Comments Thread For: Hearn: A Lot Of Unknowns About AJ; Coming Off Two Defeats; Mentally, Where's He At?

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

NEW YORK - Eddie Hearn looks at Anthony Joshua's upcoming fight as an opportunity to determine what the 33-year-old former heavyweight champion has left after suffering back-to-back points defeats to Oleksandr Usyk.
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[Corelone]

AJ has unknowns? He's been in the spotlight since the London Olympics. Built in Eddys robot factory, London UK. Eddy bought him Furys scrap, what Fury won on the road vs an all time great. The first time out of the box and Andy lays AJ out. It's taken all of Hearn's scheming to keep AJ upright. When a fighter with every advantage, height, weight, reach hometown, officials, pay, can't win, the "unknowns" don't matter.

[Boxing 112]

Where's he at? Finished based on his Usyk rant and the Franklin press conference doesn't even seem like he's hungry for the sport no more

[Bob]

I've never seen Aj look so big. Out of camp weight? or hopefully we get brute Aj?
I'm not enthusiastic about the fight but it's definitely the type of fight's Aj needs for 2023, no matter what the paper's say.
Just heard Hearn mention belts splitting & Hrgovic paper belt. Yawn.

[VislorTurlough]

Bro is a vegetable. Shattered confidence and in athletic and cognitive decline

[thack]

The amount of money Joshua gets payed he should be fighting Wilder's every fight. He seems 'diffrerent' in a recent interview, so give him his pass and hope he then up's the ante or I for one am switching him off for good.

[fullers]

Oh please. If he beats a nobody outside the top15 then hearn will claim he's the reincarnation of Ali. He's an entitled spoilt kid who has meltdowns when he doesn't get his own way. Both usyk and Fury way way above this clown.

[GBP4LIFE]

No more unknowns.. AJ is not elite.. end of story.. fighting some fat chump from Detroit

[Jab jab boom]

Not many unknowns here. Aj is a limited boxer who gasses in fights and is mentally fragile. The only unknown is if his opponent is good enough to bring out the b**ch in Aj.

[MastaBlasta]

This should be pretty easy for Joshua. No disrespect to Jermaine Franklin, but Joshua is too experienced and has too many weapons. If this becomes a 'good fight' it will mean Joshua's mental state really is in disarray. Unless of course Jermaine Franklin shows us a lot more activity and aggression than he ever has. That would be a good career plan for Franklin ... be three times more active, and significantly increase the aggression. What he showed in the Whyte fight should come nowhere near close to winning him this fight.

AJ working with the Texas crew will be pretty dangerous .... if he actually buys in to what they do. He has to stop over-thinking during the fight, and get comfortable 'winging it'. Being around Spence and the Charlos should help with that, if they actually embrace him into the fold. Could make him much more dangerous.