Journalist Gareth A. Davies doesn’t consider a rematch will occur between Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois in gentle of the end result of their conflict final month. He feels that there’s an excessive amount of threat for Joshua being “mained and mauled” by IBF heavyweight champion Dubois (22-2, 21 KOs) to face him a second time.
Gareth thinks that Joshua (28-4, 25 KOs) will as a substitute sit and wait on the end result of the Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk rematch on December twenty first. If Fury loses, as most consider he’ll, Joshua will struggle him subsequent. There’s an excessive amount of cash accessible for AJ and Fury to seize for them to not struggle.
Joshua appeared out of his league final month, getting dropped 4 instances in his fifth-round knockout loss to Dubois at Wembley Stadium in London. If that struggle had been aggressive, a rematch would doubtlessly make sense. It wasn’t aggressive, and a rematch would doubtless be an identical bloodbath.
“My intestine feeling is it gained’t,” stated Gareth A. Davies to Professional Boxing Followers about whether or not the Anthony Joshua vs. Daniel Dubois rematch will occur. “Ultimately, my feeling is that they’ll say, ‘Let’s simply wait and see what occurs with Fury and Usyk.’ If Fury loses Usyk the second time, possibly we put Joshua in with Fury now.
“If Fury wins, I believe Fury and Usyk will in all probability have a trilogy. That’s the sense that I’m getting from folks. My intuition is he [Joshua] gained’t find yourself instantly rematching Daniel Dubois, but when he does, it’ll in all probability be in February.
“Punch resistance is gone? I don’t find out about that. I believe Daniel Dubois punches actually laborious,” stated Gareth, reacting to being advised that Carl Froch had commented about his perception that Joshua’s punch resistance is gone after watching him get obliterated by Dubois.
“He was caught flush early, and he spent 9 minutes making an attempt to get better and hold a foothold within the struggle, which he did brilliantly to do. Then he threw his entire lot within the first minute of the fifth spherical, after which he received caught. Within the meantime, he nonetheless did catch Daniel and induced some tremors,” stated Gareth.
It’s not a lot that Joshua’s punch resistance is gone, however quite, he by no means had any to start with. The pictures that Dubois repeatedly damage Joshua with on September twenty first would have executed the identical factor to him if he’d fought him earlier in his profession in 2013 via 2017.
Joshua by no means had an excellent beard, however that weak spot has been hidden as a result of his promoter, Eddie Hearn, matching him selectively in opposition to lesser fighters. For those who have a look at Joshua’s profession resume, it’s full of beatable guys, lots of them outdated.
Joshua’s finest profession opponents
– Wladimir Klitsschko: 41-years-old
– Andy Ruiz Jr.
– Kubrat Pulev: 39
– Oleksandr Usyk
– Francis Ngannou: 37
– Robert Helenius: 41
– Alexander Povetkin: 39
– Carlos Takam: 36
– Joseph Parker
– Dillian Whyte
– Otto Wallin
“Didn’t you all stand up out of your seats at that second within the fifth spherical and assume, ‘He’s going to show this round. It’s unbelievable, and he’s going to be this concussed man speaking afterward when he’s gained the struggle.’” stated Davies, speaking concerning the temporary second of success AJ had within the fifth spherical earlier than getting his lights turned out.
Gareth goes a bit of overboard, speaking about Joshua backing Dubois up within the fifth spherical after catching him with a clear proper hand. Dubois wasn’t damage, and it was apparent that he was taking part in possum, trying to lure Joshua right into a lure.
We noticed Dubois do the identical factor in opposition to Filip Hrgovic final June in Riyadh, and he destroyed him in eight rounds. Dubois took much more laborious proper arms from Hrgovic than he did in opposition to Joshua, and he held up simply positive. The punches that Hrgovic hit Dubois with had been virtually as highly effective because the one AJ tagged him with within the fifth.
“My private view is Joshua ought to sit it out till Fury and Usyk have fought. That’s my view quite than taking the rapid rematch in opposition to Daniel Dubois. Is it a sensible transfer if he will get sort of maimed and mauled one other time in a second struggle in opposition to Dubois,” stated Gareth.
Joshua would absolutely be mauled in a second struggle by Dubois, and it wouldn’t matter one bit if the rematch had been delayed till February or March subsequent yr. Dubois is just too highly effective, younger, and durable within the chin division for Joshua, who’s getting old, to defeat him.
