That could very well be the case @J_Undisputed Ruiz I know AJ floored Wlad who got back up to floor AJ a round later but in the very same round Ruiz hops up and floors AJ TWICE and if the round was 10 seconds longer Ruiz would have stopped him right then and there!
Maybe that is it, Ruiz recovered so quickly, AJ went to finish it and little did he know Ruiz had other plans. The praise for Ruiz should be on not only his getting up and knocking AJ down twice, but his taking his time after that and staying within himself once the momentum shifted in his favor and THAT is professional even if he rode out a decision, but it's brilliant he got the stoppage.
Forall those "AJ had a panic attack" people, I don't buy it. I think hurt fighters can panic and that eats up your stamina because your breathing changes, you start gulping air like a fish out of water, your heart is racing, you basically redline your engine and you seize up you can't move your legs, your body (via orders from your brain) has betrayed you (I think that is probably what happened to Wlad vs Brewster when he collapsed or ANY time Andrew Golota got rocked early in a fight when you see his eyes get all WIDE he instantly went into panic mode)...that too could have been the case for AJ, but "panic attack" that is bullshit he would have been curled up in a ball weeping or catatonic or would have run out of the ring like a sprinter or he would have pulled an Oliver McCall which I think is more what happened with him vs Lennox in the rematch. So panic YES panic attack not so much.
IF AJ panicked the good news is there is hope that can be fixed. Utilizing systematic desensitization AJ can acclimate himself to increasing levels of anxiety and gain more control of how he responds to those things (to an extent). Bad news is: how does one do that when what gets to him might be getting smacked in the head really hard?
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