Boxing Fans Rationalization Theory

[TitoFan]

By my calculations, by next week it'll be discovered that Joshua had a secret meeting several weeks ago with a long lost distant cousin, who introduced AJ to Ahimsa, a non-violence form of yoga.

The week after that rumors will surface that in the days leading up to the fight, Joshua was abducted by aliens, who as part of their human experiments sapped AJ of his strength.

[El Kabong]

Which stage of grief are we at then? Denial? Denying that AJ could be beaten by Ruiz....you know, just beaten like AJ was fine and fought dumb and got beat, we're (boxing fans as a whole) denying that just happened?

[El Kabong]

So I guess next expect...

2. Anger - That no good worthless AJ or Ruiz ruined everything!

3. Bargaining - If AJ could only get the right trainer and be 100% focused

4. Depression - he could have been great!

5. Acceptance - Well he is what he is, no changing that.

[Batman]

People that I have spoke with (outside of the interwebz) do accept it, yeah he didn't look right but he was easy beat and there was no controversy at all, I've long said that AJ getting beat might do him good but I wasn't expecting it to come in a 7 round beat down.

Never been a fan of him but it still shocked me.