By Edward Chaykovsky
Olympic gold medal winner Anthony Joshua (15-0, 15KOs) is predicting that he's going to pull off yet another brutal knockout on April 9th when he challenges undefeated IBF heavyweight world champion Charles Martin at the O2 Arena in London, Love on Sky Sports Box Office.
Martin captured the world title last month, with a third round TKO of Vyacheslav Glazkov at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Joshua's last fight came in December when he sparked out domestic rival Dillian Whyte in the seventh round. It was the longest fight of Joshua's career and the Olympian was stunned early in the contest.
Once he's able to stun Martin, Joshua is promising to let the punches fly with both hands. Unlike his fighter with Whyte, he intends to be calm and very calculated in the ring.
"It's so soon but when the opportunity has presented itself it was something we looked at seriously, as Charles Martin called me out," said Joshua to Sky Sports.
"When I go out to fight I go out to fight, I go out to knock people out and that's the same with all my opponents, that's why they've always been entertaining. That's why I think 15 fights in this opportunity has presented itself, because of the style and the way I come to fight." Martin is a completely different style of boxer but with Dillain I took it to a place it didn't need to go but I showed that I can fight his fight and still come out on top," said Joshua.
"[Whyte] was a bit more personal. That was a fight that could have come at any stage and it would have been the same fight whether it had been 50 fights into my career or 100 fights with tons of experience. Up until that last fight everything was going smoothly, I wouldn't say it was easy but I was handling business. That's the same attitude I'm going to take into this fight coming up.
"I'm going to keep it simple, get my boxing skills on but once I catch him and hurt him, I'm going to light him up and give him the best punch he's ever seen."
