Promoter Eddie Hearn predicts an early exit for IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois if he comes out firing with each barrels towards Anthony Joshua on September twenty first of their headliner at what is anticipated to be a jam-packed Wembley Stadium in London.
Hearn is satisfied that Joshua, 34, will blast out Dubois if he fights like he did in his current conflict towards Matchroom fighter Filip Hrgovic on June 1st in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Dubois decimated Hearn’s fighter Hrgovic, knocking him out within the eighth spherical and spoiling his plans to match him towards AJ for the IBF title.
It’s clearly a bitter tablet for Hearn to swallow watching Dubois wreck Hrgovic, and you need to surprise if there are nonetheless some exhausting emotions over what Daniel did to his fighter. All that cash and planning went down the drain with nothing to point out for it.
Now, Dubois is poised to do the identical factor to Joshua (28-3, 25 KOs) on September twenty first, which might be a more durable factor to take care of for Hearn watching AJ’s ship sinking into the abyss.
In fact, with His Excellency Turki Alalshikh letting Joshua know that he can nonetheless get the Tyson Fury struggle in early 2025, even when he will get beat, it received’t be the tip of the world if Dubois sinks him to the underside of the ocean.
Nonetheless, the money that the Joshua-Fury struggle pulls in received’t be almost as a lot if Dubois knocks out Joshua as a result of followers aren’t going to be desirous to pour their hard-earned cash into watching a pampered, spoiled-rotten AJ again his means into the match below these circumstances. In the true world, winners get the spoils, not the losers.
“If [Daniel] Dubois comes out like he did within the [Filip] Hrgovic struggle, Dubois might get flattened early. I feel he’ll get flattened, however Dubois is harmful,” stated promoter Eddie Hearn to DAZN on his prediction that Anthony Joshua will knockout IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois on September twenty first if he comes out of the gates aggressively.
I hate to interrupt this to Hearn however he’s bought it useless unsuitable about Dubois. If he comes into the struggle with Joshua preventing like a locomotive at full steam, he’s going to put on him down shortly and rating a quick knockout. Joshua can’t take the type of photographs that Hrgovic did, and he’s incapable of dealing with the fast-paced struggle that Dubois routinely places on.
“You don’t need to be buying and selling with Daniel Dubois, [instead] you need accuracy, you need energy, you need explosiveness, and also you need to time him onto photographs,” stated Hearn.
Joshua isn’t going to have the ability to potshot towards Dubois like he did towards the novice Francis Ngannous final March as a result of he’s not going to hold again or struggle stupidly the best way that man, altering stances like he has no sense.
Dubois will bounce on Joshua from the get-go, blasting him with energy photographs and making him really feel his age. It might finish badly for Joshua, with him getting knocked out and his profession in a nasty spot afterward.
