Anthony Joshua: has his 'nice guy' Olympian image been shattered?

Mate what the ****. He got nicked for selling weed, and your like yeh but he was probably selling crack, heroin, running child trafficking rings, selling human organs etc. Your making yourself judge, jury and executioner based on your own views and presenting them views as fact in your own head.

Loads of people just sell weed. There is money to be made from it, more people use it than say heroin. While I have my reservations bout its not as straight forward as everyone involved being absoloute scum. Alcohol ruins lives, it ruins families, most homeless addicts use it, it causes mayhem for police/a&e. Are bargain booze, Carlsberg etc absoloute scum too?

You've obviously a strong view on all illegal drugs which is fair enough but it seems your forming your opinion on Joshua the person based on this.

 

Maybe I will do but lack of exposure in the pro means that non amateur boxing fans, wont know an awful lot about him

 

To answer the op, it's clear AJ has a nasty side. Obviously his well documented previous misdemeanours with pushing drugs, and statements like wanting to be the dominant force in his area don't come from someone without a very dark side.

That's a long time ago, but it'll still be within him. I think he's shown it in the ring at bit too. He's hit a few people while they've been down and things like that. In his latest interview with Kugan he seemed a bit ****ed about Eddie jumping in...he mutters something like "are you gonna ask me some questions now?"

It's all good though - he's a fighter after all, but this good guy image his team want to give him is a bit silly imo

 

I forgot to mention the Twitter beef with Dillian whyte that Paul butlin got involved in...see Paul's Twitter feed

 

I fully expect to be told im talking **** here but im genuinly just repeating something i got told

I know some one very well connected with the Ametuer game and some one he knows was down at the Team GB camp 3 weeks ago. Apparently price and AJ were there and had a spar in which Price put AJ down.

for the record i am a proper AJ fan and have no agenda but i agree with the posters who say he seems different in his interviews lately and that could be why.

Also for the record when i heard this, my 1st thought was theres no way AJ would be sparring Price if Hearn is looking to match the pair of them in 3-4 fights time.

 

I don't think price would be allowed to spar with AJ but if they did, it wouldn't suprise me if Price put AJ down, Cos Price packs a powerful punch, two years ago we was talking about Price been potentially bigger than Lewis before his two shock defeats.


Sparring his sparring, AJ is doing his thing, i agree with himself and Hearn, he needs a steady 15 fights before he steps in with the big names, and as i said in a post last week, and Hearn mentioned it in his ifilm interview, if you take the first 11 names on AJs resume, they are stronger fights than on Lennox Lewis, Tyson, fury, and to be honest most of the heavyweights in history and that is with only a couple of years amateur pedigree.

 

Let's use your logic about Joshua with manny...

Do nice guys cheat on their wives?

Well looks your argument is dead in the water.

 

i agree.

im not to dissapointed with who he has been matched against, i just hope that when he beats KJ he the gets matched against people who can last 5-6+ rounds with him. Maybe Antonio Tarver could be a good fight for him?

 

You lack basic intelligence. Of course Khan is going to care about a massacre in his country where his roots are and where his has lots of family, versus a country where he has no connection. Khan is not Mother Theresa, he has nothing to do with the massacre in Kenya.

My family is from Russia, so I care deeply about what is going on in East Ukraine, but I don't really give a sh!t about current situation in Yemen for example.

 

Who cares, most boxers out there peddle a fake image of themselves to sell to the general public, whether they are fake nice guys like Joshua or fake bad guys. Joshua is focusing on his boxing, he isn't killing or raping anyone or selling drugs anymore - this is beat up over nothing, but what else would you expect from a poster clearly lacking a few braincells like DoubleEdge

 

Pretty obvious that was the case, not gonna be sayin it to a fella he blatantly gets on well with is he ?

 

I heard this too, I wouldn't be surprised for the same reason as the other guy stated. What stage of his career was he at when this took place? I heard he was still an amateur but would be interesting if he was pro at the time.

 

There is a clear diference between falling to temptation when you have women throwing themselves at you compared to making the decision to sell drugs on the street or threaten someone who can't defend themselves against you.

AJ is still a thug, he showed it in his last fight and he showed it in the interview.

 

Khan was born in the uk, and he has never spoken of his sadness when any brits suffer at the hands of his terrorist buddies So your argument falls short.

And the massacre in kenya was done by a muslim.