After Ruiz had one month of preparation after miller dropped out, joshua didn't win a single round against ruiz.
Ruiz's low, compact, short punching style gave joshua fits. He didn't have any answers at all. He couldn't find a way to effectively get through his guard, he could'nt find away to keep ruiz from getting on the inside, and ruiz was mandhandling him the entire fight.
Now Ruiz has all the momentum, had a full training camp and knows he has the power to hurt him.
AJ just had his first loss, and before he had time to recover mentally, hearn's dumb ass put him right back in with the guy who sonned him lol
I am picking Ruiz but I am not as sure he will win as you are, AJ is still a very good fighter with good hand speed and power and who knows if Ruiz will get a fair fight with no weird stuff from the ref or the scoring?
Amazing that some can't see what's right in front of them. Joshua pretty much LOST every round. He lost the round he knocked Ruiz down 10-8 (after getting dropped himself twice in the follow-up). Ruiz was cutting off the ring all night. Joshua was very uncomfortable being "hunted", and when he came forward and threw punches he kept getting countered and out-punched (he did land some nice scoring blows here and there).
He got Ruiz's respect and attention a few times, but never enough to slow or put fear into Ruiz, .... who then continued cutting off the ring and "hunting" Joshua. Then when they really engaged, Joshua kept getting the worst of it ... and ultimately dropped ... time after time.
Rounds 4 and 5 they both pretty much took the round off ... AJ recovering, Ruiz resting from so many punches. Ruiz never took off against Dimitrenko, he tired from so many punches vs AJ ... probably from taking the fight so soon after.
Go re-watch the fight. It's as plain as your nose.
I agree, Ruiz dominated the fight besides the chaotic moments when he was dropped, but he reigned control shortly after and hurt AJ severely. Horrible style match up for AJ and I can't believe Hearn didn't let AJ get a tune up fight (maybe scared it would backfire again and better to just cash him out) after being clearly concussed. I'm actually worried for the guy once Ruiz starts dropping him again, he probably should've taken off a year from boxing for his health's sake.
There's some idiots on here who argue that AJ was boxing beautifully (LOL!) in the whopping frist two rounds and was just caught by a lucky punch. Those first two rounds were feel out rounds that Ruiz was clearly winning anyways. Only person who got lucky was AJ with that flash knockdown that only angered the bull.
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