Teddy Atlas says Anthony Joshua ought to retire if he’s solely centered on persevering with his profession simply to get one other “150 million” following his loss to Daniel Dubois final Saturday evening.
Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, desires him to struggle Tyson Fury twice in 2025 and presumably rematch Dubois. These three fights would earn AJ a gazillion {dollars}, including to his large fortune. If Joshua loses all three of these fights, he’ll nonetheless make large cash.
Atlas believes that Joshua (28-4, 25 KOs) bought “uncovered” in his fifth-round KO defeat towards IBF heavyweight champion Dubois (22-2, 21 KOs). He says the errors Joshua had made in previous fights and gotten away with didn’t work towards Dubois, and he took benefit of these flaws.
It goes again to Joshua’s trainers. AJ’s ways through the Dubois struggle have been ones he’d been working towards on sparring companions throughout coaching camp. Joshua’s coach, Ben Davison, ought to have identified that he wouldn’t beat a wrecking machine like Dubois combating passively or by throwing uppercuts.
“He’s bought to determine, ‘Do I retire?’ He doesn’t need to struggle once more. Ricky Hatton stated he ought to retire. I agree with Ricky if it’s nearly getting one other 150 million kilos,” stated Teddy Atlas on his YouTube channel about Anthony Joshua needing to retire if he’s solely combating for cash.
Joshua’s followers imagine he shouldn’t retire as a result of they really feel that his defeat wasn’t a giant deal and that he can proceed to get pleasure from success if he will get his ways proper. They could possibly be proper.
If Joshua fights on the entrance foot, attacking his opponents with a barrage of punches like he’d completed earlier in his profession, there aren’t too many heavyweights that might stand as much as that sort of firepower. Nevertheless, Joshua hasn’t fought like that in a few years, making him susceptible.
“If it’s that, you’ve bought sufficient. Go off into the sundown,” stated Atlas about Joshua.” Folks love you. But when there’s one thing that retains you up at evening, you then’ve bought to struggle once more for you. In any other case, no.”
There’s an excessive amount of fan curiosity in a conflict between Joshua and Fury for AJ to retire now. It’s greater than cash with Joshua; he desires to compete to point out that he can nonetheless win on the highest ranges. Joshua will want a greater coach, although, and it doesn’t seem that he’s taken with making adjustments to his group after his loss to Dubois.
“Joshua bought uncovered. For those who do come again, it’s a must to see what you probably did mistaken and what you’ve completed mistaken up to now. Even in the event you’ve gotten away with it, it’s nonetheless mistaken. It must be corrected. For those who appropriate it, perhaps you may come again and do one thing enormous once more,” stated Atlas.
