Joe Joyce is again within the win column following two back-to-back stoppage losses by the hands of Zhilei Zhang, and as he will get set to tackle Derek Chisora this weekend on the O2 Area, Joyce tells Sky Sports activities that believes he’s scorching on the comeback path with larger fights to return.
“I’m nonetheless prime 10,” the 38-year-old Joyce advised Sky Sports activities. “The choices are superb. There are many fights on the market for me. There are opponents that I can rematch.
“There’s nonetheless a great deal of opponents for me and I’m nonetheless but to get a full world title, be a heavyweight world champ. I must tick that off the bucket record.”
Joyce, who was as soon as an interim titleholder, believes that maybe with a bit extra luck up to now he would possibly’ve been elevated to a full champion like Daniel Dubois was, however that everybody simply isn’t afforded the identical alternatives.
In that sense Joyce says he’s taking a tougher highway than some, however that mixed with the strain will solely make the top consequence that rather more fruitful for him. Ought to Joyce beat Chisora this weekend, Joseph Parker presents rematch possibility so he says, however that he’d even be keen to step in towards the likes of Anthony Joshua, Daniel Dubois, Tyson Fury and even Oleksandr Usyk.
As Joyce tells it, he’s solely nonetheless within the sport of boxing to seize that elusive world champion distinction, and he firmly believes he’s nonetheless a dwell canine to get there in the long run.
