Anthony Joshuas career is a disappointment

He was the great heavyweight that filled the space between Klitschko and Usyk. He reigned for four years, longer than most, and managed to beat Klitschko, Povetkin, Whyte, Parker, and Ruiz along with lesser lights such as Pulev, Takam, and Helenius. There aren't many better records at heavyweight. I'm not sure what ridiculousness you were expecting.

 

I'm not his biggest fan but he stqrted boxing late he won a gold medal and became undisputed champ seems like a good career to me

 

Exactly....hardly a hack. At least he took on who was in front of him at the time, Wilder and Fury were feasting on bums till they faced each other. I never liked him as a human being as he always came across as ingenious, he was never the same after facing Vlad getting nearly finished. AJ still beats Fury today for my money.

 

Anthony Joshua was a manufactured paper champion and a hype job, but as far as manufactured paper champion hype jobs go (and there have been many famous ones in the heavyweight division over the years) he would rate among the better ones.

The only real possible "disappointment" was he never improved after the Wlad Klitschko fight. That was his 19th pro fight, he'd only been a professional 3 1/2 years, and he was 27 years old. Over the next few years or fights we might have expected some improvements, especially in terms of composure or confidence after coming through such a gruelling fight, but he never progressed in that respect, sometimes seemed to regress.

 

I agree. He's overrated. Another hype job.

 

He had a damned good career, won titles and made millions. Were people actually expecting ATG things?

 

Hypejob
manufactured
bum dosser
bodybuilding bum
Mental midget
wannabe champion
paper champ
Rich in the bank but poor in mental condition

words to describe Roadman Femi Anthony Joshua

 

Mentioning Anthony Joshua and the words Hype Job in the same sentence make absolutely no sense or even insinuating theres a ounce of "hype job" that goes with his career. If you offered him exactly how his career has turned out before he first threw a punch in a gym, i bet he would take it in a heartbeat as would 99.9% of anyone who dreams of pursuing boxing.

He was never meant to be the next Lennox Lewis, he was meant to be the next British Mega star of boxing, he became that. Audley Harrison was meant to be the great British hope, then David Price, they both failed miserably hence why you never see threads about them in fantasy matchups vs Heavyweights of the past, AJ lived up to everything he was meant to be, a Superstar who provided some incredible boxing events win or lose.

He was always seen as a future World Champion and a future kingpin of the division who could go on and unify or even become undisputed and collect all the belts. If you thought AJ was going to go his whole career as some unbeatable destructive Monster then you dont understand the sport and you were roped in by the promotion & marketing team which is exactly what they are there for. For all his strengths he always had obvious flaws. The expectations was World Champion minimum, so many fighters get hyped up as future world champions and never even accomplish that, AJ did that and much more. He didnt just enhance his own brand, he completely rebuilt British Boxing at a time when Britain didnt really have any superstars, he enhanced the careers of other young British fighters who were able to benefit off his success and publicity.

Like him or not, British boxing owes him alot for what hes done for us. The stadium sellouts became normality, At his peak, a Joshua fight on these shores was a massive sporting event, even now, after numerous losses, he could still sell out stadiums, thats legacy. He made British Boxing a real player again. Hope he gets his flowers when its all said and done.

 

Yeah Joshua hate is so popular on here here and I have no idea why. He fought everyone he could, 3 belt champ, virtually undisputed, avenged his upset loss. Seems like a decent guy despite having every reason not to be. The usyk 2 incident was a bad look but lets be honest here. Boxers have done far, far worse after a loss.

 

The way people go on about Joshua in here you'd think he slapped they momma.

 

Joshua was alright, but gets way overhyped by many.

In the 2010's when Fury was the top dog, Joshua never had the stones to make that fight. He didn't fight the other significant HW of his era in Wilder either. After getting beat by the journeymen Ruiz, Anthony lost his heart altogether. I'd rate the HW of the 2010's #1 Fury, #2 Wilder, #3 Joshua

In the early to mid 2020's Joshua was again # 3 while Usyk and Dubois both made him look very mediocre.

3rd fiddle that's the story of Anthony Joshua!

 

Wilder at 2nd lol. Was it the Stiverne win that impressed you so much?

 

Nah, the fact that he enough guts to face Fury 3 times while AJ was scared to face the other 2 best HW's of the 2010's. Face it AJ was the odd man out who was terrified of tough fights. Eddie Hearn protected him as much as he could, but the loss to Ruiz exposed his true level.