Why are brits still interested in Joshua?

[STREET CLEANER]

The Brits are great boxing fans.

[TMLT87]

Ngannou is a wannabe boxer who ended up fighting in the octagon because he was useless in a boxing ring.

This is a BS narrative. He trained boxing for a few months and never had a single boxing match. Hes probably better than a decent percentage of the guys on Furys record. Theres a grand total of two (Yoka and Takam) HWs in his adopted country of France that would beat him, zero in his home country of Cameroon.

[TMLT87]

Joshuas stock has dropped significantly in the UK. Hes back at the 20k capacity 02 arena for this fight for the first time since 2016.

[SUBZER0ED]

Joshua is a good, former unified HW champion, who lost twice to one of the best fighters in the business in Usyk. He also lost to a short, fat guy who can ****, but he avenged that loss. I think it's premature to write him off. After all, Tyson Fury isn't exactly moving mountains to make an undisputed fight vs Usyk. And I haven't heard Wilder nor Ruiz call out Oleksandr.

[Rockybigblower]

Because they can relate to him. He's from the streets man. He about that life. And he's the anti-hero to Fury....who brits know as a dirty gypsy.

'Death threats are a way of life': Gypsies and Irish Travellers and ******s 'least-liked' in UK, survey finds

Abiline McShane, a British Romany Gypsy traveller, said she was not surprised by the findings - adding a drive-by shooting recently took place at a site and she often hears things like "let's blow them up in their caravans".

[tritium_arma]

Why do people still watch Canelo? He showed no fire against Bivol, never took the fight by the horns when he was obviously losing and had a sparring session against Golovkin, a guy he said he would beat down.

Just like with Canelo, there are many interesting fights for Joshua left. Joshua has a good combination of speed, power, and fundamentals that most of the other heavyweights don't have. A fight with Wilder would be interesting. I give him a good chance against Wilder simply because I question the chin of a guy who got KO'd by Fury who couldn't even drop a washed up Chisora (same guy who got knocked down repeatedly by featherfisted Parker) and couldn't KO bum Pianeta.

[hugh grant]

There is no path to victory. The way AJ is fighting and his level of confidence. It's not only meaningless, and it's boring.

The Ngannou fight will not be boring. He is about 3x stronger than Fury, which is a strength discrepancy we've never seen in boxing. Like Tony Bellew said: a freak show.

I don't see how you conclude Josh hasn't got confidence, just cos he tries not get hit by lucky Haymaker nowadays? Don't all fighters try not get hit and some pot shot to a 50 unbeaten record.
So you think wilder v josh will be boring? What if ngannou fought josh, would that be boring?

[786]

I kind of agree until that final sentence. I don't mind seeing AJ-Whyte 2, it's a must win for AJ if he wants to stay in the mix, both have declined and I expect AJ to play it safe and win a boring decision but it's a real fight that hopefully sets up Wilder.

As for Fury-Ngannou, it's not a real fight, pointless, meaningless cash-grab. AJ might be finished but at least he's fighting a real boxer whereas Fury seems like he definitely is done with the sport, he said after the third Wilder fight that he no longer wants to be in dangerous fights like that. After Whyte he said he'll just be doing exhibitions from now on and this is where we are. I'd be more surprised if he actually signs a real fight but we all saw the Usyk bull**** and he very clearly didn't want Zhang when that was a possibility. AJ is on his way out but Fury is done.

[Stuntman Mike]

I've been far more entertained by Joshua's career than fury or wilders on the long term.

Even Joshua's loss to Andy ruiz that's why I watch boxing.

Furys win over Wladimir was a horrible night entertainment wise.

Wilder most entertaining fight was him being schooled by ortiz then finding that bail out punch.


Obviously the fury wilder fights were entertaining somewhat but wilder brings so little in skill they're just one sided mismatches with a bit of drama but I'm talking like 1 min of drama after wilder lands something then fury just goes back to dominating.

Joshua's fight against Wladimir was one of the best heavyweight fights I've witnessed live.

Joshua will always be exciting because he's vulnerable and has decent skill and power to back it up.

I'd never write off Joshua even if he had a 3rd fight with Usyk I could still potentially see scenarios of him winning.

[shahida TKO]

AJ is the acceptable face of black people in the UK, he has been groomed by his media people to be white-friendly a bit like Floyd Patterson this why old English grandmas kiss him, when he walks into the ring, this is what the media promotes him so much and throws so much money at him, Unlike ali and tyson who refused to be something that they are naturally not, AJ has no such problems playing up to the " white man" whether hs knows it or not, this is the reason why he is liked so much because he is token whiteman even though he has a tattoo of Africa on his arm.