I don’t consider this a risk. The O2 Arena, that’s my arena. I’m comfortable everywhere I go. When eyes are on me, I’m going to perform. “I know how to move my head and be evasive. Real true analysts see the things I do. They can tell.
LONDON – IBF Heavyweight World Champion Charles Martin and unbeaten British Olympic Gold Medalist Anthony Joshua faced off at the final press conference on Thursday at Four Seasons Hotel in London as they near Saturday’s heavyweight showdown, live on SHOWTIME from The O2.
LONDON – IBF Heavyweight World Champion Charles Martin and unbeaten British Olympic Gold Medalist Anthony Joshua faced off at the final press conference on Thursday at Four Seasons Hotel in London as they near Saturday’s heavyweight showdown, live on SHOWTIME from The O2.
Anthony Joshua (15-0, 15 KOs) may have been billed as the star attraction at London’s O2 Arena on Saturday night, but Charles Martin (23-0-1, 21 early) insists that he will leave the ring with his IBF heavyweight title as well an Olympic scalp on his resume and is not there to make up the numbers.
By Cliff Rold - America’s Charles Martin captured one of the major belts in the Heavyweight division, IBF variety, in January with a win over Vyacheslav Glazkov. The win didn’t make him the best heavyweight in the world. One could fairly say a win over Glazkov is barely enough to register into an objective top ten, especially with nothing else of note to go with it. That’s typically not what matters in...
Audley Harrison is backing Anthony Joshua to outdo him by adding a world heavyweight title to Olympic glory. 'A-Force' won the super-heavyweight gold in Sydney 2000 only to fall short when he lost his WBA challenge to then-champion David Haye a decade later in 2010.
Charles Martin doesn’t think Anthony Joshua is ready for what he’ll encounter Saturday night at a sold-out O2 Arena in London. The 6-foot-5, 250-pound Martin predicted during a conference call Monday that Joshua will tire early in their scheduled 12-round fight for Martin’s IBF heavyweight title and that he’ll knock out the heavily hyped British contender.
Charles Martin is planning to use a blueprint perfected by Floyd Mayweather when he makes the first defence of his IBF heavyweight title against the "stiff" Anthony Joshua in London on Saturday.
As previously reported, Tyson Fury says Anthony Joshua will need a miracle to beat Charles Martin and win the IBF heavyweight title.
Both Anthony Joshua and his promoter Eddie Hearn have spent the early parts of fight week making Mike Tyson comparisons. Joshua has suggested that his performance against Charles Martin on Saturday in their IBF heavyweight title bout will be reminiscent of Iron Mike's thrashing of Trevor Berbick. Hearn went so far as to say Joshua was the closest thing he'd seen to Tyson offensively since the Hall of Famer hung 'em up.