Comments Thread For: Joshua: Losing Scares Me, Stays on Your Record For Eternity

[sportbuddha]

Totally right. Joshua agrees too considering he says this:

"[Roger] Federer is still known as a great, but we don't know the 10 people who have beat him before. For boxing, that loss stays on your record for eternity. Losing doesn't define you though; it's how you move forward that defines you. You have to know where you are going.

When I look at heavyweight boxing, you look at [Wladimir] Klitschko, and he wanted to be a three-time heavyweight champion of the world, he lost and came back - If I lost, I'd dust myself off and go again. It would show people's mindset if they discredited everything I had done up until that point because of one defeat."

The headline of this article is sensationalist nonsense, probably designed to appease the masses. Joshua doesn't even use the word scared once and he immediately follows the eternity line with the fact a loss wouldn't define him. Doesn't sound like someone that is unwilling to take challenges...

I agree and read it the same way, after all the interviewers question was probably something along the lines of ‘how would you feel about losing?’ Or something similar, so his response was balanced. You’re wasting your time trying to educate the Wilder obsessives, they are a bit brain fogged and tend to just twist every word to ‘ducking’, which is ironic coming from the keyboard courageous that have mostly never been in a gym let alone a competitive fight, but give em a platform and you get dumb ass comments I spose.

[MisanthropicNY]

Windmill only talks tough when Joshua has a fight signed. After Joshua KOs Parker, Windmill will be back to 50/50, I have to earn my fair share...

[AdonisCreed]

Asked, 'Is [losing] what scares you?' the 28-year-old heavyweight champion from Watford answered: "Yeah because it is the sport we are in."

It says clearly when asked is losing what scares you he replied Yeah lol

[Squ□redCircle34]

The truth is there AJ fan girls!

The proof couldn't be more in the pudding than it is tonite!

Anthony "Anyone But Wilder" Joshua ain't fighting Bronze Bomber till 2020

[Illmatic94]

BRUH!

this the type of sht you only say to your trainer and relatives. not the world man... not the world.

[lion33lit]

Asked, 'Is [losing] what scares you?' the 28-year-old heavyweight champion from Watford answered: "Yeah because it is the sport we are in."

It says clearly when asked is losing what scares you he replied Yeah lol

CLEARLY admissible in the court of "What are Joshuas CLEAR WORDS & concise THOUGHTS regarding LOSING!" He could have JUST AS EASILY answered "NO!" in regard to ".....what SCARES you?".....Would the "other" champ Wilder have those SAME "champion" like thoughts on that SAME topic?

There are past greats like Ali who DON'T EVEN CONSIDER losing.....don't even LET THEIR MINDS GO THERE! DON'T ENVISION IT! So? Theyre not SCARED of it happening! So if LOSING happens? thoughts regarding "ETERNITY" & PUBLIC OPINION don't PUNISH & PLAGUE their conscience!

"In boxing, losing is the one thing you are NERVOUS about." Says who!? Says Anthony Joshua! NOT Wilder, Holyfield, Lennox, Tyson etc,. "If I LOST......it would show peoples mindset if they discredited everything I had done....." People are gonna be people, they'll discredit ANYTHING at the drop of a dime! Why would he care what fickle discrediting fangirls think anyway!?

All that "dust yourself off" BULL is what he's SUPPOSED to say.....he can't stay on the "nervous" line of reasoning and thought, it GIVES too much away to his fans & detractors. All the INTELLECTUALS who read AJ's interview see a BRAVE young man ready for Wilder RIGHT NOW! I DON'T. I see & hear an INEXPERIENCED young lad that needs his "promoter" to come "clear up" what his fighter "really" means in this interview....

[lion33lit]

"In every other sport you can lose and bounce back"....true, but he can also bounce back in this sport as well. Would his dear fangirls make him believe theres no bouncing back if he loses "because it is (like that) in the sport we are in"(?)....It would seem that he needs to call Roger Federer & Wladimir Klitschko for assurance & to "really" know "HOW you move forward" .....Boxing fans can be a cruel bunch, but it seems he's too preoccupied with what they think & feel, hence his nervousness & scared feelings bubble to the surface over KING WILDERS APPEARANCES and call outs!!!! "Oh dear, where is Daddy Hearn when you need him to save me....I'm cold now...."

[McNulty]

The chump finally admitted what we all knew.

lol @ TC.

[Elroy The Great]

could this be why an 80/20 split might still be too high for wilder

''91.5/8.5 seems fair.''
~aj

[iamboxing]

The fear of losing explains his ducking of Wilder.