By William Lloyd: Daniel ‘Dynamite’ Dubois isn’t certain whether or not former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua will come out victorious subsequent March in his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk. Like many individuals, Dubois is not sure whether or not Joshua (24-2, 22 KOs) can avenge his loss to Usyk (19-0, 13 KOs) final September.
Joshua, 31, appeared so confused, drained, and frightened at instances that it made it tough to foretell a constructive final result for him within the rematch with Usyk.
What you may say is that Joshua and his promoter Eddie Hearn are exhibiting loads of braveness in pushing for the speedy rematch. Whereas some boxing followers applaud Joshua for this transfer, many others really feel that is unwise.
AJ GAMBLING
Joshua is playing for all intents and functions, and it’s a poor gamble given what occurred to him final time. A second loss for Joshua will influence not solely his personal life however the lives of his promoters at Matchroom Boxing and presumably members of his coaching crew.
It is a self-serving transfer on his half, which may be construed as egocentric as a result of he’s pondering of himself with out weighing the way it might influence his crew if he loses once more.
“He outboxed Joshua and got here away with the titles,” stated Daniel Dubois to iFL TV about Oleksandr Usyk defeating Anthony Joshua final September.
“That’s large for him to return up from cruiserweight to heavyweight, and now he’s up there with the large boys.
“I don’t know if Joshua can flip it round within the rematch or no matter, but it surely’s going to be fascinating,” Dubois stated.
It’s lots for Joshua to do in a brief interval to repair all of the errors he made within the first struggle with Usyk to return out victorious within the rematch.
You’ll be able to perceive why Hearn isn’t chomping on the bit to promote the Joshua-Usyk 2 rematch to the very best bidder by taking it abroad to Saudi Arabia.
Hearn is aware of that Joshua will need to have homecourt benefit for the rematch with Oleksandr, even when it means he and Usyk make numerous hundreds of thousands much less.
With Joshua’s shaky self-confidence, he wants the help of his followers to assist him pull out the victory. If the followers might help Joshua win, it’ll be price it that he’s dropping hundreds of thousands by selecting to not take the struggle to the very best bidder for an enormous offsite deal.
DUBOIS REACTS TO FURY VS. WILDER 3
“I used to be at residence pondering, ‘That is correct boxing,’” stated Dubois in reacting to the ‘Rock ’em sock ’em robots’ battle between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder on October ninth. In comparison with Joshua vs. Uysk, this was fully totally different.
“I believe everyone bought their cash’s price with that struggle [Fury vs. Wilder 3], the followers and everybody. It was an important night time of boxing, and all all over the world that seen that was like, ‘Wow, that is correct,” stated Dubois.
