How would you rate Anthony "AJ" Joshua's career?

[IanPullman]

AJ had a solid run...unified champ, Olympic gold, big fights in front of massive crowds. He’s had ups and downs, but he's still a top name and marketable heavyweight.

[STREET CLEANER]

Good marketable fighter that was more hype than substance. Dude has skills but when the fight is not going his way he starts mentally giving up.

[RingoKid]

On the fabric comprising Heavyweight boxing underwear, he'd be somewhere between a skidmark and a cumstain...

[jreckoning2]

There are 10,000 boxers who haven't even come close to what he's done, so despite some bad losses, he has had a great career overall.

[Elastic Recoilz]

I feel similar to Canelo, AJ has many asterix' next to his achievements and wins. Firstly before he even turned pro he realistically lost in the Olympics; in the first round to the Cuban and thren in the final to the Italian - he got the gold as the home country fighter.

Then he turn's pro and has the money and privileges fully behind him - he essentially bought the IBF belt of Charles Martin (Martin could've actually got up but stayed down smiling). Against Klitschko he won the vacant wba belt in a decent performance but if we're being real Klitschko was 42 years old with one foot out the door and he should've finished AJ in round 6 - AJ got off the canvas and was out on his feet but Klitschko let him off. Against Parker he won the wbo belt but the referee was clearly on the payroll, he broke them up every time as soon they got close to halt the inside work of Parker. The Povetkin win hasn't aged well as we saw how he should've lost to Hunter and did lose to whyte... He then loses ALL his titles in his breakout fight in America - a fight in which he was knocked down 4 times and permanently mentally traumatised. He became two time unified champion against a Ruiz in TERRIBLE shape, at a career high weight,who had no realistic chance of winning. He went 9 rounds with Pulev, fought extremely cautiously against Franklin, stopped walin (already familiar with and had his number from previous spars)... when AJ did fight top fighters in Usyk and Dubois he was outclassed twice and then knocked out in front of the highest gate in UK history.

In terms of achievements, yes he achieved good things and made shed loads of money - mainly due to the power of Matchroom Boxing and his management. He is a decent fighter with solid fundamentals and very good power. However he is nothing special at all when compared to some of the names who've graced the division. If AJ fought in the 90's era he would've got ironed out on a regular basis.

[NihonJim]

On the fabric comprising Heavyweight boxing underwear, he'd be somewhere between a skidmark and a cumstain...

So where do you rate pudding Parker, the guy who lost his only world title to AJ

AJ had a far better career than pudding

AJ Career:

2x unified heavyweight champion

WBA
WBO
IBF

9x world title fights won

Olympic gold medal

Pudding career:

1x heavyweight title (never unified)

WBO (the worst one)

3x world title fights won (and one of those was vs Razvan Cojanu)



You have to stop talking so much **** man.

[Idunnoshet]

Very successful career.
It's " Prizefighting ".

Bet half the living HOFers wish they made Half the money AJ did.