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

[strykr619]

Oh my God. Every excuse in the world is coming out.

Next we’re gonna hear how AJ was uncomfortable with his locker room.

You ever had a panic attack? I've seen my cousin go thru them (he gets medicated for his). Its no laughing matter.

If this really happened to him the fight should have been called off.

[STREET CLEANER]

Nerves will get you tire before the fight. When you get hit the nerve go and the fight instinct takes over.

One more excuse why a rematch or if anybody wants to fight AJ will have to be in the UK

[Ray*]

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

Exactly!

[CHOWWOKKA]

Sounds like an excuse...

[JimRaynor]

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.

Different country, and bigger expectations. Say what you will, but you're not respected until you are respected in the USA, even if the arena is 10K people.

[BangEM]

a panic attack??? yeah right. is this AJ's first boxing match in his entire life?

It doesn't matter, things like that just happen out of nowhere. I had one about a year ago for the first time in my life and it was surreal. And it happened when I was doing something I've always done and was doing comfortably prior to when something just hit me from nowhere. I still can't explain it. It was that crazy.

[LacedUp]

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

I googled around and couldn't find a source.

complete bs

[asgarth]

Could be possible and is also in line with the report that joshua hired a sports psychologist (haven't seen a source for that though), but do you have a more credible source than this obscure instagram page?

[sicko]

Once Again...the man has added a Sports Psychologist...that is a RED F#CKING FLAG!

Something is going on, it could be (I THINK IT IS) Anxiety from all the damn pressure that Brits and especially EDDIE put on him. 100% could've been Anxiety Attack and standing and have to wait for 3 National Anthems to conclude as well as Michael Buffer's LONG Introductions those things only make things worse. Ruiz was jumping around staying loose looking extremely Confident while AJ wasn't moving around he was just standing in his corner sweating and playing with his mouthpiece

Just never looked right and that is no excuse for him but something was off Indeed

[Motorcity Cobra]

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.

That's nothing compared to fighting in America at the Mecca of boxing with the whole world watching. He was doped during the interviews that's why everybody was saying he was acting weird before the fight.

Understand the pressure he was under.

Forced by Hearn & DAZN to fight here.

The success of DAZN & Matchroom USA/UK being on him.

Knowing his loss would end Hearn's "empire", which Hearn himself said.

AJ can't handle that type of pressure. He can't handle Wilder confronting him in the ring. He can't handle Miller making yo mama jokes.