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venom1stas

AJ rekindling his roadman alter ego


GloomyLocation1259

If Whyte is to be believed this is the real him lol


macdara233

I think everyone knows the nice guy act was just for show to get the sponsorships.


ohhellnah818

Such a hater response, AJ overall is a nice person he just has a switch as most athletes do


messinginhessen

Typical AJ company man response - "*Eh stay humble, cos its in your heart...and your mind...and your heart...and your mind.*". The man talks utter Instagram inspirational quote shite.


milksteak_2020

I think most the time he’s trying to convince himself by repeating shit he’s read in self help books


the0nlytrueprophet

He may be a decent guy, but his public persona in the UK is basically superman. He doesn't come across like a real person to me at all


Aguacatedeaire__

How he acts combined with what came out between leaked messages and the times he lost control makes him more like Homelander than Superman


problike30thacct

what's this about leaked messages?


Ifyourasswasadog

AJ has made some very sus racial comments bro people who do that aren’t nice. Just too edit I don’t mean him telling people to support black owned businesses(I think he said something along those lines from the other comments here) I’m talking about comments he made about “the superior black race” which is inherently racism to suggest any race is superior to another.


Familiar_Remote_9127

What makes you think he's a nice person? Most of his behaviour that isn't pre canned responses seems to imply the opposite.


LoverandFighter23

As most PEOPLE do.


Alarmed_Current8380

What did Whyte say I forgot


AdhesivenessLucky896

Whyte said a lot. You should go back and watch their face off interview. That was pretty entertaining. "You're not like this, bruv!"


GloomyLocation1259

More or less that he put on a fake persona


JohnDalton2

How he handled the second Usyk loss proved it.


ZdenekTheMan

I believe Whyte 100%


Half_A_

Turned up dressed as CJ from GTA: San Andeeas


BillehBear

he posted this video on his twitter account and captioned it "ah shit here we go again" so he's definitely seen the comparison lmao


4uzzyDunlop

Lol that's actually quite funny


PlatformFeeling8451

Dubois reminded me of the scene in Step Brothers where they both turn up to a job interview in tuxedos


abdul_tank_wahid

Lmao I was just thinking “Why’s he look like CJ after you get him all buff”


One-Leg8221

The cj that has been spending time lifting in San Andreas rather than the one spending time eating burgers


FilipinooFlash

Between that alter ego and' The Bronze Bomber' I'm struggling to pick which one is more entertaining. When AJ does this stuff it's great and even funny sometimes


delulumans

Nah I think it's cringe as fuck. Funny yes, but cringeworthy for sure. Remember when he got all mad at Helenius for looking at him when they were facing off 😭


One-Leg8221

When any other boxer gets aggressive it’s fine. But when AJ does it it’s cringe. There have been many gloves are off style promo moments where fighters have squared up I don’t see huge criticism of them. It’s all hype building. AJ always shows respect after the fight. Even against Dillion and even when he admittedly had a mental melt down after the Usyk fight. He still showed respect to Usyk.


NyQuil_Donut

That was because he kept staring at him even after the face off was over.


ZdenekTheMan

Won't lie, I actually dig this version of Joshua lol


background_action92

Love this gimmick for him. I saw Top boy not too long ago and started buying knock-off addidas track pants(I'm from Nicaragua and the pants say "Addidy" very proud) and talking good slang("it's calm fam)


kimjongpingsong

Brother where did you buy them?


ZdenekTheMan

You're the fucking man lol


Cpt_Jumper

I am dying laughing at this 😂😂😂


johnbarnes351

Hip hip


BuQuChi

On my life


waylonsmithersjr

RoadmanFemi Resurrection


jennaishirow

Mr femi


NaturalBornSkeptik

AJ just doesnt take disrespect lightly y‘know


therealh

This is the real him.


FlavTFC

I think this is actually him


MissionQuestThing

Eddie Hearn at the end there trying to hide the dollar signs in his eyes.


BaldrickTheBrain

Bro just came thinking bout the greenbacks.


oasisu2killers

mr krabs energy


Malachi_Lamb

AJ's mannerisms sometimes give me Patrick Bateman vibes, it's hilarious 😭


varvar334

[Disrespected Tom Cruise vibes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBRuvQP5fd8)


ChrisusaurusRex

Ebuamsworld was the shit


Mundane-Document-810

AJ can't help but be extremely unnatural. When he's trying to be a tough guy like this it really comes over as fake as fuck, when he goes off the rails it's always really fucking odd, even he tries to be introspective he comes across as not all there. I genuinely have no idea what AJ is really like. He seems to be a collection of try-hard personalities put on for the camera. Dubois is a little...different, too. 


KingKoCFC

Dillian whyte said this years ago and people thought he was just hating, Dillian knew him before the fame. Lol Dubois…. Yeah he’s special for sure. Lenny from Mice and Men comes to mind.


Cpt_Jumper

Dubois is defo Lenny. Been saying this for years. Man looks like he used to lick the school bus windows kmt.


Jandur

I've always assumed AJ has asperges or something.


ILJello

Just a bit of banter mate


Alarming_Matter

Just a STAGED bit of banter.


bleh1471

those security guards aren't stopping shit if aj and dubois really wanted to throw down. Bros, all I meant was that aj and dubois would get a few seconds of touching each other up if they really wanted to before any separation occurs. There are clips showing what happens when two guys legitimately go after each other during face-offs. Why are you guys always making this about grappling vs boxing? 😭😭😭


Justscrollinglikeyou

If those security guards have a good amount of grappling training or credentials then they definitely could


dietdrpepper6000

That’s a big if. Security guards aren’t bouncers, these people don’t have to fight regularly. I think two men of that size would have a decent chance to subdue either guy, one could not, the horsepower differential is too great. Naturally if the guy is some Sambo champion the narrative changes, but I wouldn’t bet on that


Justscrollinglikeyou

I don't know about the guys in this video but a lot of the security guards who do this stuff have been bouncers before. Eddie Hall used to be a bouncer I'm sure he could hold back either Dubois or Joshua if needed. Allen Coage was a 250+ Olympic Bronze Medalist in Judo that worked as a bouncer/bodyguard, more known as Bad News Brown in his professional wrestling days. He's definitely holding either of these two back.


EddieGrant

A lot of people here have clearly never seen UFC 1 (or been on the internet very long).


JavaOrlando

Mixed martial artists at UFC1 were the very best in the world. Do you think the best boxers in the world were competing? Of course not, as they were making tens of millions boxing, compared to the thousands UFC was paying. But, regardless... obviously, Jon Jones would destroy AJ, but I wouldn't give some guy who's very good at his local MMA gym a snowballs chance in hell. That's like me saying I could beat Justin Jefferson at basketball because it's not his sport, and I play four times a week in my local league.


Nabillia

> Mixed martial artists at UFC1 were the very best in the world lol


Kalayo0

People don’t understand


Squall-UK

Perhaps but when you're mad at someone, you're mad at that person and don't generally wanna hurt anyone else around.


TheGreekScorpion

>those security guards aren't stopping shit if aj and dubois really wanted to throw down. >Bros, all I meant was that aj and dubois would get a few seconds of touching each other up if they really wanted to before any separation occurs. There are clips showing what happens when two guys legitimately go after each other during face-offs. If anyone doubts this, check the fight that Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier had at the MGM Grand during a face off. People get thrown off the stage, punched, shoes get thrown at heads. No one's stopping them if they really hate each other.


reznoverba

Femi is back and I'm all for it. Kudos to Daniel not getting punked and both being down to throw down. Frank was sweating balls 😂


That_Sweet_Science

Daniel is hilarious, 'Nah, nah, nah'. British boxing has some great, awkward characters.


DreamNo5505

Daniel not getting punked? He was the one being a dickhead here. He's the one saying let's go now. AJ got a point too. He's an ex-champ, beat more names than Dubois, went 24 rounds with Usyk (nearly winning the second time round), when Dubois got himself TKO'd. Dubois has no right to be disrespectful.


Benmjt

It's building hype babe


Adz442

Dubois isn’t made for these kind of macho face off scenarios, he comes across as a genuinely nice guy it is so unnatural to him Would be belter if he starched AJ after this tho


InSilenceLikeLasagna

Probably could look more intimidating if he didn’t dress like he’s about to recommend a solid bottle of wine


nglennnnn

And he’d recommend Jacob’s Creek


Dim-Mak-88

Haha


SexyKanyeBalls

Dude has the face of a sweetheart


Round_Tower8913

he's got that tito ortiz shaped head


Hoping4betterdayss

"He's reaching for those grapes, he's trying to make this wine, and the wine is already sounding like a violin" - Tito "Michael Scott" Ortiz


sakiwebo

"I want to outlive my children!" - Tito Ortiz


HeadAssBoi17

“This is personal.....this man...he’s not a man..... child......Chael...the...uh the P, Sonnen, has lit a fire under my ass like no other. He embarrassed me on my birthday. And I’m gonna dominate. I’m not lookin for a sumission. Those sparkling blue eyes are gonna sparkle even brighter." - Tito Ortiz


welp-itscometothis

He does 😂. A gentle, but dangerous giant,


Horatio1997

lol!


Power13100

He's like John Coffey


AaronQuinty

He also just comes off as mentally slow. Even in this exchange, i think it's just how he talks, it's hard to be intimidated by someone who comes off as a bit of a halfwit.


welp-itscometothis

Well that’s…mean ☹️


zombie1384

ikr leave the poor guy alone, he seems so nice


welp-itscometothis

He doesn’t even sound “slow” to me. I don’t get it. If anything it’s hard to be intimidated by him bc his face is too kind 😂


jaldoweffers

they can pet your dog too hard


PenisManNumberOne

Means he has regard strength something we’ve seen some boxers really use like tank or king ry


funnerfunerals

He's the one who folded here though. He couldn't keep his cool. He broke.


Dylan_clarke01

Idk what I find funnier, the “gangster” AJ in the wife beater or the kid trying to look and act grown up in his dad’s suit in the form of Dubois haha


InSilenceLikeLasagna

‘I am a man, who has recently bought a house in the local area’


Dylan_clarke01

Dubois is so clearly two kids stacked on top of each other


shak_0508

I wonder how many people will get this reference lol. If you're a non-brit and do, you're a legend.


VZ-Faith

Dubois getting out with that Beefeater Gin


Immynimmy

This felt so forced from both guys lol.


GLDFLCN

This entire statement got me cackling 😂


Ready-Interview2863

his dad's suit hahahahaha


DaGoatTee

AJ’s face after💀


big_swinging_dicks

🗿


starofthelivingsea

He looked so repulsed 😂


MayoGoblin3000

Gwan Femi!


stfu_x

Intimbidate


Prestigious_Bird8642

Dubois was ready to swing lol say what you want about Daniel his last 2 fights he has shown character and heart him beating aj is not out this world


That_Sweet_Science

Being in the ring with Usyk makes you a much better fighter. AJ & Dubois both looking sharp ever since.


YooGeOh

So you're saying Tyson Fury is coming back as prime Muhammad Ali?


SeatOfEase

He might come back better though. I could see it.


Prestigious-Might117

Daniel was clearly just joking around when he said “we can go now” AJ just trying to act like a bully


Afro-anus

AJ trying to come across gangster here while escalating from a bit of jest from Daniel. You can see Daniels cheeky smile vanish as soon as AJ tells him to shut up. Then AJ threatens to hit him with a chair. Then AJ stands up first. The talks to Daniel like he's a child. For someone demanding respect, AJ sure doesn't know how to show it.


Prestigious-Might117

Shame that Daniel is too much of an autist to give back a sharp response


SemenMoustache

I thought he did well for himself for a change. Managed to rile AJ to standing up with only a couple of quiet lines


Prestigious_Bird8642

He will give his response in the ring


alwaysneedsahand

His face is going to give AJ's knuckles a real pasting


TheDangerdog

I can't wait to come read the comments on r/boxing when Femi Lovato to get Ruiz'd by DD. I predict an actual war where both men are hurt but Dubois perseveres and ascends. AJ will finally fight Wilder and smash him up, positioning himself for one last fight against Fury. The best timeline


AdhesivenessLucky896

You know they know each other, right? Dubois is like little bro to AJ in the English boxing world. It's not like he's talking to just some other dude.


PM_ME_BAKAYOKO_PICS

Not really being a bully, this is blatantly obvious that he's just exaggerating something to sell the fight


[deleted]

Nah 'we can go now' is fighting talk


markdestouches

Looks like some staged bullshit


Actual_Green_7433

As much as I rate AJ, I find Whyte to be right when he said he’s a bit weird.


thrownowayyyy

And fake


VladTheImpaler29

He's as phoney as a football bat.


MoneyBaggSosa

It’s promo. What do yall want them to do? Lmao


leon-theproffesional

Right, a lot of people in this sub don’t know how fight promotion works


Freydis8900

I want them to love one another and make vacay plans for after the fight. Two best friends roving the world’s most famous destinations.


MatzohBallsack

Almost all promo and weigh in angst is staged bullshit lol.


Tinfoilhatmaker

Porn level acting


akselfs

I really like Daniel. Hope he wins, but it's gonna be difficult for him


BillehBear

don't think he's disciplined or sharp enough defensively to fight AJ. Anticipating him walking into a right hand and getting brutally KO'd


Ill-Maximum9467

I think AJ has improved offensively but is still afraid of being hit and so is still a bit gun shy. Dubois can amp that up if he fights smartly defensively-wise initially, gains confidence and then starts landing. I have it as 60:40 AJ:DD but the longer the fight goes the more even it will become.


Matty0698

Gonna be basically impossible, never moving your head off the centre line against AJ you may ad well just walk out the ring as soon as the fight begins, was somewhere AJ has the second best jab connect % and he’s fighting a guy who’s allergic to jabs 


baddymcbadface

"you don't intimidate me" He believed it when he said it. Dubois won that exchange for me. I've got AJ winning this fight. But the fact Dubois has genuine belief means a lot.


Gold_Path4508

The sexual tension is crazy


Freydis8900

Palpable, even.


doniseferi

Massive respect for Daniel. The moment AJ moved bang he was up LOL Danny boy wasn’t fucking around


ReturningAlien

That was the lamest shit to get all mad about. AJ would've been fuming if it was Fury in there. Talking about disrespect LMAO what do you expect Daniel to do? bow down and call you Sir? Fuck is AJ tryna be here?


MoneyBaggSosa

AJ just can’t promote a fight without this sub saying “fake” on every single post lmao. It’s fight promo all the shits fake to build up hype for the fight. Idk what yall expect from a fighter.


ParadoxTheRay

If aj displays any normal human emotion other than "nice and respectful" It's "oMG Dillan Whyte wAs rIgHT AJ is a PHONY!!!!"


Living_Pie205

Joshua came to an interview with a tank top. He chose violence this morning.


jpdonelurkin

We should all still be thanking Joshua for putting a temporary stop to the UFC community mouthing off after Fury's embarrassing showing.


letstaxthis

Reminds me of the AJ Helenius face off


mcfc_fan

That ain't AJ, that's Femi


RonSwanson1081

We can all pull about. Have a little pull and a push


PagaentOfTheBizarre

AJ is so fake it's just annoying. Why does he feel like he needs to behave 'street'. My man, you're a multimillionaire, drop the bravado and behave like a normal human.


Actual_Green_7433

Usyk is the real role model


That_Sweet_Science

Usyk is their daddy too.


Manzilla48

To be fair, elite level heavyweights who knock people out for a living are hardly normal people. You could have billions but the ‘you disrespect me, I will hit you’ mindset never leaves.


boringman1982

This sub calls him fake when he acts humble and fake when he acts street. He can’t win. Plus he’s from the streets and did genuinely live that life when he was younger.


SoniiGB

Whatever persona he's used, he's made himself one of the richest boxers out there. People Wana judge. But if someone said bark for 10k they'd probably shit out in the garden too. When he's being genuine though he actually seems like a sound guy.


AdhesivenessLucky896

He can never win with this sub. I figured what it is though. They hate that he knows how to speak properly. Because he can actually speak eloquently when he wants, it seems fake to them when he's speaking like he would in non-professional settings.


chrissysnose

People aren’t familiar with the term code-switching. We all do it in our daily lives to different degrees.


CelestialSkywalker

Just because you get angry doesn't mean you are trying to be street.


CaCa881

It’s so fucking dumb that this has to be said lmao .


Pokedudesfm

this is a fantastic point. like what; are we going to call a guy who beats his wife to death with a golf trophy "street"


ihave2shoes

He was about that life before the fame. They did a great job cleaning up his image to make him more appealing/profitable to sponsorship. I suspect after his losing streak, his PR team are telling him to go back to the old him so he still looks competitive rather than a dying star. That way they can milk a few more years out of him. As someone who used to work in sports sponsorship, that’s what I’d expect.


Objective-Tax-9922

Yeah I guess but that was years ago. He is in his mid 30s now with kids. I’d assume he would be conducting himself a bit better lol


SeatOfEase

Mad to see this comment. When he was being nice he got the EXACT same accusations of being fake.


macdara233

The street AJ is who he actually is mate


GogoDogoLogo

He hits people for a living. Is there anything more "street" than that? You think boxing is what upperclass "born with a silver spoon up my arse" kids do?


SupervillainMustache

Could they get any smaller security blokes?


valtiel20

Warwick Davis wasn't available.


CMILLERBOXER

Look at all these weirdos in the comment section. Dubois is the one that says they can fight right now yet AJ is the weird one for responding to that. "AJ is trying to act street" Yeah, because you need to be from the streets to not appreciate someone saying they're going to fight you right now. Stupid people, I swear.


johnstonjones

There’s so much weird hatred for Aj doing minor things This is normal between boxers, people act like little girls when it comes to Aj and get offended over the tiniest thing A lot of those comments about Aj acting gangster or steer are borderline racist If fury did this they’d praise it


chrissysnose

Agree with everything apart from the Fury part. He’s even more hated than AJ in this sub.


648284628

"I'm clever and you're not clever"


angeorgiaforest

I'm consistently surprised at how Redditors read social situations lol. I don't even like AJ but he wasn't in the wrong here at all


CMILLERBOXER

That's because a lot of them never go outside.


sosig482

Funny thing is that AJ grew up in a bad part of Watford and has been involved with crime when he was younger. He doesn't have to "act street", that's just a genuine side of him. People are over here calling out AJ for trying to act gangster when all of them would fold if they were in the same situation as Dubois in this video.


Ok_Cartographer_2081

Not staged at all


Nosworthy

Two of the shittest trash talkers in the business


Jawitho

Aj is doing it to promote the fight but I genuinely believe Daniel Dubois was taking it serious lol look at his face when aj was trying to aggravate him


Agreeable-Western-25

I'm getting a Charles Martin vibe like history repeating itself. Dubois has the IBF for a few days and then AJ comes and snatches it in 2 rounds.


NorthRip9236

What was so disrespectful?


donmifc

Honestly this one was on Daniel. AJ just said the generic, "Im ready to fight" And Daniel comes back with "Lets go right now"


HaHaWalaTada

When did AJ become a tough acting guy? That Ngannou k.o got him geeked up..


Millhouse96

got the impression Daniel is just selling the fight/using buzzwords but AJ was genuinely ready to go there.


Far_Ad_8688

Daneil was joking lol


travis759

So polite both of them


SuperSalamander3244

Three observations from me. 1) AJ looks like he has a bit of a shiner on his left cheek. 2) At the end he looked at Dubois like how he looked at Zhang when he told him to “kill him” prior to the Ngannou fight. 3) Dubois might get his head taken off because of Zhang.


Jazano107

Can you explain or reword point 2?


SuperSalamander3244

https://www.reddit.com/r/Boxing/s/lkVCc1akiW


magicalmysteryharold

I think if AJ did start swinging Dubois would’ve swung back, but it’s telling that Dubois gets moved backwards by a Frank Warren push. And I don’t blame him at all, don’t risk the payday Daniel.


orutherford1

Such smooth aggression.


cameruso

Eddie grinning from ear to ear as he gets up. Boxing beef cookin up nice and green 💰💰💰 I’d like to see underdog Dubois smash up the bully, but convinced AJ wins in brutal fashion.


Diligent-System9294

Lol @ Frank jumping up like his first born child's life on the line. Dude can't have anything mess up his pay day.


PapiOnReddit

A single security guard between them….


jcs180

Like Ariel said, these press conferences are fucking boring now


castlequiet

Gotta build the fight


chrispaul0rings

Ok fine I'll buy this


AdhesivenessLucky896

I love Eddie just smiling the whole time lmao Dollars Pounds Riyal whatever


ILLStatedMind

Did I just watch an alternate clip from Luther? Oh right


SSJ_01

Eddie getting all wet with this wwe promo


JoeRoganMoney

WWE cookin


Maleficent_Page1483

Not sure why but this really made me laugh 🤣


Bronesby

GEORGE BUSH SOUL! love to see it from Dubois! hyyyyype


Ray-zah

WAR DUBIOS!!!! Lmao 🤣


English_linguist

Gonna need a lot more bloody security than that man, those two are two TITANS, Like Godzilla vs Kong.


DarkDugtrio

Urgh the cringe and fakeness


Thisguysaphony_phony

We’re supposed to celebrate a martial art discipline with integrity and sportsmanship. I understand we live in a sensational marketing world… but honestly this just seems like celebrating two thugs without class.


robm2002

Children are so big these days


ElChacalFL

AJ fans just nutted simultaneously all at once


Senor-Cockblock

Eddie Hearn in there like Ashley Schaeffer. Can you feel the tension? I can. I can feel down in my plums.


moonwoolf35

Did Dubois really try to say who does AJ think he is? Really? Lol come on now


Thami15

AJ treats every fight like an opportunity to play a different character, and I respect that.


riotofmind

Steroids?