Povetkin was the one that needed more time to prepare when the fight was on the table. They will fight next and Povetkin will be put to sleep like Szpilka.
Wlad has admitted publicly to not being ready to fight AJ
Pulev is on video refusing to consider fighting AJ
Who do yall want this guy to fight?
That Wlad fight was never going to happen, that was Hearn trying to make Joshua look like he wanted a big fight. They put out a list of opponents and chose the weakest one.
Dunno why everyone is complaining. Haye won't take the fight until next year, Fury is off on sabbatical, Parker and Povetkin are committed elsewhere and Wilder and Wlad are injured.
Who else are you going to get but a fringe contender/bum at that notice? And make no mistake about it, that's exactly what glassjaw Price, Chisora, Briggs etc are.
We all know Haye & Klitchko are coming up next year, and who genuinely wants Joshua to jeopardise that? Just don't buy the PPV.
They faked like they really wanted the Klitschko fight. Then put out a list of opponents and chose the one who they deemed the weakest.
Personally I think this is the best of the 3 options they were talking about. Wasn't gonna be somebody great on short notice after they couldn't get Parker or Klitschko in there. Hopefully it is a loaded undercard. I expect Joshua by brutal KO within 4. Hopefully after this it's a mandatory defense against Pulev in the spring and then a stadium fight with Klitschko in the summer.
This was not a short notice fight, Molina was their choice all along.
lol he didn't come close to losing the fight man. I had it 2-2 after 4 rounds, Thurman took over from there and I gave him the rest of the rounds except 1. And nobody is saying beating Chaves means he's the best boxer in the world. Nobody even hypes up Thurman, everyone accepts that he hasn't beaten any elite opponents, but he has beaten some good C level fighters and done it well, so he passes the eye test.
The reason he hasn't fought higher level of competition is because nobody wants to fight him. He's been openly turned down by multiple fighters in the top 10.
Maidana pulled out of the Thurman fight with two weeks to go because Thurman had 'too many KOs' or something like that, that's what Maidana's team said. The fact that he signed to fight him and then pulled out is what makes it a duck. Also it's not like he pulled out to fight some elite fighter for a big payday...he fought Soto Karass instead.
I like Thurman, but people keep giving Thurman passes because he is vocal and says he wants to fight the big fighters. He is speaking a good game, but actions speak louder than words. In reality he is cherry picking like all the other fighters, but since people want him to be the Mayweather slayer he gets a pass. He does whatever Al Haymon tells him to do, so I don't take what he says serious.
Thurman has consistently call out the bigger names, saying numerous times he wants to fight them, and not once has he ever turned them down when they were presented to them so no, he's not cherry picking and you have no proof that he is.
Like I said he speaks a good game. Its a good show of bravado, but up until this point he has not fought a good fighter. He is posturing and making his name known. While he does that he accepts whatever fight Haymon tells him to accept.
Little G is a hype job. His team is always finding ways to say someone doesn't want to fight. Why not just call Saunders and Jacobs bluff and offer them the money they want? Why won't he call a fighter at 168 out? Why not call someone at 154 out? What happened to only being concerned with unification? Now his fans are using money as his motivation, when they bashed Floyd for years.
Those Glaser numbers were all good for the Floyd fights. I will go with his number for this fight. Oscar has his hired hands doing some damage control.
People really are selective on what they believe from a person. One minute Stephen A knows nothing. But when it supports a person narrative he is the all knowing one.