Makhmudov will knock out Joshua.

If AJ is even 50% of what he was in the Dubois fight, he sparks the Russian inside 6. If he somehow loses, he's done and he needs to GTFO of the sport.

 

It has been explained to you many times, you just choose to not listen.

Joyce fight pre Zhang never made sense. AJ fought Usyk in 2021 and 2022 when Joyce really took off and nobody expected AJ to jump straight into Joyce after back to back losses. After that, Joyce was beaten to a pulp by Zhang and took immediate rematch in which he got sparked out again.

When Zhang was on AJ's list people were saying he's cherry picking the loser and should fight the Croatian. They were also saying he beat him in the Olympics so he knew it would be easy, lol.

Wilder ducked AJ and admitted it.

AJ would have fought Hrgović if he beat Dubois. He fought the guy who beat the Croatian.

AJ signed to fight Fury in 2021 but Tyson lost the arbitration and needed to fight Wilder for the third time.

Now tell me why didn't Fury fight Joyce, Zhang and Hrgovic

 

If he does that means that Anthony Joshua is really shot cause Makhmudov isnt good at all

 

It's not impossible even if AJ will still be fav

 

If I were Joshua, I wouldn't take a fight like that. It's a "you're better at practically everything and you can still get beat" type of fight. There's not much to gain, but a lot to lose. Joshua moves better, has better reach, and is faster. He's also a better puncher technically. But what good is it when Makhmudov is a typical lumberjack who throws such explosive attacks that one mistake and everything goes to waste? He could have cut himself like Fury against Ngannou. In that fight, it was supposed to be easy and enjoyable, but it ended in a fight for his life and a narrow victory for Tyson. And Fury still has the recovery time to save him in moments like that – Joshua, not necessarily. Besides, it's unclear where Joshua is now and how much of the guy is left. This pause and Dubois's inclusion clearly show that there's little faith left. It would be much better if he fought someone like Hughie Fury, Jarrell Miller, or even Joyce. Apart from Fuey, these wouldn't be easy fights either, but at least they don't have such a deadly single bomb.

 

Mak was awful vs Allen constantly holding and wide open, AJ would destroy him.

 

Dubois is 3x better than Allen and 3x quicker than Mak.

 

People are underestimating just how finished Joshua is. If someone puts him on the back foot, he is in trouble. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if Mak ended his career, considering the Klitschko fight was 8 years ago, that's a long time in HW boxing, and Joshua has been declining ever since Ruiz 1.