Comments Thread For: Anthony Joshua Eyes Deontay Wilder Sooner Than Later

[BOMB ZQUAD]

Tyson will be a great third wheel for these guys but he has no chin. Both Wilder and Joshua have way too much power for Fury..

Debatable.. Wilder's right hand is like a sledgehammer, Anthony Joshua is powerful altogether. But I think Fury will handle their punches (not necessarily win, but can take some hits)

[NEETzsche]

Tyson will be a great third wheel for these guys but he has no chin. Both Wilder and Joshua have way too much power for Fury..

those guys will all be perfectly capable of knocking out each other. wilder has looked chinny in the past and joshua was hurt several times in the ams. in fact, i'd wager that fury has the strongest whiskers of the three. i know people go on about the cunningham punch, but that was a failing of his defence more than his chin; that was a sweet connection from a >200 lbs man and fury got up and shook it off

[joe strong]

I can imagine Wilder will have a few losses to his name by the time this fight comes around.

love the sig... that was still one of the coolest knockouts I ever seen... Wilder will have to get by Povetkin if this fight is ever going to happen in the near future...

[low blows]

Wach and Arreola would be good tests for Joshua in the next 12 months. Test his stamina and his defence

Wach maybe but Arreola is shot. His last fight against the flabby club fighter showed that he doesn't have it to be a true gatekeeper type anymore. Even when he was fat he wouldn't look that bad against that level of opponent.

[beez721]

People are often asking where the next Mike Tyson is. He's here, he's AJ.

Mike Tyson won a title after 28 fight which was the record until Vitali Klitschko did it in 25 fights (WBO). Could Joshua potentially do it before? I think so, especially if Klitschko retires and vacates his belts.

totally different type of fighter than tyson but he does have the goods to be a dominating champ imo. hell id make him a favorite over wilder right now and id be nervous for wlad if they were to fight tomorrow. the dude has some things going for him for sure

[KnockoutNed]

He could easily knock Wilder out today. He has far more skills than Wilder.

[jknightx]

People are often asking where the next Mike Tyson is. He's here, he's AJ.

Mike Tyson won a title after 28 fight which was the record until Vitali Klitschko did it in 25 fights (WBO). Could Joshua potentially do it before? I think so, especially if Klitschko retires and vacates his belts.

Actually, Mike Tyson holds the record for youngest man to ever win the heavy weight title and become the youngest undisputed heavy weight champion.

Leon Spinks beat Ali for the the heavy weight title at only 8 pro fights.

[hugh grant]

Wilder beat Stiverne after 30 pro fights. But I doubt Stiverne would have beat Wilder even if Wilder only had 15 pro fights, Stiverne is that bad. And Wileer is in right place at right time.

Its about how cautious you want to be. If padding out your record fighting chumps makes you happy then go for it. But you just got to make sure you fight some 12 round fights and not 4 rounders.

But if Joshua was lucky enough to have guys like Stiverne to beat he would be champ already.

[Fury4daWIN]

those guys will all be perfectly capable of knocking out each other. wilder has looked chinny in the past and joshua was hurt several times in the ams. in fact, i'd wager that fury has the strongest whiskers of the three. i know people go on about the cunningham punch, but that was a failing of his defence more than his chin; that was a sweet connection from a >200 lbs man and fury got up and shook it off

Agreed. Fury's KDs were mainly due to lapses in concentration than any inherent weakness in the chin department, else he would have never recovered from those knockdowns, let alone gone on to win the fights. Since then he's taken solid shots from bigger punchers than Cunningham and Pajcek and come out just fine.

Wilder doesn't seem to have that bad a chin either, given some of the punches he took from Stiverne. Joshua it's impossible to say at this stage. He's certainly filled out since his amateur days so it's probably not the best thing to judge him from those.

[Quiksilva]

Oh man. I'm in love with AJ