The Wlad that lost to AJ would've crushed Fury like a cheap tin can

[Gandalf]

Yeah great going forward , clearly had put the effort in a wanted to win

Just bottled it when punches came back

Did aj even land in the first knock down?

He certainly landed in the 11th. That was a brutal array of punches he took.

He landed a couple in the 11th, uppercut was good

Name me a significant hw champ ever that wouldn't have weathered that

That's why James Toney should never be mocked. Nothing AJ threw would have bothered James Toney. He would have weathered it with ease, stuck his tongue out in cheeky defiance and countered several times too. Wlad doesn't seem to know what to do when a fighter unleashes combinations. I guess he knows that chin cannot take it, so he gets flustered while it happens. Doesn't really throw anything back when pressed like that.