From discuss of going into a direct return combat with Daniel Dubois, to returning to motion subsequent summer time. That is the place we’re with former two-time heavyweight champ Anthony Joshua. AJ, as all followers know, was fairly brutally KO’d by Dubois in September, and the phrase was Joshua was “determined for revenge.” And we listened as Eddie Hearn advised us Joshua might go straight again in with Dubois, the IBF heavyweight champ, in a February rematch.
However after deciding towards this attributable to a niggling harm or two that Joshua picked up within the Wembley defeat, Joshua will now sit it out and see what occurs within the Oleksandr Usyk-Tyson Fury rematch. Hearn argues how so many individuals nonetheless need to see Joshua and Fury combat, this no matter whether or not or not Fury will get his personal revenge when he fights Usyk once more in December. Possibly. However who will Joshua combat subsequent if it’s not Fury? If it’s not Dubois?
Hearn, talking on DAZN, stated Joshua’s subsequent combat might certainly be the Dubois rematch, however in a while in 2025.
“It may very well be the Dubois rematch nevertheless it received’t be on February twenty second,” Hearn stated of Joshua’s subsequent transfer. “I feel we’ve to see how December twenty first unfolds (the Usyk-Fury rematch) after which decide after that. Count on to see AJ in a hoop subsequent Might or June.”
If it’s June when Joshua returns, he can have been out for 9 months, and the clock is ticking on Joshua’s profession at age 35. The Fury combat should be a giant one, however what if Joshua will get it and loses, by knockout? How would one other loss, a fifth loss, have an effect on Joshua’s legacy? Additionally, if Joshua doesn’t avenge his loss to Dubois, or if he doesn’t even strive to take action, how would that have an effect on his profession credentials?
Joshua might not have too many fights left, in any respect, and a few individuals do really feel he’s already completed. June is a very long time for us to attend till we discover out what, if something, Joshua nonetheless has to supply. Hearn has stated greater than as soon as that Joshua will combat both Fury or Dubois subsequent, no one else. However can Joshua defeat both man? Once more, we must wait a great few months to search out out. That’s if both combat truly occurs…….
