Finally excited about a Heavyweight - Antony Joshua

[miamike]

Stopped reading after you said the K bros excited you.

Me too

[Earl-Hickey]

I hope he delivers, but we have just been stung way too many times for me to be completley invested in him, for all we know he's packing a David Price jaw.

It's going to be a long time, as in years until we see him in with a real operator, so until then i'll reserve judgment.

[LacedUp]

I hope he delivers, but we have just been stung way too many times for me to be completley invested in him, for all we know he's packing a David Price jaw.

It's going to be a long time, as in years until we see him in with a real operator, so until then i'll reserve judgment.

AJ is clearly on another level to Price in every department. I think that's easy to see.

He's also improving with every fight - something I don't really think Price did in the early stages of his career.

And this is coming from the biggest Price fan on this forum!

[White_Knight]

In saying the following I don't mean to cause offense to my British brothers, because I like Brits and have British ancestry myself. However, there have been too many occassions of British fans letting their hopes run away with them. Let's take a stroll down memory lane:

1) Brits authentically believe Haye has a chance of beating Wlad. Some British bookies even have Haye as the favourite. When the fight finally transpires, we see Haye give Wlad less of a challenge than Peter or Ibagimov.

2) Then there was the case of David Price. I remember a writer for Boxrec saying David Price would finish 2013 undefeated, even if he faced a Klitschko. Rather than finishing the year undefeated, he ends it with 2 losses to a 40-year-old

3) Finally, Audley Harrison was going to resurrect his career by beating "the American hypejob" Deontay Wilder. Harrison gets demolished within a minute.

[Tom Cruise]

In saying the following I don't mean to cause offense to my British brothers, because I like Brits and have British ancestry myself. However, there have been too many occassions of British fans letting their hopes run away with them. Let's take a stroll down memory lane:

1) Brits authentically believe Haye has a chance of beating Wlad. Some British bookies even have Haye as the favourite. When the fight finally transpires, we see Haye give Wlad less of a challenge than Peter or Ibagimov.

I don't think any bookies had Haye favourite. Also it wasn't just British fans who thought Haye would provide a test

2) Then there was the case of David Price. I remember a writer for Boxrec saying David Price would finish 2013 undefeated, even if he faced a Klitschko. Rather than finishing the year undefeated, he ends it with 2 losses to a 40-year-old

Plenty of Brits saw the Price hype being ended. People from all over the world were being sold on the Price hype. See Fat Dan Rafael's article proclaiming Price to be the best prospect in boxing.

3) Finally, Audley Harrison was going to resurrect his career by beating "the American hypejob" Deontay Wilder. Harrison gets demolished within a minute.

NO-ONE though Audley was going to beat Wilder. I don't know where that has come from.

Also if you check you'll notice most are being quite reserved about Joshua. He gets talked about a lot because he is in the news quite a lot over here, but generally most understand he has a long way to go if he's going to make it. Christ he's only been boxing for like 5years

[Szef]

Hughie Fury looks to be more polished IMO. Joshua is kinda stiff and I think he has a shaky chin.

[Juof]

I like him aswell he has a lot to learn though. He seems more like a physical fighter than a mental one I do see him getting beat at euro level but who knows he could improve a bunch by then

[Isaac Hunt]

Hughie Fury looks to be more polished IMO. Joshua is kinda stiff and I think he has a shaky chin.

I agree with you I would take Fury to beat Joshua. I like Joshua as a person,he comes over really well but he does not come over as a figher to me for some reason. Athlete yes but fighter no and I see him coming unstuck when he steps up. That is my gut feeling and I hope I am wrong.

[White_Knight]

NO-ONE though Audley was going to beat Wilder. I don't know where that has come from.

I got it from people on this very forum. People even said they were going to put money on Harrison. The hype was such that I was almost pulled into it and had a look at the bookies odds even though I'm not a betting man.

[Box Up!]

I dont think it's a knee jerk reaction with AJ. Natural talent in boxing, like all sports, tends to separate itself from the rest quite clearly, and he certainly falls into that bracket.

Perhaps he's flattered by the fact that his competition is so dire, so plenty of pinches of salt before the jury can delivery it's verdict. As my original post points out, he is finally a HW who excites, so fits the bill, looks the part and thus far is delivering.

There is a LONG road ahead of him, and i certainly dont believe a loss will do him any harm, in fact i wish British and US fight fans were more like our Mexican brothers and almost encourage it! There's no shame in losing, we do tend to over emphasise it's importance.

No, he's doing really well, and the worlds NEEDS talent in the HW division, as like it or not, it's the big guys that carry the sport into the living rooms of casual fans, and without them, boxing suffers, so i think everyone should get behind him - or ANYONE else in the HW division that's coming through the ranks who looks the real deal, these guys are life blood and the future of OUR sport.