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False wrote:Close but harsh one for ball there

False wrote:I’ve always understood it as the challenger has to bring the fight to the holder if it’s a close one, and it certainly seemed that way in the second half to me

I think the only way you get a tied score is if you discard the knockdown but you can’t just go off piste, if the ref declares it a down it’s a down

Drumstick wrote:I think AJ's rep has taken a couple of hits; 1) his obsession with fighting in Saudi Arabia and not in front of his own fans, 2) the fact that he was quite gun-shy for a few fights after the Ruiz loss. Both of these have seen him lose a bit of his shine with the public. He gets flack from me on the first point only, not the second.

Lotus wrote:

Drumstick wrote:I think AJ's rep has taken a couple of hits; 1) his obsession with fighting in Saudi Arabia and not in front of his own fans, 2) the fact that he was quite gun-shy for a few fights after the Ruiz loss. Both of these have seen him lose a bit of his shine with the public. He gets flack from me on the first point only, not the second.

Isn't AJ a massive racist as well? Feel like that can't help his likeability, although people do seem to like to make excuses for him on that.

Slightly surprised that the fight looked so easy, but Ngannou is ultimately an amateur boxer, and it showed. Boxing's such a joke - why is one of the top HWs in the world going up against an amateur? It's just money and sportswashing with zero credibility.

Racism controversies
Joshua made a set of comments and social media posts relating to race in November 2017, which led to press controversy. He called heavyweight boxer Eddie Chambers a "disgrace to the superior black race" on Instagram. Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn said the message came from a fake account, but the false claim was debunked when Chambers proved that it had indeed been sent from Joshua's verified account.[249][250][251]

Joshua later appeared to voice support for Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe on Snapchat.[252][253][254] Hearn subsequently stated Joshua has "got a major problem with his social media accounts" and suggested the accounts may have been hacked.[254]

In June 2020, Joshua was accused of racism by some social media users for his speech at a Black Lives Matter protest in Watford, where he said "show them where it hurts, abstain from spending your money in their shops and economies, and invest in black-owned businesses." Press reports indicated that "some" had interpreted this as racist and amounting to a call to boycott white businesses.[255][256] In response, he said the speech was not his own and that he had only read it out on behalf of a friend. He also said, "If you think I'm a racist, go f*** yourself."[257][258]

Albert wrote:So can someone help me understand why did Fury struggle so much when Joshua just took him apart? Was Fury just not fit?

Is AJ now able to step up to someone like Usyk or was Ngannou just that poor?