Comments Thread For: Hearn: Joshua Gets Tough Test on 4/9, Maybe Chisora

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This past Saturday night at the O2 Arena in London, Olympic champion Anthony Joshua defeated former kick-boxer Dillian Whyte to take the British heavyweight title with a bruising seventh-round knockout and edge closer to a possible shot at the world crown.

The 26-year-old took his record to 15 knockouts from 15 fights since turning pro after winning 2012 Olympic gold in London.
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[HWChampion]

Josh should really be fighting more often dec to April for a prospect is a lot of time!!! He should fight in feb, then April!!

[starjammer]

Josh should really be fighting more often dec to April for a prospect is a lot of time!!! He should fight in feb, then April!!

Definitely, but they want every fight as PPV now so expect him to fight as regularly as Sky's PPV model allows.

[gmc_rfc_06]

Chisora of 2015 is not a tough test.

David Haye knocked him out badly years ago and he has been clearly faded since...not good considering he wasn't very good to begin with.

A small, slow Chisora with limited power and a highly diminished chin will get beat up.

[KO'er]

Josh should really be fighting more often dec to April for a prospect is a lot of time!!! He should fight in feb, then April!!

I agree. A fair amount of world champions fight 3/4 times a year, the likes of GGG, Kovalev and Donaire. (though Donaire has gotten off track since the Rigondeaux loss) It's only really the "PPV stars" of boxing who only fight twice a year. Unacceptale for AJ to fight possibly only 3 times in 2016.

Point is prospects should definitely be fighting minimum 4 times a year. That's the minimum, normally it'd be 5/6 times a year against some good but limited opposition.

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

not bad but considering it gonna be ppv its meh

[nacho daddy]

Chisora of 2015 is not a tough test.

David Haye knocked him out badly years ago and he has been clearly faded since...not good considering he wasn't very good to begin with.

A small, slow Chisora with limited power and a highly diminished chin will get beat up.

that is the whole purpose of the fight and the result joshuas people want

[coghaugen]

That's six months away! Tyson fought every two weeks when he was coming up.

[Enzo Mc is SHIT]

Hard to know how to match him now. Johnson was supposed to give him rounds and didn't, Whyte was supposed to be a quick KO and wasn't, Fury is clearly a lot better then most of us thought he was, nobody knows how Haye's going to look now. It's a very uncertain scene.

[lefthooklead]

Unfortunately he's now Eddie Hearn's pay per view man and I've heard every fight of his will be PPV now which is ridiculous. He needs to learn how to use his footwork better, how to move his and head and he seriously needs to learn how to feint. I didn't see a single feint or any head movement in his fight against Dillian. He also needs to fight more regularly against different styles in order to practice implementing all of that before he's stepping up and becoming a PPV star. He's still not fought anyone who can box on the back foot since Felix Savon in the Olympics, and most thought he was lucky to win that fight. At this stage of his career Fury would box his head off pretty easily.