Comments Thread For: Frank Warren: Joshua Needs To Beat Wilder or Fury To Be King

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

ANTHONY JOSHUA should win tonight but he can't be considered the heavyweight king until he beats Tyson Fury or Deontay Wilder. The London 2012 Olympic gold medallist is obviously a rising star but he has not fought anyone of note yet. The hype around him needs to be calmed until he starts beating live fighters.
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[fladz]

He'd beat either of them IMO, Fury may never be the same again and Wilder isn't very good to begin with.

[Realdeal3103]

Frank sometimes talks sense! But not on this occasion. So he's not the king until he beats wilder who has fought 38 bums and fury who has had 1 great performance out of 25 or so fights! I agree they all need to fight each other but from what I've seen AJ seems to be the only one willing to fight anyone.

[redmish]

Has Frank just called fury a live fighter? What a joke you are. Seeing a morbidly obese fury working the pads does not make him a live fighter.

[Eff Pandas]

Holy sh^t I agree with Warren. That's like agreeing with the UK Arum. You don't want to agree just on principle, but sometimes you gotta.

I still see Joshua as #1 (unless he catches a L today) with Fury out (he'd be my #1 otherwise) & Deontay's equal-ish resume, but awful style. I mean I consider Deontay's resume better just off of the Bermane W, but his style is so sh^tty I deduct enough points from him to give Joshua the #1 spot.

All that said the division is up for grabs & Joshua is only #1 to me cuz someone gots to be #1 & for this division to realllllly get decided Joshua vs Wilder vs a got his sh^t together Fury gotta fight & maybe even Parker puts himself more into the picture before all that goes down & he'll be in play too in the very near future..

[gingerbreadman]

Warren can't bear to think of Eddie Hearn having his heavyweight be THE guy. If Joshua knocks over Klitschko while winning rounds that's got to be considered better than Fury's win, as well as better than any of Wilder's victories. There's not a consensus #1 at HW yet, but Warren's motivated by jealousy here.

[techliam]

No one needs to beat Wilder to become 'King'

You'd beat Wilder to become the WBC titleholder, but that's all

Klitschko/Fury are the only fighters that matter in the division

[techliam]

Warren can't bear to think of Eddie Hearn having his heavyweight be THE guy. If Joshua knocks over Klitschko while winning rounds that's got to be considered better than Fury's win, as well as better than any of Wilder's victories. There's not a consensus #1 at HW yet, but Warren's motivated by jealousy here.

Really?

Klitschko was the reigning Champion, in his own backyard without any inactivity

Even if Joshua demolished him, there's no way it'd beat Fury's win.

[theface07]

Really?

Klitschko was the reigning Champion, in his own backyard without any inactivity

Even if Joshua demolished him, there's no way it'd beat Fury's win.

Klitschko and Fury are the only heavyweights who matter according to you but Joshua KO'ing Klitschko in the best heavyweight title fight in years doesn't beat Fury's snoozefest points victory. Good one man.

[SkillspayBills]

I personally would like a round robin, throw in Parker and Ortiz and let's have a grand ole time.