AJ suffered a panic attack before the fight according to his father

[UNBIASED BOXING]

I mean, what's the likelihood this is a BS instagram post?

It's on a small-time page with what I can see no real credentials, no offense.

[A.K]

He’s just not built like that he’s a well spoken good guy who never went through a real struggle.

[vaborikua2014]

I believe this. I've been saying he can't handle the world stage. That's why he never wanted to fight here. Lennox Lewis couldn't figure out why AJ didn't want to fight in America. It's because he's comfortable being a big fish in a small pond. The UK was watching his fight against Klitschko. The whole world was watching his fight against Ruiz because it was his US debut & it was being held in NY at the Mecca of boxing. If AJ can't handle Wilder confronting him in the ring he really can't handle the pressure of being on the world stage

Anthony Joshua 's father has publicly stated that Joshua suffered a panic attack in his dressing room before the fight, delaying his ring walk. His Father asked Eddie Hearn to call the fight off as Joshua didn't…

— ashikoto risto (@ashikotoristo)

Not an aj fan but I believe this. He didnt look right at all. When he walked to the ring and when they were announcing him he was acting weird. This was my father's first time watching Joshua fight and he was asking what's wrong with him when they were announcing him. Something was definitely wrong with him he didnt act right before during and after the fight.

[Motorcity Cobra]

This actually makes perfect sense, that ring walk was absolutely delayed but I just wrote it off to his AJ teams antics. AJ looked extra sluggish in there. The nerves sapped him of all his energy, thats why my man couldn't recover after getting dropped.

And Hearn said he got the sense from AJ he was relieved the pressure was off of him after he lost.

[Ray*]

Lol, yeah right. Panic attack, he fought in front of 90,000 people before. That alone is enough to give you one. If he isn't getting one doing that then i doubt fighting in front of 19,000 people would do that.

[Money Shot]

He defo had a panic attack when Jr clipped him.

[Southpawology]

so fighting in the garden made him have a panic attack? but fighting in front of almost 100,000 people in wembley didnt? lol.

[LacedUp]

Where has this been publicly stated?

getting a panic attack doesn't necessarily have anything to do with him being scared. He's fought on big stages before, bigger than this against better opposition.

But i'd like to know where this has been said.

Could you imagine they called the fight off as he's about to walk in? Would have been a total disaster.

[BangEM]

This is crazy if true.

I had panic attack for the first time in my life a while back whilst driving on the motorway and I'll say it was the worst experience of my life. And I've been driving since I was 16 with no fear and didn't know where it came from because I was speed and overtaking like I always do before something just hit me out of nowhere. Everything just changed after that and the motorway just turned into a slope like I was fall to the left. I had to park the car and couldn't drive for 5hrs. I thought I was going to die that night.

Why not just cancel the fight if that was the case? And panic attacks seem to stay for a long time because I don't think I've recovered from mine and I'm not going anywhere near a motorway any time soon (I've not been near one in a year, lol). I'm myself on dual carriage roads tho.

Josh is done but I'll forever rate him tho.

[Bmore18]

Where has this been publicly stated?

getting a panic attack doesn't necessarily have anything to do with him being scared. He's fought on big stages before, bigger than this against better opposition.

But i'd like to know where this has been said.

Could you imagine they called the fight off as he's about to walk in? Would have been a total disaster.

That would be worse than actually losing the fight image-wise.

I dunno, IF true I'd believe this as it makes perfect sense how AJ was acting and why he seemed super happy and relieved after the fight was over. NOTE: NOT an excuse for losing, Ruiz beat him fair and square, but would go a long way to explain why almost everyone said he looked different