Dillian Whyte trashes Anthony Joshua

By Boxing News - 09/09/2015 - Comments

whyte5By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten heavyweight talent Dillian Whyte (15-0, 12 KOs) makes it very clear that he has no use for unbeaten #2 WBC Anthony Joshua (13-0, 13 KOs), who he will likely be facing later this year on December 12th in London, UK. Whyte, 27, sees Joshua as a fake type of a person, who he feels is pretentious.

Whyte just does not care for the 6’6” Joshua. None of this matters though because they don’t have to like each other. The two of them will be squaring off in three months from now, and then they can move on after that fight. Whyte already whipped Joshua six years ago in beating him in the amateur ranks.

Joshua has put on a lot of weight since then in terms of muscle, but that’s about the only difference I can see in him. Joshua doesn’t appear to have improved any, and you can make an argument that he was a better fighter in 2009 than he is now because he wasn’t carrying around an extra 30 pounds of muscle on his frame. The muscle hasn’t improved Joshua’s punching power, it’s just made him slower, more robotic and easier to hit in my opinion.

“I don’t like the guy because he’s fake and he puts on this demeanor that he’s this and he’s that,” Whyte said to skysports.com. “He’s a good guy, but he’s not really. He’s a bit of a scumbag, to be honest. There are personal reasons why I say that.”

The 6’6” Joshua will be fighting unbeaten Gary Cornish (21-0, 12 KOs) this Saturday night in a 12 round fight for the vacant Commonwealth heavyweight title at the O2 Arena in London, UK. For his part, Whyte, 6’4”, 250lbs, will be fighting on the undercard against the always capable 5’11”, 220lb, Brian Minto (41-9, 26 KOs) in a 12 round bout for the vacant WBC International Silver heavyweight title.

Whyte feels that Joshua will probably get Cornish out of there in the 1st round. As for his own bout, Whyte says he doesn’t care if he gets Minto out of there quickly or not. He’s got a durable guy and he likes the idea of getting rounds in rather than having an opponent that caves in immediately after getting hit for the first time with something big.

Above all, Whyte understands the importance of getting rounds in so that he can learn, improve and build up his endurance in the ring. In that belief, Whyte and Joshua don’t appear to see things in the same way. Joshua believes in getting his opponents out as fast as possible without getting hit, and he’s hoping he can KO the 6’7” Cornish in the first minute of the 1st round on Saturday night.

It’s unclear if Joshua has thought about the eventual ramifications of him having to go a full 10 to 12 round bout if he hasn’t built up his endurance to fight one of those type of fights. The first heavyweight that pushes the hulking Joshua at a fast pace for 10 or so rounds could wind up wearing him down to get a stoppage.

We saw Wladimir Klitschko pay the price of too many quick knockouts earlier in his career when he fought the durable Ross Puritty, who dragged an exhausted Wladimir to the 11th round to score a knockout over him. Like Joshua, Wladimir was heavily muscled, and those didn’t seem to help him once the fight got in the later rounds of the contest with the hard hitting Puritty.



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