Comments Thread For: Anthony Joshua ready to 'rise up' after loss to Daniel Dubois

[STREET CLEANER]

Can't say that AJ is too brave for his chin because when the fight doesn't go his way he starts to mentally break.

[VislorTurlough]

I see some on here referring to Joshua by the cute girlfriend name “Josh”. Freakin weird man

[PRINCEKOOL]

If the opportunity is there for Anthony Joshua to take the rematch against Daniel Dubois 'Then he has to take that fight, there is no rebuilding process for Joshua at this stage of his career. Only a comeback'.

Outside of the rematch with Daniel Dubois 'The best fight for Anthony Joshua are against Deontay Wilder, Andy Ruiz Junior III and Dillian Whyte II. All of those fights make complete sense to the boxing community, the sport and the all fighters involved'.

Skill for skill Joshua vs Dubois was truly Anthony Joshua's worst ever performance of his career. Many people have considered Anthony Joshua's second fight vs Oleksandr Uysk as one of his best performances ever skill for skill i.e His boxing fundamentals were impressive, and he never really made any mistakes in the fight. Joshua was quite simply beaten by the superior boxer in Oleksandr Uysk'.

Now? We all know that Joshua has never lost a fight, due to under preparation in terms of physical conditioning. But after spending some time to self reflect on the weekends Heavyweight title fight, I think Anthony Joshua underestimated Daniel Dubois in terms of? I don't think Anthony Joshua believed Daniel Dubois was a existential threat to his career.

Both Joshua and Dubois apparently had sparred 100's of rounds together 'Dubois famously was able to at least hurt Joshua in one of those sparring training sessions'.

But during the last press conference, Anthony Joshua remarked that he had sparred 100's of rounds against Daniel Dubois 'As Anthony Joshua stated this fact, he was looking in the direction of Daniel Dubois with quite a nonchalant demeaner'.

Note: I personally think Anthony Joshua for the most part was the dominant fighter vs Daniel Dubois in sparring 'In fact I am almost certain of this'.

When you hear fighters, bragging about decking or hurting esteemed fighters in sparring 'Usually, nearly all the time they behave this way because? Those are the only real positives they can take from the sparring'.

I don't really like cliche observations or sayings but? In three Heavyweights fights 'Francis Ngannou vs Tyson Fury, Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Uysk and Anthony Joshua vs Daniel Dubois. We have see two experienced fighters at heavyweight, get hurt very badly. Both Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua'.

Now people are kind of mocking Joshua for being hurt by Dubois 'But we have just seen Tyson Fury get smashed by Oleksandr Uysk in round 9, who historically is not renowned for his punching power'.

So I do wonder? When fighter's durability suddenly decreases 'There may be many more factors at play in preparation, and on fight night that we are not really aware of'.

I would not be overly surprised that if Tyson Fury fights Oleksandr Uysk in their rematch scheduled or 21st December 2024 'That Fury may appear to be many more times invulnerable to Uysk's power and physical attacks'.

Because when we observe and analyse Tyson Fury's career, it does not make linear sense 'How at times Fury can be decked and hurt badly by cruiserweights such as Steve USS Cunningham, to then fight Deontay Wilder and yes? Fury was hurt, but he eventually he overcame and endured Wilder's power'.

To conclude: Therefore it is not inconceivable for me, that if Anthony Joshua does rematch Daniel Dubois 'In that fight, Joshua may be able to withstand and endure the power of Daniel Dubois more impressively'.

When you compete and train in certain sports, enough to the point where 'You internally document all your performances, and perceptions of effort. Sometimes your performance's do not sync with your perception of effort'.

That is why the most important statistic in life, or any sort of ambition you are pursuing 'Is your effort, the force you put into your actions'.

Twice now in Anthony Joshua's career, he has had performances vs Andy Ruiz Junior I and Daniel Dubois. Were I am sure he would say, his entire game and all of his attributes did not sync. The only positives he could take from both fights, is that he kept on getting back up after being whacked and trying to win'.

Maybe in the whole greater scheme of Anthony Joshua's story in boxing, he had to go through and experience this moment. Maybe this is a form of resistance, that he has to overcome to prove his greatness'.

Greatness is not just great, because it says that it is great. It was actually Teddy Atlas who stated: 'Greatness needs resistance to overcome, in order to prove it's greatness'.

This is the greatest form of resistance, Anthony Joshua has ever encountered in his career 'This is due to the stage of his career, the perception that people within the community, certain folk in public have of him. And the manner in how Anthony Joshua lost his fight to Daniel Dubois'.

Can Mountains resurrect themselves? Can Anthony Joshua comeback? It is simple as that with Anthony Joshua. There is no rebuilding process at this stage in the battle. Only a potential comeback' etc.

[baroidi]

throw Joshua a few more MMA guys to knock out and the brit casuals will get all excited about the bodybuilder again. Hearn knows the formula

[Corelone]

Eddy made, home built, crystal skull robot. Home town decisions in the olympics. Bought Furys trashed belts from lotto winners. Saudi rigging to out run a fat man. On and on, too much meddling.

[wrecksracer]

At some point, somebody needs to look out for this guy's health. I guess the money is too good. No amount of coaching is going to change him. When he gets hit right, he checks out. I tuned into this fight during the second round and could see the look on his face.

[Phase III]

Oh please spare us the BS. AJ has made almost $400M since the first Ruiz fight. AJ cannot take a shot to his chin. He fights like a deer in headlights. Mentally, he shows he cannot fight against and HW who can crack.

The Eddie Hearn AJ hype machine is a joke. AJ should retire and think about his health. AJ is a tremendous underachiever. Hearn is only interested in Turki money and will sacrifice AJ so long as Turki is filling his pockets with money that he does not deserve.

[eco1]

UK fans have low standards, and few options.

So far they have more HW options than us right now.

[Oldskoolg]

coming from a wilder fan who was just starched by a big clumsy Chinese man…..your country has not had decent heavyweight in over 25 years now and it’s been ruled by Europe since you eating mashed baby food lol

I’m from Salford, what proper yank uses the term piss up…and I’m not a wilder fan

[Boksingfan]

Not an AJ fan myself, but in reply to all of those stating he's finished, why are we ignoring the fact that his fight plan was all wrong ? Hands low, chin high, poor footwork, could not establish the jab, did not take advantage of his reach. The "fine margins" that AJ referred to, such as Dubois' superior speed, may have had an impact, but, obviously, so did the big blunders. That knockdown in the first was avoidable, and paved the way for what followed.