Joshua’s consistent ducking of Wilder and the Wilder-Whyte WBC saga explained

"If Wilder sparks out Joshua it make him looks better not Fury"

Of course it does. If Wilder sparks Joshua in 1 round people will see "Fury went 30 rounds with Wilder, never lost and KO'd him twice, while AJ couldn't even last a single round". It would look fantastic for Fury. People talk about wins "aging well" and "aging badly", this would be a massive example of the former.

"Joshua dont ducked Wilder."

Read the first post in this thread. Joshua: "The Wilder fight is too dangerous, I need more time to develop, I'm very worried about being one-punch KO'd, even the Parker fight was scary, I don't want another hard fight, I'll retire if I have one" etc.

"He dont duck Fury too"

Hearn admitted they did:

https://www.boxingforum24.com/threa...ucking-of-fury-in-bombshell-interview.694541/

"He dont duck Ortiz too"

Matchroom signed undefeated Ortiz in 2016 to keep him away from Joshua. He only got a title fight in 2018 because Wilder stepped up.

"Its better to lose to Ruiz but take all great fight"

Sure it is.

 

Joshua fears being humiliated (the Ruiz loss being possibly the most humiliating defeat in combat sports history) and he fears taking hard shots from a health perspective. He's talked about how he wants his legacy to be that he retired healthy and said he doesn't want to be in a wheelchair at 50 or 60. Fighting Wilder entails the risk of getting badly humiliated via going el sparko, perhaps in 1 round and there are also brain damage implications.

Joshua looks depressed to me and gets mugged off by uni kids. But Hearn has him on a lifetime contract so it is what it is.

 

"Can You remind us wich of Wilder opponent got brain damage after fight with him?"

Neurological problems usually take years to manifest. Getting sparked out by the GOAT right hand obviously isn't healthy. Whether it's more or less healthy than a prolonged fight against a lighter puncher is unknown but health-conscious Joshua will regard Wilder as being scarier intuitively.

"he beat Stiverne 12 rounds, Molina 9"

He was the first to drop Stiverne and won virtually every round. He dropped Molina 4 times, won all but one or two rounds. More recently, Stiverne 2, Breazeale and Helenius all got sparked in 1. Joshua got dropped 4 times and stopped by relatively light puncher Andy Ruiz when he still had his 0, he's not especially durable or mentally strong.

"He fought with Whyte, he fought with Povetkin"

Wow. Two guys with poor KO records when Joshua fought them. The Wlad fight is 6.5 years ago and Joshua was noticeably more gunshy post-Wlad, saying "If I have another hard fight like that, I quit. I shouldn't have to go to that place to win".

 

He pipped 43 year old Ortiz after having ducked him for years, he demolished Joshua.

 

No one with a brain believes the Eddie Hearn narrative anymore that Wilder was afraid to fight Whyte. Wilder's fought much better fighters than 41 Wlad and 39 Povetkin in Fury x3 and Ortiz.

Helenius aside, why has Joshua been matched exclusively against short non-punchers post-Wlad?

Takam (no knockdowns or stoppage wins against his ten best opponents)

Parker (no stoppage wins against his eleven best opponents)

Povetkin (only Price got knocked down/stopped over a six fight stretch despite Povetkin being a pressure fighter)

Ruiz x2 (went the distance with a litany of journeymen despite being a pressure fighter)

Pulev (best stoppage wins were 8+ years prior in 11 rounds against Ustinov and Dimitrenko via a jab)

Usyk x2 (didn’t drop or stop Glowacki, Briedis, Gassiev or Chisora)

Franklin (part time factory worker, somehow went the 10 round distance with uber glass chinned journeyman Sour)

Hearn/Joshua would be wise to stay ducking Wilder.