Anthony Joshua vs Daniel Dubois II - February 22, 2025

Dubois ends his career inside 4 rounds

 

I agree. AJ however has much bigger room for improvement.

 

AJ gets battered again, he should really just move on and either wait for Fury if he loses the Usyk rematch, or try to make the Wilder fight

At this stage of their careers, AJ is a declining force both physically and mentally. Not even counting the amateur mistakes he made in the ring, he looked like he was shitting himself during the ringwalk.

Whereas Dubois is getting better and not even in his prime yet, full of confidence with the knowledge he can smash AJ again.

 

Dubois took advantage of Joshua's previously discovered weaknesses, this time he will finish the job...

 

I rewatched the fight and the first round seems totally even to me until the last 10 seconds. AJ even landed a decent right hand. Dubois was jabbing well but most of it wasn't landing clean. When Dubois came forward and threw a combination AJ covered up and most of it landed on gloves. You could maybe have given it to Dubois for activity alone but in no way did he 'dominate' the round. Was a pretty standard slow start from Joshua, like against Povetkin.

 

It's either AJ by stoppage or Dubois by stoppage obviously, but this fight didn't deserve rematch. AJ was smashed in there. He don't deserve this wild card given to him, once again.
Terrible display by AJ and he and his team have changed his high guard style to low guard terrible style. He ain't Fury, and doesn't have his finest, reflexes and his height and reach to box with low guard.

Best AJ was in the Usyk 2 fight, high guard, and throw fast combination punching. He destroys his own career with this constant changes and choosing the wrong coach/style for him.
Still going to vote for the underdog, aka him.
If he wins some people may get heart attack.

 

I'm not quite sure what you mean by that. Having more room for improvement isn't necessarily a good thing.

 

I thought Dubios finished the job rather convincingly the first time.

 

AJ cracked Dubious in that final round...Yet it took Dubious all but 10 seconds to find a defensive position in the corner and safely counter with the shorter punch to KO the bum dosser AJ.

Dubious is just a better fighter all round.

Can AJ KO Dubby? sure... but he doesn't have his grit or balls.

First big puncher AJ has fought since Wlad and he got folded as predicted and it will happen again probably by a jab this time.

AJ is pretty much done at this point even if he can somehow beat Dubious with his punchers chance there is no real way forward for him.

 

AJ will agree to this fight but I sincerely believe it never happens for one of the following

1 - Fury beats Usyk and Joshua pulls out to fight Fury for the lineal title hes never held

2 - Fury loses, Joshua pulls out with injury and waits for Usyks belts to be fragmented before taking on an easy touch for an alphabet title

 

This^

Better boxer, better puncher, better chin, better jab.

 

It wasn't close, it was a fairly comprehensive beat down.

Unless AJ comes out a completely different fighter, Dubois batters him.

This isn't like the Fury Usyk rematch, or a potential Beterbiev Bivol second showdown, which were close enough to warrant questioning who'll be triumphant second time around.

 

I'm not a Joshua hater. I wanted him to beat Dubois but I don't see him winning a rematch.

Dubois had the fight over in the first round, ok Joshua made it to the 5th or whatever but he was finished in the first. Dubois made it look easy.

Dubois will not allow Joshua to play safe and it suits Dubois for Joshua to run around for a few rounds and gas out. See if Joshua comes out and fights fire with fire then maybe he lands first. I still say Dubois gets it done again.

 

Dubois grabbed the centre of the ring straight away and retained it for almost the entire round. He landed twice as many times in the scoring areas as Joshua did and his jab was both accurate and it packed power. Joshua's defence was poor and there was little surprise when his low left hand left the door open for a Dubois bomb to land flush on his unprotected chin.

The first round was clearly a 10-9 Dubois round before he landed the bomb near the bell and ensured it was instead 10-8.

 

The dominance of Dubois jab is a big reason he wont win a rematch imo, whilever Dubois is winning the battle of the jabs then Joshua will be fighting going backwards, if Joshua is fighting Dubois going backwards then hes getting knocked out imo