Too much being read into last night’s fight. Franklin is not your typical confidence builder, he is trickier as he counters as well and has a solid chin. Joshua also just started working with a new trainer. Let’s see how things pan out. I’d still favour him against The Dosser - if an ancient Ortiz managed to outbox him, even the worst version of Joshua can.
Joshua's stock in down and this would be the best time to make the fight in terms of winning it for Wilder as Joshua looks vulnerable having come off two losses and is with a new trainer and just had a rather uninspiring performance. But lets be serious if Hearn reaches out to make the fight Wilder will talk a lot but int the end **** his pants and refuse to make the fight coming up with another excuse. Even if Wilder had the ability to KO Joshua, he's never shown the belief to make the fight whenever it's been offered or at least his team hasn't. Wilder right now is MIA. He and his team talk about AJ, Fury, Usyk but lets be real those fights ain't happening any time soon if at all. He can't even come to terms and fight Ruiz Jr a fight that makes perfect sense and should have been simple to make as they are both Haymon fighters. Right now as it stands he has no fights scheduled or even looking like it might happen, we might not see him fight in 2023 the way things are going.
It would be a fight where Joshua would have to release the beast that might still be somewhere inside him...
I just cant imagine Joshua winning this fight. It's a near certainty that Wilder lands his right hand at some point and I'm almost certain Joshua couldn't handle it. Wilder should be screaming for this fight. Make it in the UK, give Doshua 70% and knock him out
Hopefully Hearn is just dropping names when he is mentioning the likes of Fury and Wilder as possible opponents for Joshua next,even Joyce at this point wrecks Joshua as well as a few other of the top 10 fighters. If Hearn does make these fights it is all about cashing the Joshua brand in at this point nothing else ! Wilder brutally KOs Joshua in first 3 rounds,Fury will clown Joshua and stop him when he feels like it and Joyce would just walk straight through him showing no respect. If Joshua wants to fight on let him fight Whyte but even this fight now after Joshua’s performance last night could well be a 50/50 affair now . Joshua has made an awful lot of money,is still healthy and should honestly sit down and consider other things at this point jmho .
