Will Anthony Joshua hold a title again before he retires?

Yeah I reckon the belts fracture in 2024 and he'll get a soft ball title fight against Ortiz or someone idk. The organisations like having Joshua as their champion so they'll give him a relatively easy path to success.

Hearn will call it the greatest comeback in the history of boxing and Brand AJ will be up and running once more.

 

Totally.

 

If Fury and Joshua fought in the next year or two it wouldn’t shock me if AJ actually won that fight.

Fury seems generally overrated by most at the moment and Joshua underrated.

I don’t think that fight plays out the same way as most do with Fury winning easy.

Don’t think Joshua beats any version of Usyk tho.

 

Eddie will call up Dustin Nichols for a title eliminator ,so probably yes. Saying that, wouldn't surprise me if the big dopey bodybuilder walks into another checkbook, and it's lights out! lol another world record, and even fatter heavweight champion of the world!

 

Joshua has 1 upset loss to Ruiz and 2 defeats to Usyk which imo where expected with the depth of Usyks skill set going against Joshua’s well known flaws. Chances are Usyk and Fury retire next year (Fury won’t stay retired and be back in a year or so later).The Heavyweight landscape will then be wide open with likely Wilder Joyce and with a couple of the guys on the way up all in the mix and if Joshua gets his mind right as well as his hunger back to continue boxing it is possible he could get his hands on a belt again . I can definitely see all the belts fracturing if not next year then the year after and Joshua could well grab a belt which would not surprise me .

 

What makes you think Fury was ducking Joshua? Wilder has been on record for accepting lesser money fighting Fury than Joshua, but why Fury?

This post screams "it's my party and I'll cry if I want to".

 

What a load of absolute rubbish.

Martin, Takam, Molina, Breazeale and Pulev are all rubbish opposition, as is a 300 pounds Andy Ruiz. Parker was utterly toothless. Povetkin had just been dropped by David Price.

"He's fought the best competition around apart from Fury and Wilder" is like saying that you have the best hair in a town full of bald men apart from the two blokes who have hair.

 

Didn't the Joshua offer come after the first Fury fight though? I might have misread your post, haven't had coffee yet.

 

Cheers.

 

The Southern Area Heavyweight Championship is vacant so if he is lightly enough matched he might just scrape through and win that title.

 

Although I favour a good version of Fury, I think he's within the scope of AJ to beat.

 

I disagree that he could have easily ducked Usyk.

Because he actually tried. Hearn threatened to drop the WBO belt, and Warren/Joyce were also trying to cut in the line with the WBO's help. Everyone was pushing for undisputed. Usyk was having none of it, though, and pressed his mandatory claim. I recall on here, I was among a tiny minority that was championing for Usyk to get what he was due. (I always side with the mandatory challenger who climbed the ladder when it is obvious the gov bodies and A-sides are screwing them).

However, everything else you have said is spot on. To think it was Joshua that was doing the ducking of Wilder and Fury 2017-2020, it's one of three things: they weren't following the public negotiations, they were incapable of following the public negotiations, or they followed the negotiations but just have an agenda to push.

It's hard to ignore that Wilder and Fury publicly stated they would freeze Joshua out. Then throw in that Wilder's admissions on social media actually support that they followed through on such threats.

Of course maybe none of this happened, we are living on an alternative timeline and it was always Joshua at fault (the big stiff idiot)...

 

You are correct, it did.

They were already offering Wilder a two way rematch clause end of 2018.
Dec 10, 2018:
https://www-independent-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.independent.co.uk/sport/boxing/anthony-joshua-deontay-wilder-vs-tyson-fury-next-fight-eddie-hearn-april-13-latest-news-watch-video-highlights-prediction-a8675921.html?amp=&amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw==#amp_tf=From %1$s&aoh=16682505034590&referrer=https://www.google.com&ampshare=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/boxing/anthony-joshua-deontay-wilder-vs-tyson-fury-next-fight-eddie-hearn-april-13-latest-news-watch-video-highlights-prediction-a8675921.html

And again it was prior to the second Fury fight that Wilder declined 100m.
March 2019:
https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/15/deon...dible-100m-deal-fight-anthony-joshua-8909737/

Complaints that Joshua wasn't offering enough money to a fighter with no track record of PPV sales are always decontextualised. Did Canelo give GGG 50-50? Nope. Did Floyd give Pacquiao 50-50? Nope. Wilder didn't have the profile or track record of moving the needle in his own country let alone on an international stage. It was Fury who introduced him to big time boxing.