Shout out to Fred. He been calling it all week (even though I know he was hating )
I think trying to put on a big performance in America and wanting to equal Wilder's destruction of Breazeale made him rush in a little too quickly when he dropped Ruiz...this was a fight where he had to keep it nice and boring until Ruiz tires out...a boring win would have been better than this humiliation....I see tons of problems for AJ in the rematch too....this wasn't like when Lennox got KTFO a couple times with a single shot...thats getting sloppy and getting caught...tonight AJ got his ass kicked...he is going to have to do some mental magic to overcome that
On the flip side...thats what i thought it was...add that to taking a replacement you really didnt prepare for. I think AJ takes the rematch though comfortably
They put him with a sports psychologist before the fight.
Ruiz had a great game plan tonight. Props to andy