Who should Anthony Joshua fight next?

Hearn/Joshua ducked the Fury fight in December last year:

https://www.boxingforum24.com/threa...ucking-of-fury-in-bombshell-interview.694541/

They even stooped so low as to fight unknown part time factory worker Franklin over Wallin, despite having massive A-side advantage.

Ruiz also priced himself out. That would have been a very easy fight for Fury, far easier than Ngannou.

 

Hearn disagrees with you. They wouldn't even fight Wallin in April 2023, they were never fighting Fury in December 2022.

 

"They did avoid Wallin"

If they're avoiding Wallin 4 months later they're not fighting 1/4 favourite Fury. Hearn didn't even claim that the offer wasn't genuine, he just said "AJ shouldn't have agreed" and "I'm happy it fell through". It's not Fury's fault that Joshua keeps losing in upsets and is still looking to fight the likes of Charr or Kabayel in his 3rd comeback fight post-Usyk.

 

Kabayel beat Chisora who Fury somehow felt the need to fight 3 times. If Fury was fighting Kabayel Fury apologists would be trying to claim it as a great win. Sort of like they hype the Wallin win.

 

Zhang.

Hearn said they would 100% take that fight in China but they are looking at Wilder. Called Zhang indirectly a "lesser" fighter and said that Zhang is not Top 5 and slow. Not proven. His ranking after Zhang vs. Joyce 2 was:

1. Fury
2. Usyk
3. AJ
4. Wilder
5. Hrgovic

Hearn said confidently: "Do you think AJ would worry about Zhilei Zhang?"

Fury and Usyk will be delayed. None of them will fight anytime soon, both will prepare for that mega fight. I don't think Wilder is mentally ready for another big fight against someone like AJ. So make AJ vs. Zhang if you're so confidant.

 

Zhang would ko Wilder (stock down due to Franny)