Comments Thread For: Anthony Joshua Relates To Mayweather as Critics Rise

[Deevel916]

This guy has 13 pro fights and is talking about how he can relate to Mayweather?

[SkillspayBills]

I think they have moved him perfectly. You don't have to rush these fighters. You want them to get on top and stay there when their time comes.

[Rip Chudd]

You know I think he should take on Amir Mansour. Think that would be a great fight for Joshua for as long as it lasts.

[RightJab]

Would young Hughie Fury not give AJ some rounds? I havent followed the younger Fury so much so thats why i ask????

He's a decent boxer isn't he? Similar sizes?

Just throwing it out there. Or a Steve Cunningham? Decent(ish) name on the resume?

[shoog]

Why put him in tough the british public will eat up anything just look at recent champs like brook and ricky burns and cleverley, you could line up stiff after stiff and theyd still think he was the next big thing, even price was thought of as some unstoppable beast coming out of the uk.
The only thing funnier than that are the brothers and theyre obsession with slamming golovkin, because hes the fair haired boy, and everyone likes him. Say what you want about GGG but theres no man with half a brain that would bet against GGG vs any middleweight on the planet, therin lies the difference.

[bigjavi973]

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Why put him in tough the british public will eat up anything just look at recent champs like brook and ricky burns and cleverley, you could line up stiff after stiff and theyd still think he was the next big thing, even price was thought of as some unstoppable beast coming out of the uk.
The only thing funnier than that are the brothers and theyre obsession with slamming golovkin, because hes the fair haired boy, and everyone likes him. Say what you want about GGG but theres no man with half a brain that would bet against GGG vs any middleweight on the planet, therin lies the difference.

GGG has been put up against stiff after stiff and you seem to have bought into it.

And he's 33 years old with 30+ fights

Joshua is 25 with 13 fights.

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

Surprising thing is Golovokin continues to line up bum after bum but is never criticised.

hes white..plus hes not associated with haymon

[SteveM]

Surprising thing is Golovokin continues to line up bum after bum but is never criticised.

Golovkin has been fighting top ten fighters for quite a while now. Joshua is just a very promising contender.

[BWC]

Why put him in tough the british public will eat up anything just look at recent champs like brook and ricky burns and cleverley, you could line up stiff after stiff and theyd still think he was the next big thing, even price was thought of as some unstoppable beast coming out of the uk.
The only thing funnier than that are the brothers and theyre obsession with slamming golovkin, because hes the fair haired boy, and everyone likes him. Say what you want about GGG but theres no man with half a brain that would bet against GGG vs any middleweight on the planet, therin lies the difference.

There is some truth to this. Look at the comparison between the domestic treatment of Wilder vs. Joshua. Wilder wins the WBC title and people in the US still dismiss him as a hypejob and a can crusher. He could knock out Povetkin and Wlad in the first round on the same night and people would say they were dehydrated or whatever.

Joshua knocks over 13 laughable cans and he's ready for Wlad and clearly the next HW champion over in the UK. I mean the disparity is just unreal.

For the record, I like Joshua and think the Hearns have done a magnificent job with him. Thirteen cans and the guy is the next Lewis and Tyson all at once in the boxing press. That's tremendous management..