Journalist Thomas Hauser is anxious about Anthony Joshua’s mind well being after watching him get destroyed by IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois by a fifth spherical knockout final Saturday evening in London.
Thomas notes that Joshua can not “stroll via fireplace” at this level in his profession, and he feels that persevering with to battle is placing his well being in danger. Joshua, 34, has already created generational wealth for his household.
Hauser feels the previous two-time heavyweight champion Joshua not has the identical equipment that he possessed within the zenith of his profession when he rose off the canvas to defeat Wladimir Klitschko. He says he’d wish to see Joshua obtain a whole neurological examination by Dr. Margaret Goodman to look at his mind well being.
Joshua probably wouldn’t retire even when his mind wasn’t given a superb invoice of well being from an MRI examination as a result of he thinks he nonetheless can compete with the perfect, which clearly he can’t. He’s beginning to suspect, although.
If Joshua is crushed within the rematch with Dubois, he’ll probably retire after that defeat until His Excellency Turki Alalshikh provides him an incredible amount of cash to battle Tyson Fury. Joshua gained’t say no to a payday of $100 million+ to battle what’s left of Fury after he’s overwhelmed a second time by Oleksandr Usyk on December twenty first.
Did the Referee Assist Joshua?
“I felt that the referee, Marcus McDonnell, didn’t do a superb job of refereeing that battle. Deliberately or not, I felt he shaded his decision-making in favor of [Joshua],” stated Thomas Houser to Secondsout, speaking in regards to the referee who labored the Anthony Joshua vs. Daniel Dubois battle final Saturday.
Hauser isn’t the one one who felt that the referee helped Joshua to outlive towards Dubois. Some followers on social media felt that very same approach and believed that Joshua would have been knocked out a lot sooner with out the referee.
“He by no means as soon as warned him for holding, which AJ was doing all through the battle as soon as he obtained hit within the first spherical. He was grappling and holding on,” stated Hauser in regards to the referee.
“You’ll be able to say he needed to maintain on to outlive, which I perceive, however it’s nonetheless towards the principles. However the referee by no means even warned him for that, after which with out even any earlier warning in any respect, he took away a degree from Dubois for a low blow. Even with the referee shading issues in his favor, it was clearly not a superb evening for [Joshua].”
AJ probably would have been completed off by Dubois within the second spherical if the referee had addressed his clinching as a result of, with out that, he would have been bombarded out of existence. The tip would have come shortly for Joshua, which can have been good for him. He wouldn’t have needed to take all of the punishment he absorbed in rounds three, 4, and 5.
Joshua Not The Identical Fighter
“Joshua has reached a degree in his profession, and he’s been there for some time; he doesn’t have the power to stroll via fireplace and win,” stated Hauser.” He did that towards Wladimir Klitschko. He was damage, he got here again, and he gained, however he was a a lot youthful man bodily[2017] and youthful psychologically then.”
It’s apparent that Joshua can not deal with a battle through which he has to cope with adversity. AJ’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, had protected him with tender matchmaking since his second loss to Oleksandr Usyk, however he might not do this final evening when he was thrown in with the damaging predator Dubois, and we noticed the outcome.
Hearn created Joshua together with his skillful match-making, choosing many fighters like Wladimir Klitschko, Alexander Povetkin, and Kubrat Pulev after they had been previous. Joshua would have probably misplaced to all these fighters and extra if Hearn had matched him after they had been nonetheless able-bodied and totally functioning,
“I simply don’t like all of the instances AJ was hit within the head final evening. It was surprising. It jogged my memory of the primary Andy Ruiz battle,” stated Hauser.
Hauser: AJ Making Eddie Hearn “Large Cash”
“Each time AJ fights, Eddie Hearn makes an enormous amount of cash,” stated Hauser. “There are individuals on AJ’s crew that make quite a lot of cash each time he fights. I don’t know what his bodily situation is. I’ve by no means seen an MRI from AJ. I’m positive there will probably be individuals who will say he had a fantastic MRI. I might like it if he did a full neurological make-up with somebody like Margaret Goodman.
“I used to be troubled by seeing how he responded after getting hit onerous by Dubois for the primary time. I can simply look on and cringe each time I see Anthony Joshua get hit within the head. The Joshua that climbed off the canvas to beat Wladimir Klitschko doesn’t exist anymore. He doesn’t have the identical equipment anymore.
“I overestimated AJ, and I underestimated Dubois. I hope AJ retains his eye on the underside line, and I’m not speaking about funds as a result of I assume he has a lot cash now, generational wealth for him, his kids, and his grandchildren sometime. He has all that, and the underside line is his well being. Fighters don’t assume the worst might occur to them, however generally it does,” stated Hauser.
For anybody who assumed that Joshua would beat Dubois, they didn’t take a tough take a look at the opposition that he’d been preventing in his earlier 4 fights after his psychological implosion after his second defeat towards Usyk in 2022.
All you needed to do was take a look at who Hearn had matched Joshua towards within the final two years after which observe AJ’s efficiency towards Usyk to know what would occur when he obtained in there with Dubois.
It was all smoke and mirrors with Joshua and the naive public, who had been too lazy to look at who he’d been preventing carefully. Hearn pulled the wool over the eyes of the sheep-like by making a mirage, making them assume Joshua had been totally refurbished after beating 4 tomato cans. It was all trickery by the grasp.
