Anthony Joshua boxing news
By Jeff Aranow: In an experiment to test how popular heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder is to the average American, Eddie Hearn, the promoter for IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, asked a couple of pedestrians on the street of New York if they’d ever heard of Wilder. Not surprisingly, the pedestrians said they don’t know who Wilder is.
By Juan Flores: Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller (19-0-1, 17 KOs) could put himself in position for a world title fight against IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua if he wins his co-feature bout against Marriusz Wach (33-2, 17 KOs) this Saturday night on HBO.
By Scott Gilfoid: WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker is hoping his management will be able to put together a deal for a unification fight with IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua in March of 2018.
By Juan Flores: IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn confirms that he’ll be meeting this week with WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber’ Wilder’s advisers Al Haymon and Shelly Finkel to plan a unification fight for 2018.
By Scott Gilfoid: Eddie Hearn says no one from heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder’s team approached him to start negotiations for a fight against his star fighter Anthony Joshua. Hearn says it was he who contacted Wilder’s team about having him fight his stable fighter Dillian Whyte on February 3.
By Scott Gilfoid: At Tuesday’s Websummit, former heavyweight world champion Wladimir Klitschko paid IBF/WBA champion Anthony Joshua a huge compliment by saying that he’s the best heavyweight on the planet.
By Scott Gilfoid: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder doesn’t bring much value to a fight against IBF/WBA champion Anthony Joshua, according to promoter Eddie Hearn. He says there’s no comparison between the two heavyweights as far as commercial value goes. As such, Hearn says that they’ll have to pay Wilder far more than his worth for him to accept a unification fight against Joshua.
By Jeff Aranow: World Boxing Council president Mauricio Sulaiman was on hand last Saturday night to watch the destruction of the WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder (39-0, 38 KOs) leveled on former world champion Bermane “B-Ware” Stiverne (25-3-1, 21 KOs) in halting him in the 1st round at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
By Jeff Aranow: Deontay Wilder’s manager Shelly Finkel says he had no luck when he reached out to Anthony Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn recently to try and put together a fight between the two heavyweight champions. Finkel says when he asked Hearn when can Deontay Wilder get the Joshua fight, he never phoned him back.
By Scott Gilfoid: Undefeated heavyweight contender Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller (19-0-1, 17 KOs) sees a lot of mental weakness in IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (20-0, 20 KOs) that he can take advantage of when they face each other in the near future.