Is Joshua ducking Dubois

If the fight is indeed at Wembley Stadium, surely Joshua v Dubois is a fight likely to fill it while Joshua v Parker 2 for no titles is more Wembley Arena.

 

Was the spar at the peacock mate?

 

I still think that would fill up Wembley Stadium with a cracking undercard tbh mate

 

I am too programmed into Matchroom/Queensbury poor undercards pre Saudi such as Fury v Whyte at Wembley.

Yes it will be a good undercard with Turkey ordering the fights to be made.

 

Exactly bud. He knows how to put competitive high level fights on. Mainly with his wallet.

 

No, Sheffield.

 

If the question’s “is Joshua ducking…”

The answer’s usually “Yes.”

 

Hoof

 

In world title fights Joshua has been willing to fight top up and coming fighters as in under the age of 30.

Age at time of fights -
Martin 29
Parker 26
Ruiz 29
Dubois (fight due 21st September, Dubois would be 27)

The above at the respective fight times were/are world class HWs
I'm not a personal fan of Joshua but as a boxing fan really think what he has done in such a few amount of HW fights is very respectable.
Consider Klitschko had the WBO, WBA and IBF titles. Fury won all those titles with one fight.
Joshua went on to win and unify those titles and did that with 3 separate world title fights.

That is impressive and shown that in world title fights that Joshua has been willing to take on top young fighters

Which other HW world champions during his era have fought as many top young (under 30 years of age) fighters? Not many I don't think

 

Top young fighters Charles Martin, Ruiz and Parker?

Virtually all very low risk fights yet somehow he still managed to lose one of them.

The top of the tree was Wilder which he ducked due to money, the high probablity of being flattened and clearly lacking the mentality and boxing ability of a genuine elite World Heavyweight Champion.

There were no elite fighters in the era since the Klitschko reign ended until the arrival of Usyk.

Usyk went after the champions without any hesitation and cleaned the division out in double quick time.

 

This thread is an example of letting your personal dislike for someone overrule your brain. AJ may not be your cup of tea, but when you look at his CV why on earth would he have ****ed Dubois out of everyone?!

 

Why don't you tell me who they all were?
When you look at the ring 2016 yearly rankings including Joshua there were 3 other fighters available to fight who were 30 and under and Joshua fought all of them.
The rankings show the fighters so tell me who were the other young fighters he should have fought because he fought all of them in the ring rankings of that year

Based on what?
Recently
Ruiz beat Ortiz,
Parker beat Wilder and Zhang
Martin gave current up and comer Anderson a distance fight

So what are you basing these factors on?

Klitschko was the #1 when he fought him.
Fury was the champion but not fighting at that time.
Look at the rankings for yourself and see that, that is correct

don't disagree with that but not knocking what Joshua did either
Usyk was a champion level fighter and from when he first fought at HW Oct 2019 - May 2024 he has won 2 fights to win all of the HW titles. Brilliant no question
Joshua from his first world title fight Apr 2016 - Mar 2018 when he beat Parker has 3 separate title fights to get 3 of those belts together.


Now back to the original point which you have swerved.
You said Joshua had made a career of fighting old men and I pointed out that with world title fights and I pointed out
Age at time of fights -
Martin 29
Parker 26
Ruiz 29
Dubois (fight due 21st September, Dubois would be 27)

My question you ducked was

Which other HW world champions during his era have fought as many top young (under 30 years of age) fighters? Not many I don't think

Just a straight answer please

 

Cherry pick words out of a post but the actual words I posted were 'Joshua has made a career out of cherry picking soft touches, mainly small and/or old men and he will take the easiest option possible.'

Rankings mean nothing as we seen from Connor Benn suddenly ripping through to number 2 with one body.

Apply context before every Joshua fight and you will see I am not wrong. For example Ruiz was on 5 days notice after spending 500 days in Burger King.

The era before Usyk arrived was rotten and Joshua ducked the fight with Wilder.

Facts.

If you need a visual to prove the point that he is nowhere near the level of an elite fighter then enjoy the highlights of his legacy fight.

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hes done you there, nice edit

 

Let's try again

I noticed you have ducked the questions

My question you ducked was

Which other HW world champions during his era have fought as many top young (under 30 years of age) fighters? Not many I don't think

Just a straight answer please


Also
Why don't you tell me who they all were?
When you look at the ring 2016 yearly rankings including Joshua there were 3 other fighters available to fight who were 30 and under and Joshua fought all of them.
The rankings show the fighters so tell me who were the other young fighters he should have fought because he fought all of them in the ring rankings of that year