ANTHONY JOSHUA is too “frail” to beat Deontay Wilder or Tyson Fury, according to Glenn McCrory.
AJ beat Andy Ruiz Jr to reclaim his belts in a rematch on Saturday night but former cruiserweight champ McCrory thinks he’d struggle against the big boys.
Glenn McCrory thinks Anthony Joshua is too frail to beat Deontay Wilder
Speaking after the fight, McCrory was scathing about Ruiz and critical of AJ for making “a little fat fella look like Rocky Marciano”.
McCrory told TalkSport: “I see it in two ways.
“One, he did what he had to do to win and pick up the £60million.
“He boxed excellently, used great movement and his jab was good.
“But on the other hand, he made Andy Ruiz Jr look like Rocky Marciano. He made an ordinary fighter look dangerous.
“At the end of the day, he was in the ring with a little fat bloke.
“I’m not taking too much away from Ruiz Jr, but he was badly out of shape and Joshua made him look like some sort of monster.”
Clearly not impressed by the Mexican-American, McCrory continued taking pot shots at AJ.
He added: “There looked to be so much frailty around Joshua; any time he got in close quarters he grabbed, because it looked like he would get hurt at any time.
“I thought he’d pepper him with a jab, step in and take him out, but his confidence didn’t look there.
“Any time they came close he tied them up. He wasn’t in with a super danger man!
“If you weren’t a boxing fan and you looked at the TV screen, you would say ‘is this a joke?’
“You’ve got one super athlete at 6ft 6in and one fella who is badly out of shape, and yet the big fella is all over the ring and running away, running away, running away.”
He added: “I want to give him credit, it was a beautiful boxing display… but are you going to do that with Deontay Wilder?
“For me, Tyson Fury looks way better, and do not even go near Wilder because he’ll get knocked out.
“Fight fans will want it, and Joshua doesn’t shirk a challenge so hopefully he’ll take a fight like that, but it’s then we’ll find out if he’s back and whether he can claim greatness.
“It’s when he goes in with somebody like Wilder when we’ll find out his true measure and where he will stand in heavyweight history.”
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Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
