From speak of going into an instantaneous return struggle with Daniel Dubois, to returning to motion subsequent summer season. 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 informed us Joshua could go straight again in with Dubois, the IBF heavyweight champ, in a February rematch.
However after deciding towards this resulting from a niggling damage 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 wish to see Joshua and Fury struggle, 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 struggle subsequent if it’s not Fury? If it’s not Dubois?
Hearn, talking on DAZN, mentioned Joshua’s subsequent struggle may certainly be the Dubois rematch, however afterward in 2025.
“It might be the Dubois rematch but it surely gained’t be on February twenty second,” Hearn mentioned 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. Anticipate 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 struggle should still be an enormous 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 attempt to take action, how would that have an effect on his profession credentials?
Joshua could not have too many fights left, in any respect, and a few folks 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 mentioned greater than as soon as that Joshua will struggle both Fury or Dubois subsequent, no person else. However can Joshua defeat both man? Once more, we should wait a superb few months to search out out. That’s if both struggle truly occurs…….
