He hasn't but this fight he looked like a totally different fighter. If you go to youtube, you see plenty of conspiracy theories out there of him throwing the fight.........I just don't see him doing that. I think the way he was acting, fighting and post fight, he just didn't seem like himself at all.
No way he threw the fight. He could have made a fortune (billion dollars was predicted) as an unbeaten fighter taking out all the big names and then living off that for the rest of his life, so it's not going to be money. And not sure what other reason he would throw a fight but I'm not giving traffic to conspiracy theories. Getting slightly concussed in training would at least make sense, as would his camp just totally underestimating Ruiz. Post fight he hasn't been KO'd before so you'd expect him to seem different. From the 3rd round onwards in fact.
Agreed. I think he totally underestimated Ruiz, who has incredible hand speed for a guy his size. Have you heard the rumor of him being knocked out cold in sparring? If that's the case, then I can totally see why he wasn't himself. I don't think they'd cancel the fight on such short notice for his big American debut, even if he was. They probably thought he could take him regardless and we see what happened.
They definitely underestimated him, as most people probably did. One of my friends did call it though, which is the 3rd unpredictable result he has called recently. His hand speed was very impressive, as well as his resilience/chin. Makes sense that they wouldn't cancel unless it was something obviously major. I think the fact Ruiz had already been in a training camp before the rearrangement helped his progress, and also hindered Joshua's camp who were training to go up against a fighter closer in size. Also I don't remember if Joshua has experience of taking on anyone similar to Ruiz but fighting that style of boxer and one who is significantly shorter needs to be focused on in training when you have ideal prep.
I guess no one GGG was fighting last night huh?
I guess no one GGG was fighting last night huh?
First fight I get people thinking it's close but the second fight between GGG and Canelo was not close. In my eyes Canelo clearly beat GGG. I'm not saying people don't want to see Canelo fight GGG but there are other fights to be had out there. Why doesn't GGG fight Billy Joe Saunders or Andrade or Charlo? Why does he get to fight Canelo three times? I can't blame Oscar De Lay Hoya at all this time.
That is not saying "something stupid". That his mindset, that he has put out there multiple times.
I'm not here to excuse him for some of his behavior.
