Eddie Hearn says Anthony Joshua won’t ever forgive himself if he doesn’t take the rematch with Daniel Dubois to try to avenge his defeat towards him. Hearn thinks Joshua (28-4, 25 KOs) will say subsequent week, ‘Let’s run it again,’ after they determine on taking the rematch with IBF heavyweight champion Dubois (22-2, 21 KOs) or not.
If Joshua doesn’t take the rematch, he’ll face Tyson Fury subsequent, and he may presumably be coming off one other loss to Oleksandr Usyk by then. That may arrange a worthless conflict between Joshua and Fury, each coming off consecutive defeats, and seen by the general public as hasbeens.
The UK followers will nonetheless be desperate to see AJ and Fury get it solely, however individuals elsewhere gained’t see any worth within the matchup aside from it being a gloried movie star match.
Apparently, Hearn is cool to the thought of Joshua taking a few gimme fights towards Deontay Wilder, Dillian Whyte, and Joe Joyce to get used to successful once more. He says Joshua has already had a rebuild job carried out, and he doesn’t want one other one.
He may not however the followers want to see Joshua get a knockout or two to allow them to consider in him once more. Proper now, a lot of them really feel he’s washed up and heading in the direction of one other defeat towards Dubois.
“What you’ve gotten is a straight shot on the heavyweight championship towards a man that we consider he ought to have crushed and all of us consider we will beat,” stated Eddie Hearn to BoxNation about Anthony Joshua wanting the rematch with Daniel Dubois.
“I don’t assume AJ will be capable of forgive himself if he doesn’t take the rematch. For me, he’ll say, ‘Let’s run it again.’ So, we’ll see this week.
“He doesn’t need knockout wins. He needs the world heavyweight championship,” stated Hearn, reacting to a suggestion that Joshua take a warmup combat to get a knockout. “We’re not going to at this stage beat Deontay Wilder, Joe Joyce or Dillian Whyte. It’s probably not going to present us any distinction from our combat with Dubois.
“I get it; possibly mentally, you go into with a bit of extra momentum. We ain’t received time for momentum. We’ve carried out the rebuild. The rebuild was carried out after Usyk. We had 4 fights, after which we went in with Dubois. If Ben Davison and AJ consider that’s the route, then possibly we’ll do this.
“AJ didn’t field nicely towards Dubois. We really feel as a staff, we will beat Dubois. If we will’t, we will’t, however think about if we win. Think about if AJ avenges his defeat towards Dubois and turns into a three-time heavyweight champion. It may well occur,” stated Hearn.
