GMR_Evans

The two worst challengers for the undisputed world heavyweight title were both Joe Frazier's - Terry Daniels and Ron Stander.

Gracious of Joshua to say this, but perhaps he's being falsely modest. Even at his best, Tyson struggled against bigger heavyweights who could move - not just Buster Douglas, but, earlier, he was was given a competitive fight by Tony Tucker, who is nowhere near Joshua's quality, and a close run by James 'Quick' Tillis - and perhaps this is going too far back, but from most accounts Lennox Lewis got the better of him in their week of sparring in 1984. Joshua is not a bad mover and with his power, strength he would have had a chance against Tyson.

Gmr You can criticise Khan for his chin, his inclination to duke it out, but not for his courage. He went head-to-head with big hitters like Maidana & Garcia, he tried everything to get in with the two best men in his division, Pacman and Mayweather, and when that didn't wash he moved up two divisions to fight Canelo.

gmr Warren is so predictable and tiresome. When he has a boxer, he praises him to the hilt. When a boxer fights for a rival, he denigrates him. When he didn't have Tyson Fury he told us Chisora would whip him, and so on and so on. If he had Joshua, he would extol his wonders. He doesn't so he wriggles with envy. His comparison between the chins of Joshua and Ali is silly at this stage. When Ali was at Joshua's stage of his career, he'd been dropped heavily by two very small cruiserweights (Banks and Cooper). If it had been Klitschko's right cross rather than Cooper's left hook, would he have risen in time? We don't know. But he went on the deserve a reputation for having a firm chin, as did Joe Frazier, who was dropped 11 times (and stopped three times) in 30-odd outings.

GMREvans Oh Warren, you really are pathetic. Describing Fury as the real heavyweight king is just silly. He officially retired, he twice pulled out of contracted fights with Klitschko, and admitted drug-taking, and he has not fought for nearly three years. He was champion but is no longer so.

Gmr Oh Warren you silly man. Why drag in Hearn when he doesn't bother with you? Accept your status as Britain's number two promoter (a distant two), and let's see if you still have two alphabet title holders a year from now.

Gmr Oh pull the other one Warren. No-one is avoiding Smith. He's just not that marketable and not that good. At a push he's maybe about the 10th light-middleweight in the world. Brook isn't interested because he's in a different division, and, frankly, is on a different, far higher, level.

Gmr Put a sock in it Warren. It must gall you to be a distant number two in the UK promotional stakes, but have you noticed that number one doesn't demean himself by bothering to respond? And, by the way, Flanagan might or might not be better than Crolla, but he has nowhere near the profile or status, so Crolla would be underselling himself to agree to a 50-50 purse and promotional deal.

Gmr Linares is the man recognised as WBC champion, and he is a far bigger name in world boxing than Flanagan. If Crolla beats him, it will mean more to his international status than if he beats Flanagan. Warren needs to get it into his head that whatever Flanagan's talents he is virtually unknown outside his back yard. Crolla, in contrast, is a 'name' because of his heroics outside and inside the ring.

re 'Karoriori': Wilder the worst heavyweight title holder in history? Really? So you think Leon Spinks, Bruce Seldon, Frans Botha, Primo Carnera, Tommy Burns etc. etc. would have beaten him? Pull the other one.

GMR Evans It's good that Saunders admits he's 18 months away from Golovkin (18 years more like it, but still). But if he says that, then what right does he have to call himself a 'world champion' or even 'WBO world champion'. If you are champion of the world, you should, at the very least, regard yourself as the best in the world, confident of beating everyone else in your division.

Gmr Warren is plain wrong when he says Fury is the 'lineal' world champion. The last lineal world champion was Lennox Lewis and Fury didn't beat Lewis. Klitschko did not hold the WBC title, generally considered the most prestigious of the four. He held the Ring belt, but lost that because he announced his retirement. When you retire the line of succession is broken. Fury has been out for two-and-a-half years and is now making a comeback. By the time he fights Joshua or Wilder he would have been out for around four years. He will be a former champion and challenger. That is all. And while Warren sings his praises now, I remember him telling us that Derrick Chisora would beat him. And does he really think that a man who got knocked down heavily by the aged cruiserweight Steve Cunningham (who also outboxed him for six rounds), would stand up to the power of Wilder or Joshua? Pull the other one.

Gmr Warren just can't help himself having digs at boxers he doesn't promote (and that's all of the UK's most marketable boxers). He's pathetic. Baby Fury has no hope of beating Joseph Parker, who should, instead, go for a unification bout with Wilder. And the idea that Tyson Fury will return in mint condition and beat the likes of Joshua is fanciful. What galls Warren is that Joshua is now the biggest name in the division, and if he beats Klitschko, he'll be huge.

Nonsense Warren. Fury relinquished his title because he was unable to fight. Joshua is number one in the world, but for him to be world champion he will need to beat Wilder, the other leading claimant. But to say Joshua isn't champion until he beats Fury is like saying Jack Johnson wasn't champion until he beat Jeffries.

The first fighter to win a lightweight title (WBA and WBO) and a super- middleweight title (WBC) was Dingaan Thobela.

Gmr ... and aside from Fitzsimmons, Henry Armstrong won the world featherweight title, then the world welterweight title, then the world lightweight title.

Gmr Boxers from the past always say they could have whipped boxers from the present. It goes all the way back to the bareknuckle 'legends', and from there to the early gloved champions, but the films of their fights suggest otherwise. Duran sometimes had trouble with highly skilled movers - Benitez, Leonard in the return, Kirkland Laing - and when De Jesus beat him at lightweight he too showed plenty of lateral movement. All of these losses were in Duran's peak years and all of those losses were clearcut. I would pick a prime Pernell Whitaker to beat a prime Duran, and Mayweather would also have a very good chance of squeaking home.

Gmr Wilder is wrong about no-one having moved down in weight to win a world title. Bob Fitzsimmons first won the world middleweight title, then the world heavyweight title, then the world light-heavyweight title.

GMREvans The ref was overly-officious but that affected Joshua more than Parker. Several times he separated them unnecessarily when AJ was starting to tee-off. Also, the scoring wasn't wildly out. I made it nine rounds to three (117-111).

This list is silly. Far too heavyweight centric and even then it is wonky. Peter Jackson was a far better boxer than Sullivan, who refused to fight black boxers. Harry Greb was far better than Dempsey who avoided him and drew the colour line with Harry Wills.

Gmr 18 months ago Eubank stepped out of the novice nursery and held Billy Joe to a split decision. If he'd got going earlier, he would have won. In his four fights since then he's shown more improvement than BJS, and would probably beat Saunders if they fought today. Presumably he turned down Warren's offer because he didn't want to fight for Warren on Warren's terms. The idea that Saunders has any hope against GGG is no less silly than Eubank's boasts in that regard. And Warren knows it.

Gmr The idea that Joshua/Hearn are avoiding Luis Ortiz is really quite silly. What does Ortiz bring to the table? His only notable win came in beating Bryant Jennings in 2015. Jennings, who'd already been beaten by Klitschko, is no longer rated. On the basis of that win Hearn started promoting him with the idea of him as a future Joshua opponent. But Ortiz stunk the place out against Malik Scott and Dave Allen, so Hearn let him go. Five months ago he challenged a seriously underweight Deontay Wilder and got dropped three times and stopped in 10. He's 39-years-old and has previously failed a drugs test. Joshua is avoiding no-one. His programme is his mandatory against Povetkin, then Wilder (if Wilder signs the contract), then either Miller or Whyte, then Tyson Fury or Usyk - with a mandatory or two thrown in. There just isn't room for Ortiz unless he beats one of the names on this list.

Let's get this straight: Billy Joe Saunders is not a 'world middleweight champion'. The middleweight division is one of the few where there is a world champion and his name is Gennady Golovkin. Saunders is a WBO title holder. That is all.

Warren's claim is one of the silliest things I have read for a while. First, in terms of A-side pulling power AJ is in a different planet from Joyce or Dubois. Second, in terms of boxing talent, there is also a big gap that probably won't be closed. Joshua would easily outbox Joyce and he'd flatten Dubois. But those fights won't happen because Joyce and Dubois are not players on Joshua's scale. He needs a warm-up, then perhaps Wilder, then the Usyk-Fury winner.

Gmr Tyson Fury is not, and has never been, the 'lineal' world heavyweight champion and Warren stating this doesn't make it any more true. The last undisputed champion was Lennox Lewis but after his retirement the belts were split up. Wladimir Klitschko never won the WBC title (held by Wilder) so he was never undisputed or 'lineal' champion. His status was the same as Anthony Joshua's - one big belt short of undisputed. In addition, Fury retired from the ring and was banned for drug abuse, and has not fought for two-and-a-half years. If he wins a couple of bouts he will be simply a contender and former title holder. No more. No less.

Gmr Hughie Fury pulled out of a fight with Dillian Whyte because his dad decided he wasn't ready for that level of competition. So if he's not up for Whyte after 20 outings, when is he ever going to be ready for Joshua?

Gmr Why would Brook have any interest in fighting Liam Smith? First, Smith is unknown outside of the UK; second, he's in a different weight division; third, despite his title, he's barely in the top 10 in his division. He offers no risk to Brook but scant reward either. Brook is after bigger fish than Smith, and at welterweight not light-middleweight.

Dempsey (or his people) also avoided Harry Greb, who wanted to fight him. Kearns said he wanted 'no part of that seven year itch'. And Dempsey personally drew the colour line, announcing in 1919 that he refused to fight black challengers. And he made several racist statements both before and after his title reign. One of them was to attack Greb for fighting Tiger Flowers, whom he called 'that n...'

GMR Evans I notice that the only name Lomachenko fails to mention is the best of them all: Walters. Not so long ago, when asked about Walters, his people said the man was too big, which is absurd because he came make featherweight just as easily as Lomachenko, who, in any event, is toying with the idea of moving up to super-featherweight. It suggests that either Lomachenko or his people are scared of Walters....

Gmr For me, the best chin in heavyweight history, perhaps in boxing history, belonged to Oliver McCall. He was never dropped in 73 fights and took some huge punches along the way, including from big hitters like Lennox Lewis and Frank Bruno. I only once saw him wobbled (momentarily) and that was after absorbing a huge right flush on the chin by Lewis.