Rumours - Anthony Joshua was having panic attacks weeks before the fite

I can 100% relate to that, at a point in my life when I was my most financially and emotionally secure, the happiest and completely stress free, I started having anxiety attacks. My first one actually started in the middle of the night while I was sound asleep FFS! I woke up thinking I was having a heart attack, chest pains, sweating, hyperventilating etc. It scared the living sh!t out of me and I stayed awake the rest of the night fearing I’d die in my sleep otherwise.

My second major one happened weeks later while sat in a movie theatre watching a comedy, fine one second then wham it happened again.

To this day (excuse the pun) I have no idea why they started!

 

It was the end of the 6th round.

 

Now you're stealing my line!

 

That's been contemplated to death, actually.

 

Why would his father have to be physically restrained ??

 

Because he was in a boxing ring acting like an idiot?

 

Exactly. I’m sure MANY fighters have ****ing spells of anxiety and panic attacks before and even during fights. They either get through it or don’t and I’ve never seen any goon father get in the ring and actually go after a promoter because his boy wasn’t pampered and pulled out of the fight last minute. Security should have tased his dumbass.

 

Believe me, if you suffered a proper panic attack midway through a fight, you wouldn't see out that round.

 

If a fighter has panic attacks, he shouldn't be fighting. He should pick another career.

The fighting sport requires the fighter to stay cool under pressure. The moment he panics, it's over for him.

 

IF, IF he suffered a panic attack it was brought on by either that Wlad right hand two years ago, the terror of knowing Ruiz was a PRIME live dog, or a sparring partner putting a charge into his skull.

Either way you slice it... its on him. Maybe the lab experiment is a little too fragile for this sport.