Joshua Knocked out in sparring by Joey Dawejko

[_Rexy_]

Anthony Joshua sure has a lot of wins compared to the amount of times he’s been knocked out!

According to sparring stories he’s 0-20 as a sparrer and ranks somewhere in the bottom top 100 in sparring.

When I first read this story I pictured Ivan Dychko in my head and just thought “no shame in that, but odd sparring partner to prepare for Andy”

[alexguiness]

Joey is basically a white version of Ruiz lol.

[alexguiness]

Josh never got koed in sparring..only reason he lost because ruiz is well schooled Mexican trained by roach. Josh should have trained with mayweathers

Joshua would not fit in with the Mayweather coaching set up.

He is the type of guy that needs his own people around him like McCraken etc - his style is a basic European type as coached to many of the GB squad - you can't train that out of a boxer and re-invent them with the Mayweather style after the indoctrination he received as an Olympic boxer.

I also don't think he would handle being away from London, he comes across as a mommy's boy and you need a bit of dog in your to survive and thrive at Floyd's gyms.

[bigdunny1]

Lmfao Joey F’n Dawejko!!! Man if that’s true he should have just said it was Dubois instead lmfao

Lmao!!!!!!!

[thecomedian2]

Rough f#cking week for Joshua. He got KO'd by Joey Dawejko. Got KO'd by Agit Kabayel . F#cked too many Miami hoes. Had a panic attack before the fight. Then got merked by a fat guy.

Worst vacation ever.

Yes...

[thecomedian2]

they need to have Joshua's sparring partners literally wear pillows, he seems to get sparked out during sparring on a regular! lol

They wear training sparring "Pillows" gloves, and still he gets k.o by sparring partners.

[NEETzsche]

Dawejko is a skilled fighter, I can imagine him being one of those guys who looks great in sparring

[elfag]

If AJ got a documented and diagnosed concussion in the weeks leading up to the fight, he HAD to lie on the pre fight paperwork to get cleared by the NY State Athletic Commission.


NY Commission has to go by his word on the paperwork. They cant even access medical records in state on their own much less whatever was happening in another country.

[elfag]

Joshua would not fit in with the Mayweather coaching set up.

He is the type of guy that needs his own people around him like McCraken etc - his style is a basic European type as coached to many of the GB squad - you can't train that out of a boxer and re-invent them with the Mayweather style after the indoctrination he received as an Olympic boxer.

I also don't think he would handle being away from London, he comes across as a mommy's boy and you need a bit of dog in your to survive and thrive at Floyd's gyms.

Steward would have been the guy for him if he was still around. Improving defense of big guys was his specialty. IDK if we would like the results, he would teach him to fight tall and use his range but also hold significantly more.

[HeadBodyBodyBody]

Rarely does any fighter have an 100% great training camp. Many fighters in history have had terrible training camps and other personal issues in their careers.

WTF are all of these weak excuses i’m reading?

Buster Douglas mother died on January 1990, while training for a fight with an undefeated, 24 year old Mike Tyson for a fight on February 1990, where he was already a 42-1 underdog.

While training for a fight with Antonio Margarito, Shane Mosley, who was a heavy underdog, was also going through a divorce. Never been through one of those but i’m sure they f/cking drain the life out of you worse than breaking up with a gf.

Mayweather had looming jail time to serve while after the Cotto fight. He trained through camp with the thought of him going to jail.

Robert Guerrero’s wife was battling cancer while Guerrero was training for the Berto fight.

The list goes on and on, those are just newish examples. I’m sure fighters of back in the day went through their fair share of crap while in training. Ali facing racism, prison time, religion bashing, etc.

What Joshua went through is normal sh/t and it’s weak to try to give him a pass.

With that said, I think AJ wins the rematch and I give him the benefit of the doubt in the ring. He got caught fighting ****** and never recovered. I think he comes back and gives a better account of himself. Not because he will have a better training camp (lol), but because he will try to be more intelligent when going after Ruiz.

Good post, no such thing as a perfect camp.