Comments Thread For: Anthony Joshua Wants To Keep Building For 12-18 Months

[Clegg]

Wilder fans not long ago: "Wilder is just as legit a champ as Wlad, Wlad has to come US to fight him"
Wilder fans this week: "Wilder young doe, should be held to same standards as guy with 15 fights"
Wilder fans in the future when Joshua wants to fight him and Wilder wants to fight a journeyman instead: "Wilder so much more experienced and proven than Joshua, so many levels above, no way Joshua deserves a fight with him or stands a chance"

[LacedUp]

Ustinov isn't great but he took 11 rounds of power shots before that happened. He's a big lump but he's not going to go down without taking some punishment and trying to give some back. More of a challenge than Leapai or especially Hamer, who would quit on his stool as Joshua was making his ring walk. Plus you have Molina and Scott on your list who went down in 1 round without showing any resilience whatsoever so not sure why you single Ustinov out.

Because he sucks.

Malik Scott might have gone down to Wilder in 1 round. But he at least beat Leapai, should have beaten Glazkov and took Chisora 6 rounds. Plus you know, he actually got skills.

Molina just took Wilder 9 rounds, so no shame in fighting him.

Ustinov is utter garbage and would not provide anything but a punching bag for Joshua. The guy moves like his feet are planted in cement.

[ironmike2012]

The difference between Wilder and Joshua, Wilder is champ and fought no one.
Joshua is a prospect, who is being brought up slowly, to learn the tools necessary to be a real champ, not a paper champ.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Joshua needs to say busy in 2016 and not wait for the big fights.. Needs to be like golovkin in 2014.. Fight five or 6 times

Joshua vs sexton, price, Molina, helinuis and then chisora

[Redd Foxx]

Why? He had something like 25 amateur fights and Joshua had 35 or something. Wilder was national champ and golden gloves champ and was in the olympics.

Pretty much exactly the same as Joshua who was also double national champ, although he also competed in the worlds and Europeans, but the amateur system in the US is far far better than the UK.

Yeah and who says he isn't? still doesn't take away from the fact that Wilder had 30+ fights against nobodies. Hell, as I said, Dillian Whyte is just about the second best fighter this "world champion" would have fought.

Lol yeah I'm biased. You're saying Joshua should get the same treatment as Wilder, the title holder, who's 30 years old with 35 fights. You immediately go to girl mode. Now that's just embarrassing.

And what is my double standard exactly? I'd like to know that, because what you said simply doesn't make any sense. And plenty of people have criticized the guys Joshua had been fighting until the Whyte fight.

The jealousy is real with this one .

So, you've illustrated that they have similar experience (one having a little more pro and other other having a little more amateur) against, as you said, similar competition. Neither guy has faced wildly different competition thus far.
GTFO w/ your childish attempt at shaming. I am not a fan of either guy. I just feel that someone need to shine a spotlight on the fools that carry predictable biases and are too closed-minded to admit it.

Why are you talking about Wilder like he's some green contender? He's a 35 fight world champion who's been fighting professionally for seven years and will notch up his third title defence in a little under a month. Joshua has just had his fifteenth professional fight and hasn't progressed out of the domestic circuit yet.

The 'inconsistencies' here come from the very simple fact that both fighters aren't remotely at the same stages in their careers.

See above.