Comments Thread For: Salita Confident Otto Wallin Would Decision Anthony Joshua in Distance Fight

[JayCho]

I still think people are writing off AJ too much. He lost to a top 2 heavyweight! He’s not finished at the top level.

Wallin really needs to fight a top 20 HW to see where he’s at. Him and Salita have been dining out on the Fury loss for too long now and need to fight someone decent!

[JayCho]

Won't ever happen because AJ won't fight anyone at the top anymore.

Best to just keep fighting for a mandatory spot.

He’s just fought Usyk back to back! What makes you think he won’t fight anyone at the top now?

[Roberto Vasquez]

Wallin needs to fight someone actually in the top-10 before he gets to fight Joshua. Why would Joshua want to fight someone outside the top-10 who has something about him?? Only reason to fight someone outside the top-10 is for a rest-fight. Because what is the reward if you win? You beat someone everyone expected you to beat. See Fury and Chisora.

Won't ever happen because AJ won't fight anyone at the top anymore.

Best to just keep fighting for a mandatory spot.

He tried to fight Fury but Fury ran out after a couple of weeks because he was desperate to fight Derek Chisora again... That's the 2nd time Fury pulled out of a Joshua fight...

If I was AJ I would take an easy fight next to build some confidence, then go hard against Fury or Wilder. One thing about AJ is he always takes hard fights. Even Wilder admitted he ducked an AJ fight to fight a retired Fury instead. That backfired badly

[bullydean]

He’s just fought Usyk back to back! What makes you think he won’t fight anyone at the top now?

The fact AJ said he'll fight anyone yet already rejected a Wallin and Joyce fight weeks ago and is instead planning to fight Whyte again who got easily knocked out by Fury and got battered by a out of shape journeyman in the span of a couple months this year.

AJ will avoid any top contender until he gets a title shot again and if he wins the titles again he will most likely retire to avoid the top competition.

[JohnP2]

Dmitriy Is correct. Wallin has enough skill to keep it a war of attrition (the ONE thing AJ doesn’t want) and could possible piece him up in the later rounds.
regardless, all this “once in a generation heavyweight killer”! Is played out, and to be candid, I don’t think Hearns wants that smoke with Wallin.
They are going the Franklin, Whyte, Wilder cash-out road IMO. Maybe just maybe Wallin if he looks perfect against Franklin and they can catch Wallin at the right time…we’ll see, but Dmitriy know.

[JohnP2]

He’s just fought Usyk back to back! What makes you think he won’t fight anyone at the top now?

I think because his base is casuals. Thus if he were to lose four out of five, then his base will quickly lose interest in the manufactured hype train surrounding AJ and move on to something else—like they do.
Even Hearns has admitted we have “boxing fans” and we have “AJ fans”! The latter has significantly decreased and another loss at this stage would be catastrophic IMO.
So it’s not a matter or AJ worried about losing his ‘0’ it’s his management/promotional team milking every thing they can out of their cash cow. It’s just how boxing go, my man.