AJ injured in car crash

[Taansend]

Joshua's uncle said in an interview that he's told the family he's retired.

Fair play to him & all the best for the future AJ.

He's got a couple of kids, doesn't he?

https://www.BS.com/articles/an ... er-tragedy

[MasterG]

That's the news report. Fair decision.

We'll never know the answer now, and Fury will never know either.

[Controversial]

Joshua's uncle said in an interview that he's told the family he's retired.

Fair play to him & all the best for the future AJ.

He's got a couple of kids, doesn't he?

https://www.BS.com/articles/anthony-jos ... er-tragedy

I’m not sure this has been confirmed, seems to be doing the rounds though but could just be fake news or click bait. Another report says his uncle said he’s considering retiring. I wouldn’t blame him if he did though

[dookus]

Can't blame any boxer for retiring (unless you're a total príck like Jeff Powell) but especially not after a tragedy like that. That and who knows what physical and neurological effects the crash will leave behind? If this is the end, fair play and thanks for all the excitement, AJ.

[gilgamesh]

That's the news report. Fair decision.

We'll never know the answer now, and Fury will never know either.

If he retires without ever having fought the fight. Fury is forever better.

That being said, If I just made 90 Mil to beat up a No Hoper, and then 2 of my buddies died not even a week later in a Fatal Car crash that I was involved in. I don't think I'd want to continue fighting either.

Hell fighting is probably the least of his problems right now honestly. That whole thing is surely a very traumatic thing to have gone through, and I wish him the best in dealing with all of that.

[Taansend]

That's the news report. Fair decision.

We'll never know the answer now, and Fury will never know either.

If he retires without ever having fought the fight. Fury is forever better.

We'll have to disagree on that one

[Ruthless-RKO]

His uncle is saying he hopes he retires

[gilgamesh]

That's the news report. Fair decision.

We'll never know the answer now, and Fury will never know either.

If he retires without ever having fought the fight. Fury is forever better.

We'll have to disagree on that one

Yeah they're not separated by much. If Fury suffers a few embarrassing KO defeats AJ may be able to overtake him without doing anything, but I can't imagine Fury would lose more than once without retiring again.

[mickey1975]

That's the news report. Fair decision.

We'll never know the answer now, and Fury will never know either.

If he retires without ever having fought the fight. Fury is forever better.

We'll have to disagree on that one

Was it the Charles Martin win that swung it for you?

[gilgamesh]

Between the 2 of them. AJ won more impressively usually. Fury won more often.

[MasterG]

That's the news report. Fair decision.

We'll never know the answer now, and Fury will never know either.

If he retires without ever having fought the fight. Fury is forever better.

That being said, If I just made 90 Mil to beat up a No Hoper, and then 2 of my buddies died not even a week later in a Fatal Car crash that I was involved in. I don't think I'd want to continue fighting either.

Hell fighting is probably the least of his problems right now honestly. That whole thing is surely a very traumatic thing to have gone through, and I wish him the best in dealing with all of that.

AJ won't be in any frame of mind in the next 2 or 3 years to get serious about training. Imo it would be foolish for him to face Fury next, or even anytime soon after.

Fury will have his number now. AJ just needs to retire and take a long deserved holiday.

[gilgamesh]

And if he can't do it within the next 2 or 3 years. Just don't do it at all.

It's the the greatest British Heavyweight Domestic Fight ever, and we ain't gonna get it. Damn shame, but that's the way the cookie crumbles.

At this point in their careers though, maybe it's better that it just doesn't happen. In all likelihood it would never live up to the hype, and the big event we envision in our heads at this stage in their careers, but we can always imagine what would've happened, and it'll remain a topic of debate in British Boxing circles for a long while.

[mickey1975]

I hope it doesn't ever happen now.

[handsofstone]

I hope it doesn't ever happen now.

Neither of them deserve the payday, taking the punters for mugs, it's just a poverty Mayweather/Pacquiao, id rather watch Jake Paul fight retired UFC fighters every 4 months for the next 6 years than see either Fury or Joshua finally find their balls

[Taansend]

If he retires without ever having fought the fight. Fury is forever better.

We'll have to disagree on that one

Was it the Charles Martin win that swung it for you?

Swung what, Mickey?

[coneye]

Terrible accident , think we all agree on that , Tragic to los 2 freinds and be part of the accident what cost them there lifes , We ci think would all agree on that , BUT realisticly the guy has millions in the bank , he has a succesful company which will probably only keep growing ,he had that lot before the accident but he still wanted to box

So really whats changed why would an accident cause him to retire , if theres any injuries which are serious enough to derail his boxing fair enough, if there serious enough to delay his return fair enough , but other than that , why should he , Ok he might need a couple months to get his head together after losing a couple of freinds , but heh, ,

My mother died i did'nt retire , at the age where lots of freinds have died , i'm talking people who been freinds for 50 plus years we get over it , if i was still working i would'nt retire because of it , I know they died and he was there , traumatic for sure , but about 35 years ago , going to the builders yard in my lunch hr i came across on a lonely road an accident , car rolled over , a woman screeming a bloke on the side of the road in a daze did'nt know wher he was , and a child in the upside down car , , I crawled inside the car unstuck his seat belt and pulled the DEAD child out , yep he was dead , it was very traumatic for a while i was continually sad , could'nt help but think, did i contribute by pulling him out.

the minds a great thing i never now think about it , sort of blocked it out , and have done for probably 34.5 years after the initial 6 months or so of thinking wish i never come across it , wish i never pulled him out .

Point is i never ever contemplated retiring , and if he was,nt going to before why should he now , take some time of for sure , but go hide in the bedroom moping about , wishing he was never there , will do him more harm than good . Nows the time to work harder keep the mind active ,

But no doubt he will employ expensive phsycologist to tell him what to do

[Controversial]

Terrible accident , think we all agree on that , Tragic to los 2 freinds and be part of the accident what cost them there lifes , We ci think would all agree on that , BUT realisticly the guy has millions in the bank , he has a succesful company which will probably only keep growing ,he had that lot before the accident but he still wanted to box

So really whats changed why would an accident cause him to retire , if theres any injuries which are serious enough to derail his boxing fair enough, if there serious enough to delay his return fair enough , but other than that , why should he , Ok he might need a couple months to get his head together after losing a couple of freinds , but heh, ,

My mother died i did'nt retire , at the age where lots of freinds have died , i'm talking people who been freinds for 50 plus years we get over it , if i was still working i would'nt retire because of it , I know they died and he was there , traumatic for sure , but about 35 years ago , going to the builders yard in my lunch hr i came across on a lonely road an accident , car rolled over , a woman screeming a bloke on the side of the road in a daze did'nt know wher he was , and a child in the upside down car , , I crawled inside the car unstuck his seat belt and pulled the DEAD child out , yep he was dead , it was very traumatic for a while i was continually sad , could'nt help but think, did i contribute by pulling him out.

the minds a great thing i never now think about it , sort of blocked it out , and have done for probably 34.5 years after the initial 6 months or so of thinking wish i never come across it , wish i never pulled him out .

Point is i never ever contemplated retiring , and if he was,nt going to before why should he now , take some time of for sure , but go hide in the bedroom moping about , wishing he was never there , will do him more harm than good . Nows the time to work harder keep the mind active ,

But no doubt he will employ expensive phsycologist to tell him what to do

That’ sounded horrific for you. I guess the big difference is AJ is a multi millionaire so could’ve retired years ago if he wanted to, for the average person we have no choice but to carry on working as we don’t have the luxury of having millions in the bank.

[coneye]

Terrible accident , think we all agree on that , Tragic to los 2 freinds and be part of the accident what cost them there lifes , We ci think would all agree on that , BUT realisticly the guy has millions in the bank , he has a succesful company which will probably only keep growing ,he had that lot before the accident but he still wanted to box

So really whats changed why would an accident cause him to retire , if theres any injuries which are serious enough to derail his boxing fair enough, if there serious enough to delay his return fair enough , but other than that , why should he , Ok he might need a couple months to get his head together after losing a couple of freinds , but heh, ,

My mother died i did'nt retire , at the age where lots of freinds have died , i'm talking people who been freinds for 50 plus years we get over it , if i was still working i would'nt retire because of it , I know they died and he was there , traumatic for sure , but about 35 years ago , going to the builders yard in my lunch hr i came across on a lonely road an accident , car rolled over , a woman screeming a bloke on the side of the road in a daze did'nt know wher he was , and a child in the upside down car , , I crawled inside the car unstuck his seat belt and pulled the DEAD child out , yep he was dead , it was very traumatic for a while i was continually sad , could'nt help but think, did i contribute by pulling him out.

the minds a great thing i never now think about it , sort of blocked it out , and have done for probably 34.5 years after the initial 6 months or so of thinking wish i never come across it , wish i never pulled him out .

Point is i never ever contemplated retiring , and if he was,nt going to before why should he now , take some time of for sure , but go hide in the bedroom moping about , wishing he was never there , will do him more harm than good . Nows the time to work harder keep the mind active ,

But no doubt he will employ expensive phsycologist to tell him what to do

That’ sounded horrific for you. I guess the big difference is AJ is a multi millionaire so could’ve retired years ago if he wanted to, for the average person we have no choice but to carry on working as we don’t have the luxury of having millions in the bank.

True but does touch on my point , at that time i was no where near in a position to retire ,but even if i was i would not off for that reason . AJ if it was on his mind could off retired years ago , he obviously is /was not ready ,

Always said tongue in cheek , but with a bit of seriousness behind it , when you get a great / good fighter cut them open at death , have a good look and you will find something in there , hidden away that seperates them from us , average mortals , AJ's desire is strong, to go through what he does , profesionaly and personaly takes a speciel sort of person , more so when he had the means to not do so,and this applys to all the great athletes , and buisnessmen , thats why i think this accident may derail his comeback for a while, but it will not stop it ,

At 55 i had 2 heart attacks followed by a triple by pass , , when i woke after the by pass , my missis was there and said thank god your back , i looked at her and said , why where the fook you think i've been , she said you been in a coma for 7-8 days , they just brought you round , my answer was bullshit , she said no straight up .

I thought about it for about 30 seconds and said , you know what that means , what she said , i said 1 i'm buying that new harley i wanted , and 2 they can stick work up there arse , and that was it i retired , now unless AJ has had a life changing moment like that , i'm sure he will be back , I was lucky i had a few investment propertys to sell and retire on , but AJ has had the money for years , i just don't think its in him to retire yet ,or he would off done it .

But like i said the minds a great thing , i find now i actually think about that accident a bit more than i ever did before , for a while i could'nt help but think did i do the right thing , did i help kill the kid , would he off lived if i did'nt do it , and too be honest , a lot was blurred i could'nt remember if the car was upside down or on its side , hows that 35 years later and too be honest i still don't know , what i do know is there was one guy his car smashed he was in a daze , there was the mother her car totalled and screaming for help , , and i know the petrol line had crimped and was spraying petrol mist in the air , i was scared the kid would go in flames so that why i climbed in , grabbed him, and pulled him out , It was'nt much longer others had stopped the distraught mother gave me a phone num to ring her husband , no mobiles in them days , i left the scene went hme rang the number the daughter happenned to answer , i told her to get her dad and go to the hospital , had a shower got the petrol off clean clothes then went back to work picked my son up who was on the job and went hme , on the way back i asked the cop directing traffic how the young boy was , he told me he was dead on arrival died in the ambulance , he did'nt i looked into his eyes on the floor wide open and i knew he was dead ,

35 or so years later and guess what this is the most i've ever spoke about it , like i said the minds a great thing it blocks this shit out . AJ will seperate this from his ambitions , like i said he is not finished on his treck yet if he was he would'nt off been training

[evrenb]

Work is the best pain killer.

[coneye]

Work is the best pain killer.

Man of few words ... You just said in 6 words what i'd take a full chapter to say LOL , AND I AGREE 100%

[Boxerbeetle]

Definitely something to be said for keeping busy as a pain killer, as long as it’s a job you don’t mind doing. Can’t imagine working in a call centre bringing much solace to anyone, but I guess boxing would fit the bill, keeps both body and mind active.

Having said that, if I was AJ, I’d definitely retire with my millions.

[stujones]

Definitely something to be said for keeping busy as a pain killer, as long as it’s a job you don’t mind doing. Can’t imagine working in a call centre bringing much solace to anyone, but I guess boxing would fit the bill, keeps both body and mind active.

Having said that, if I was AJ, I’d definitely retire with my millions.

Yes and back to a pure boxing level and spending more time to reflect on his last fight. That performance certainly continues to suggest he has seen better days quite clearly. People might say he wasn’t trying, but he was struggling to catch Paul until Jake gassed and was also taking too many of those telegraphed overhang shots. He didn’t look like he made any adjustments since the Dubois fight.

[coneye]

Definitely something to be said for keeping busy as a pain killer, as long as it’s a job you don’t mind doing. Can’t imagine working in a call centre bringing much solace to anyone, but I guess boxing would fit the bill, keeps both body and mind active.

Having said that, if I was AJ, I’d definitely retire with my millions.

Yes and back to a pure boxing level and spending more time to reflect on his last fight. That performance certainly continues to suggest he has seen better days quite clearly. People might say he wasn’t trying, but he was struggling to catch Paul until Jake gassed and was also taking too many of those telegraphed overhang shots. He didn’t look like he made any adjustments since the Dubois fight.

In that regard its too late for AJ boxing is about muscle memory , AJ moves trainers too much to have it instilled in him , one hard punch and he reverts back to type , the good AJ under Mckracken faded a long time ago , the yes men , u tube trainers , and non boxing people he surrounds himself with have all failed to spot , and fix his mistakes with constant practice and muscle memory , . FIGHTING LIKE A BIG STIFF ROBOT SHOULD OFF BEEN TOOK OUT OF HIM YEARS AGO , still he has power . He can train with Usyk all he wants but Usyk has been doing it with his team forever , there never going to change AJ in a short time

[tannervegas]

I hope it doesn't ever happen now.

Same, it’s well past its sell by date.

[evrenb]

Work is the best pain killer.

Man of few words ... You just said in 6 words what i'd take a full chapter to say LOL , AND I AGREE 100%