AJs December opponent

There was two in there - ‘as expected Ruiz beats Ortiz’

I think the ‘world tour’ idea is actually a pretty good one.

Joshua is in the strange position of being one of the most high profile fighters in boxing but not very close to a world title shot and at an age where explosive athletes like him start to naturally decline.

Making as much money in winnable fights in emerging markets makes sense for Joshua and DAZN.

 

Yeah, I hope it will Zhang or Hrgovic but I've got bad feeling it won't even be someone their level but Wallin.

 

AJ will be matched against a number of nobodys in a series of fights with no sporting value.

 

More than likely. It's going to be a struggle making these fights PPV with out the Sky Hype machine.

 

Hearn basically stating that Tony Dosh PPV needs a tune up fight to face King Pudding Whyte and it is a huge stadium fight.

Apart from fleecing the mugths again, there is zero sporting purpose.

 

This. Why does Joshua need a tune up fight? He's just fought so he should be in pique physical condition. It wasn't as though he took a battering that requires a long recuperating lay off.

If Joshua had a set of balls, he'd tell Hearn to make the Whyte fight in December or, failing that, early next year. Load of nonsense.

 

Otto Wallin is a more dangerous prospect for Joshua than Zhang or Hrgovic.

 

Unfortunately any fighter who has been beaten by Fury or Wilder automatically gets placed outside the top 100 by Mitchroom's algorithm.

 

Warm up and rematch against Gary Cornish first.

Shouldn’t need a warm up for whyte, who I think has overachieved on his talent really. Think AJ would smoke him reasonably easily again personally. Everyone talks abar the left hook in first fight but bar that it was pretty one sided

 

Problem he has is he loses against the top 3 imo (fury, usyk and I feel wilder knocks him out). Then he could beat or has beaten most of the others who are established “names”, so then it’s only the younger/unestablished lions of the division for him then

 

Whyte had some success to the body too. AJ even acknowledged it but it was a bit of a beatdown from what I remember. Granted i haven't seen it since.

 

Yeh mate I can’t say it’s a fight I’ve went back to over and over, from what I remember of it like could be wrong though will have another watch

 

No a soft pillow puncher with slow footwork that's sitting target for AJ isn't a bigger threat than big punchers such Hrgovic or Zhang.

 

Depends who his opponents are.

I mean if it's for example if it's the likes Hrgovic, Whyte, Bakole, the Joyce vs Parker winner, Hunter vs Hughie winner etc then there great fights amongst top fighters.

However if it's the likes of Wallin, Schwarz, Ortiz, Helenius, Duhaupas, Kownacki, Ajagba, Washington and Demirezen etc then it's just pointless mismatchs against low level opposition with no relevance.

 

Between 1992 and 1999 Evander Holyfield fought Larry Holmes, Ray Mercer, Riddick Bowe three times, Michael Moorer twice, Mike Tyson Twice and Lennox Lewis twice. His 'soft touches' were still Alex Stewart, Vaughn Bean and Bobby Czyz, who are certainly comparable to current fighters like Chisora and Whyte. Pretty insane when you compare that to today's heavyweight scene.