I would have preferred AJ vs Whyte II. A fight with no risk and at the same time it would be easier to sell to the public.
Stand by for unrelenting tub thumping from the DAZN company men for the battle of the also rans for the next 7 months
What is the point really. Thought it would be a careful opponent but this is a shocking choice. At this point...surely would be better just chucking Joshua in with Fury now if this is the warm up fight. Joshua v Fury at this point is actually a pretty pointless fight in the grand scheme of things. Not for a title. Not building for a title. Not even to decide who was the better fighter etc. Its pretty much a cash grab to see who,s got the most left now. Still a lot of people want to see it i,d bet but we dont really need warmups against absolute no hopers. I thought Furys warm up was worthwhile. Makmudov. Joshua entitled to a reasonable warm up. Absolute no point in this guy as a warn up tho.
Its servers 2 points. First is to get the fans excited for his power and the other is to give AJ a bit of a confidence boost.
All in all I don't actually think this is pointless. Gets AJ in front of the lights, chance for a spectacular win against a guy who can obviously whack a bit but has not really been tested. AJ has had a tough year, I'll give him a pass on this one.
The myth of Joshua being shot to pieces on the back of a loss to Dubois is funny. He was also humiliated by mediocre fat midget Ruiz. Was he shot then also? He'd always have lost to Dubois. This myth is just peddled as a mechanism to preserve his false status as some kind of very good champion when all he did was beat awful opponents or old and short men
Absolutely shocking match but What's new with Joshua? He's beat one live opponent in his career and that was life and death against aan 14 years his senior and at the end
Joey Twelve Parker was always AJs best win. Otto Wallin the only prime young BUCK he beat in his entire career, and I think he only found his pen for that one after Fury softened him up first. Smoke and mirrors career full of shot to pieces old names and teeing off on fat midgets with his tongue out. Danny DUBIOUS showed why they never put him in with a puncher.
Joshua Parker remains one of the worst title fights in history and it was a unification. Young buck Wallin at 33 was hopeless and Joshua done a job on him and was referred to as better than ever, new and improved. Suddenly he became shot to pieces only since Dubois smashed him. Or maybe Joshua was just never that good. Was he shot also vs Ruiz?
AJ was winning handily against Ruiz then got cocky and got caught with a temple shot which he didn’t recover from, due to very poor recovery abilities. AJ wasn’t shot then. It happens. Everyone knows Wallin wasn’t any good. His best win was losing to Fury. AJ dealt with him and Ngannou with ease which just made a statement to Fury.
I think Fury and AJ are so shot to pieces whoever fights closest to their actual fight will go off second favorite. I am beyond bored of both fighters, I couldn't careless about this fight. Just two has beens milking every last penny out of the job.