Comments Thread For: Joshua: It's Amazing What Joseph Parker Done, He Showed Resilience Pays Off

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The 'Day of Reckoning' is done and, by the following morning, the desert dust settled on a very different heavyweight landscape. Questions swirled around Anthony Joshua all week. Why was the two-time unified heavyweight champion uninterested in talking to the media? Why had he decided to work
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[Tecnoworld]

AJ is so happy for this. All of a sudden, all his problems are gone. Wilder was totally faded, he easily won his bout vs Wallin and IBF will probably be on the line after Usyk and Fury collide.

So without facing any of the big 3, he can become champ in 2024.

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AJ is so happy for this. All of a sudden, all his problems are gone. Wilder was totally faded, he easily won his bout vs Wallin and IBF will probably be on the line after Usyk and Fury collide.

So without facing any of the big 3, he can become champ in 2024.

IBF is always there to screw someone when another pays well. No wonder AJ's aim there. It is embarrassing, but he and Eddie are proud.

[JakeTheBoxer]

AJ is so happy for this. All of a sudden, all his problems are gone. Wilder was totally faded, he easily won his bout vs Wallin and IBF will probably be on the line after Usyk and Fury collide.

So without facing any of the big 3, he can become champ in 2024.

So you are still living in a fantasy world about Wilder being some top 3 or whatever. In reality he can still KO many guys, but I believe many guys beat him.

[Lance98]

What a fake poser. He sounds so relieved like someone eliminated wilder for him. Never had the balls to challenge wilder when wilder was at his most dangerous.

[Sparked_26]

AJ is so happy for this. All of a sudden, all his problems are gone. Wilder was totally faded, he easily won his bout vs Wallin and IBF will probably be on the line after Usyk and Fury collide.

So without facing any of the big 3, he can become champ in 2024.

Hrgovic is stronger and more dangerous fight for less money.

So as its prizefighting probably not.

The ultimate prize has of course always been Fury for AJ and Matchroom.

There is an element of maybe Fury and Wilder took it out of eachother. And AJ although he took two clear loses wasn't really damaged physically and probably improved as a boxer through two intense camps and being in with someone as good as Usyk.

[Speng]

What a fake poser. He sounds so relieved like someone eliminated wilder for him. Never had the balls to challenge wilder when wilder was at his most dangerous.

Exactly right. Hearn and AJ both ecstatic that the fight they've been telling us is the biggest one in boxing, and avoided for the last 7 years, is off the table.

[Monty Fisto]

I'd hypothecate that if the contingency of a spelling disputation with AJ arose, I'd embarass him. The dissimilitude in our spelling proficiency would be so night and day, you'd have to be a chiaroscurist to depict it appositely.

[Monty Fisto]

What a fake poser. He sounds so relieved like someone eliminated wilder for him. Never had the balls to challenge wilder when wilder was at his most dangerous.

Well, of course that's how it sounds to you, because a combination of your dislike for him, your unawareness of what he actually said, and the absence of tone in the written word means that you read between the lines and perceive instead your own baggage.

Of course, if you actually have all he said to the media at hand, you'd realise that he actually said (and I quote verbatim):

"Me and him can still get it on, we can still get it crackin’. I believe I’m a massive threat. I still think Wilder is a threat and I still think it does amazing numbers if you get it on. But I’ll leave that down to my management, trainers, promoters, to make the decision. I’m down to fight anyone, whenever and whoever."

[The grammar police must caution AJ that the correct usage is: "I'm down to fight anyone, whenever and whomever." I'd kill him in a grammar contest as well as a spelling bee.]

[hennanra1000]

AJ is so happy for this. All of a sudden, all his problems are gone. Wilder was totally faded, he easily won his bout vs Wallin and IBF will probably be on the line after Usyk and Fury collide.

So without facing any of the big 3, he can become champ in 2024.

I think AJ put money (and smart matching to unify), to a large extent over legacy when it came to the biggest fights but I would split the blame equally (frankly all 3 were doing it - Wilder, Fury and AJ). Remember Wilder was promoted by PBC who were trying to marinade it and Eddie Hearn was a loud mouth that didn't help things. I think Fury cracked the code to beating Wilder (closing distance and not giving Wilder oxygen to load-up).

Fury definitely has claim to be first to beat both Klitschko in his prime and Wilder but there are some serious question marks on Fury discipline and how serious he takes the sport. Let's be honest Fury fought Wilder as it was his road-back to the boxing world after binging for 2 years that was also after a suspect drug scandal. He does get huge credit for having 2 further re-matches.

But I think what's important is where they are at NOW and here I see Joshua on an upward trajectory and Fury the opposite. That could change depending on 'which version' of Fury shows up to Usyk. I think Fury poor performance against Ngannou was probably good in terms of him going in with underdog mentality vs Usyk. I do feel a fatal flaw for Usyk has been shown up in Dubois fight (taking shots low on stomach - within legal range - no doubt Fury is going to go after that like a dog.

Re Wilder, I think that he was finished in fairness once Fury showed the 'code' to crack Wilder. I am not sure Joshua would be able to walk through Wilder like Parker did of course. Also Wilder inactivity hurts him badly. For Joshua to redeem himself I would like to see him fight:

- Fury
- Dubois
- Miller
- Zhang
- Joyce (maybe)
- Ngannou (maybe)

The last 3 for me are to prove he has the mental side recovered in fighting someone who can take his punishment and give it back.

I am not sure there is appetite for a 3rd Usyk fight but I see that ending same way.