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Defo recommend catching it on YouTube. Really good fight.

Just watching it on YouTube now. Nice KD in R1. Body/head combo

I didn't see it but I'm schocked by the result. At 40 he shouldn't be able to beat a 30 year old champ at the top of his game. Big respect to Mani! If he now beats Khan and one other name he's really put the icing on thr legacy cake.

There's plenty of body to aim for for Whyte! Hmmm...5 months for AJ to regain his mojo... as I said, the reach and power are already there. Just use the buggers this time! But if it's a serious headspace problem, and not just an offnight, then who knows how he'll get on. Re AJ, warning signs were there against Parker and Takam. He didn't really rise to those challenges as we expected. I sometimes wonder if instinctive violence is his comfort zone and he's best off not trying to think his way through fights. That's not to say he isn't smart because clearly he is relatively intelligent and articulate, but some fighters aren't great at the duality of battle mode and chess player mode, like Fury or Lennox arguably can/could. Maybe he's better keeping it simple; use your reach, hammer the jab, and bash em with the big right when it feel right. Sorry, brainspew over...

Funnily enough, I'm not an AJ disciple, and if anything more enamoured with Fury, especially now that he's cleaned his act up. But being as objective as I can, I think an on song Joshua beats an up for it Ruiz jr. Do you think Ruiz Jr beat Whyte?

That's really interesting. I agree re his inside fighting, and he must improve on that front (although leopards rarely change their spots eg imagine how much better Khan's career been had he learned how to slip and stifle defensively a la Floyd?!). Let's continue this conversation if/when the rematch comes along. There will be a lot of debate about that one.

On your 1st point, let's not foget that AJ, for all his pointless pawing in rounds one and two, did land a big punch and put Ruiz down in the third. Had it not been for a split second of carelessness, he conceivably would have gone on to get the stoppage. Fine margins. So AJ knows that next time he has to stay switched on and to hammer his jab with intensity. He just needs to remind himself of fundamentals to dispose of Ruiz jr. I think he wins a rematch without too much drama. Beyond that though, I totally agree that he is missing some things in his skillset and would really benefit from mentorship from Lennox Lewis (who I reckon would be up for that).

I'm intrigued by Barry Hearn's comments (BBC): "The only doubt I would say is that boxing is a strange business and you never know what happens in terms of we have an agreement in place, but sometimes we have to make sure that agreement is honoured." So what are Haymon's options? Could Ruiz be paid off to vacate and therefore ipen up the division? Is there any other way that Ruiz does not fulfil his contractual obligation?

I'm a bit upset that London resident Joe Bryan hasn't made the effort to attend. He should be in the away end!

Unbeaten all season so far

This was always gonna be a tough game

Flint backpass leads to goal!

Can anyone describe the goal please?

Okay, it was worth it for the finish.

It's descending into a pub fight

commentators way too complimentary of their man Whyte. He's shown zero finesse. Both fighters seemed to be heavily fatigued early on. Not a classic so far but a close fight with Whyte most likely now

Parker has boxed nicely, but he seems tired

Home crowd + early cut gave Selby a real uphill struggle but it must be said, he evidently abandoned his game plan because there was no real sense to his approach therein. I actually had it close but Selby will be kicking himself for not implementing some stick and move.

Was just about to go a bit further and suggest we haven't had Joey looking magic since the United game.

Bobby was Premiership class

I think Wednesday need to rethink the tactic of not closing down defenders. It allows the opposition time on the ball at the back and stops them being able to keep any momentum going. Clearly something that they coach as they didn't adapt until last 20. They also rarely managed to pass around our high press. LJ had done his homework.

Very good away performance. Nullified very good players with hard graft and discipline. Didn't quite have the killer instinct to score.

Why did Djuric get high praise on radio but criticised by fans? Paterson wouldn't shut up about how good he was playing.

I thought Fammy and Callum O'Domah (the new Albert) had good games

Totally agree mate