enough to get the job done

Let Ruiz continue to run his mouth as he has been lately so far he has learned that No he is not the A side in this, the evidence in that is the location of the fight and the purse that the so called B side is making in this fight.