Who’s he been in with and stopped who are elite world fighters ?He doesn't struggle against fighters his own height though, he's much more comfortable with that. That was the whole reason he wasn't comfortable against Povetikin in the first half of the fight and even more so against Ruiz Jr(who has arguably the best chin at heavyweight). Are people forgetting who Joshua has already been in with and stopped? Someone even questioning AJ's punching power? Laughable.
It looked to me as though he had been working on changing levels for shorter fighters but even in this fight he still hasn't quite got the hang of it. He got clipped whenever he was trying to crouch to his level and engage. Personally, I think this was a gameplan he was working on to get a stoppage win but maybe there wasn't enough time to add this to his arsenal to the level required, for a fighter like Ruiz Jr. He ended up sticking with what was working, keeping him at range and controlling the distance, banking the rounds for a points win. He looked surprisingly graceful and fluid in his movement to me, for what so called experts were describing as a robotic body builder.
Only a 40 year old vlad who was damaged goods after fury gave him a boxing lesson even then he very nearly popped Joshua out . He went points with a very average Joseph Parker who has turned out to be well not so good . He struggled with old man povetkin until stamina caught up with the Russian . Carlos takam Dominic breazeale and the great Charles Martin . World class ? Do me a favour . His best fight was against dillian whyte but I don’t see him fighting for a rematch with him . Joshua has a good win on Saturday but not really great was it ...