Why does Joshua need six months off?

[Motorcity Cobra]

He's waiting on Canelo

[Boxing Goat]

He probably received a concussion from that right hand in the 6th round.

[SplitSecond]

Wilder josh end of the year seems good. He should take the rest.

[Beercules]

Got to cycle properly bruh

[SUBZER0ED]

Well, he did take some beating in the fight. Nothing wrong with the 6 months off. Actually, he looked worse than Wlad after the fight.

Furthermore, they will wait for the Wlad's final decision about the rematch.

Joshua's left eye was reportedly swollen from a head butt. That 2 inch gash over Wladimir's left eye came from a punch.

[KillaCamNZ]

my guess is they already have joshua at the level they want him at now it just mega fights for him

This thought scares me. There are so few mega fights to be made at HW - they are the exception rather than the rule.

To have a guy with only 19 pro fights going into mega fight mode...man...that's premature and a waste of his prime. I hope Hearn & Co know better (not confident they do).

[SUBZER0ED]

There's actually only 5 months between now and October. Joshua needs time to heal. He also needs to study what he did wrong in that fight & get back into the gym to learn new techniques of defense. Although he got his second wind in the fight, he could also stand to work on his stamina. Taking 5 months to do these things isn't unreasonable at all.

[gmc_rfc_06]

Well, its not 6 months 'off'.

He's just had a long training camp and a very demanding fight.

He will enter training camp again in mid-to-late July, so he's really having 8-10 weeks off.

[Simurgh]

Joshua's left eye was reportedly swollen from a head butt. That 2 inch gash over Wladimir's left eye came from a punch.

Regardless how he got it, it's there and it will take time to heal. It's not exactly like he had an easy fight - he pretty much went death and life in there.

[The plunger man]

The days of Mike Tyson fighting every month will never return. Depressing to think that.

Well he never fought every month when he became champion lol....no fighter has and they fight 3 times a year maximum.....its not actually six months because they go nto training 11 weeks before fight night so its only ever 3 0r 4 month rest.