Anthony Joshua will be the next crossover star in Boxing

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He will do well until he walks into Joseph Parker and Alexander Povetkin

[Spacey1991]

that chin wont hold up long.

That's the only thing I'm unsure about with him, he clearly has talent but he hasn't been hit flush by a puncher yet, so it's hard to say at the moment, if he does have a suspect chin then that's a major disadvantage especially at HW, that's something we'll have to see sooner or later, for all we know he could take a shot well.

[Scipio2009]

Wtf, so all match room is going to be absorbed into al Haymon and pbc

Haymon does near all of his business in the United States; his competitive advantage seems to be the trust/confidence that he's picked up from US TV outlets for years of delivering on his word; Haymon's history of delivering content for Warner Brothers (The WB) and his trust/loyalty with Showtime/CBS, helping to basically undergird FNF for the last how many years, and the confidence that he was able to establish the Fox Sports through Schaefer (notice how GBL basically started it's slow death the moment that Schaefer was pushed out of that picture).

Outside of the US, Haymon's business is basically non-existent; Yvon Michel is Haymon's sole access point into the booming Montreal market which Michel controls, Chavez Jr makes his own call in Mexico (TV Azteca having seeming ties to HBO likely had more to do with the move to Televisa than anything), and Haymon has no real ties to any UK/Germany/Russia/EU promoters (though Box Nation does purchase a ton of US shows to fill out their TV programming).

The move by Matchroon Sport is a lot like the move that GYM made; Matchroom still gets sole promoting rights to their home region, but now Hearn has a massive conduit to getting his fighters extra exposure in the United States whenever viable (via events abroad on PBC or simply having access to American TV vs Showtime).

In the end, Haymon gets access to Matchroom fighters who have moved beyond simply fighting at domestic/European level, with the chance of really setting up some fights that could draw world interest (Khan-Brook, Selby battling with the other two full titleholders with Haymon [Russell Jr for the WBC and Jesus Cuellar for the WBA] and the quality challengers with Haymon [Mares-Santa Cruz winner, Jhonny Gonzalez, etc], the eventual build to a Wilder-Joshua showdown, James Degale being thrown in the mix, the eventual launch of Luke Campbell, etc).

everybody wins

[BOMB ZQUAD]

Not just Wilder. People are lining him up for Klitschko

I think we can safely say the Brits* are lining him up for Klitschko

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Damn that was hella gay
He can ride the gay boxer wave though like the other gay boxer

Floyd Mayweather?