Coach Joe Gallagher believes Daniel Dubois can be former two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua’s first large win of his 11-year skilled profession if he’s victorious on Saturday night time.
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Gallagher factors out the plain, with Joshua’s resume suffering from beatable fighters, which leaves a query mark about whether or not he’s what some imagine him to be.
Up till now, the fighters that Joshua (28-3, 25 KOs) have overwhelmed have been a flawed bunch of lesser guys, who had been both by no means that nice to start win or within the case of Wladimir Klitschko, had been previous their prime at 41-years-old, coming off a loss and retirement.
It’s been smoke and mirrors with Joshua’s profession, with him being made to look higher than he truly is because of matchmaking. There’s an Edgar Berlanga-esque manner about Joshua and the way he’s been maneuvered throughout his skilled profession. You have to surprise if he’s a phony, manufactured fighter like Berlanga.
If the 34-year-old Joshua is victorious in opposition to IBF heavyweight champion Dubois (21-2, 20 KOs) on Saturday of their combat at Wembley Stadium in London, it would give AJ his first true win over a top quality fighter.
“Ben is a extremely good coach. It’s too early to say. I feel Anthony Joshua has run-of-the-mill opponents up till now. No matter which coach he had, it might have been comparable outcomes,” mentioned Joe Gallagher to the talkSport Boxing channel about whether or not Anthony Joshua has improved since hiring Ben Davison as his coach in 2023.
Joshua has solely been with coach Ben Davison for 2 fights in opposition to Francis Ngannou and Otto Wallin. These are fighters that AJ might have overwhelmed even with simply somebody off the road in his nook to present him water and cheerleading. Any senseless particular person might inform Joshua, ‘The throw the appropriate.’ To know whether or not Davison has improved Joshua, he should defeat Dubois on Saturday night time and look good. I’ve my doubts.
“So that is the place we’ll know extra about Anthony Joshua and Ben Davison’s relationship on this combat on Saturday night time,” mentioned Gallagher. “I really feel this would be the first dwell opponent that Anthony Joshua would have overwhelmed in his profession in Daniel Dubois, a younger, thrilling, large puncher.”
Clearly, Dubois is Joshua’s first dwell opponent since his combat in opposition to Oleksandr Usyk. If Joshua wins, it’s simply the most effective victory of his profession.
Klitschko was 42. He’d been retired eight months and had [already lost] to Tyson Fury. He misplaced to Usyk and Andy Ruiz. This [Dubois] may very well be Joshua’s first dwell opponent and first large win,” mentioned Gallagher.
AJ’s win over Wladimir in 2017 was tainted as a result of superior age, inactivity, earlier loss, and the Ukrainian being with out his coach Emanuel Steward. Though folks made a giant manufacturing was made about Joshua’s victory over Klitschko, folks failed to have a look at the place he was at in his profession. Folks had been do determined to create a faux hero.
Joshua’s greatest wins:
– Wladimir Klitschko: *41-years-old
– Alexander Povetkin
– Andy Ruiz Jr: *Out of practice 283-lbs
– Dillian Whyte: *Injured
– Joseph Parker: *Referee controversy
– Carlos Takam
– Kubrat Pulev
– Charles Martin
