Anthony Joshua boxing news
By Jim Dower: Heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua says former champion Tyson Fury needs to start fighting already and forget about commentating about different guys he wants to fight. Joshua (21-0, 20 KOs) says he’d like to fight the 29-year-old Fury, but he’s not going to wait around for ages for him to finally make his comeback to the sport.
By Scott Gilfoid: Anthony Joshua says he’s ready to give WBC heavyweight champion Deontay ‘Bronze Bomber’ Wilder (40-0, 39 KOs) a very good offer for a fight between them that he feels he should readily accept.
By Scott Gilfoid: The World Boxing Association has officially ordered the fight between WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin. The management for the two fighters has 30 days to negotiate the fight before a purse bid takes place.
By Mark McCourt: A hot topic in boxing at the minute for many reasons. This must happen fight seems to have polarised fans. On one hand we have people that believe Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder is the baddest man on the planet, the cream of the crop of heaveyweights. With his ridiculous KO power he has the rest of the division hiding from him especially AJ and his outspoken promoter. On the other we have people that literally see AJ as the next coming of Muhammed Ali, they seem to think his quick rise to the top of the division and his exciting fight with Klitschko have shown him to be the figurative saviour of the heaveyweight division.
By Scott Gilfoid: Eddie Hearn can forget about trying to push Dillian Whyte onto Alexander Povetkin, as the Russian fighter is making it clear that he ONLY wants his WBA mandated title shot against Anthony Joshua now.
By Damian Poole: As of lately there has been an ever-increasing amount of talk surround the possible unification fight between Britain’s Anthony Joshua (21, 0-20 KOs) and America’s Deontay Wilder (40-0, 39 KOs). Some fan are saying, Anthony and his promoter Eddie Hearn are ducking Wilder, while others are saying Wilder is scared to face Whyte before Joshua a d losing his big pay day.
By Allan Fox: Deontay Wilder could be facing Anthony Joshua in a unification fight in September or December if Matchoom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn gets his way. Hearn says he’s putting together a deal in which Wilder and Joshua both take interim fights, and then if they come out victorious, then they’ll meet later this year in September or December, according to ESPN.
By Scott Gilfoid: Eddie Hearn is expressing confidence that the huge heavyweight unification fight between Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder will take place before the end of the year. Hearn says he’s spoken with Showtime and Wilder’s adviser Al Haymon and he likes the chances of it happening.
By Scott Gilfoid: Former world title challenger Kubrat Pulev (25-1, 13 KOs) has accepted the IBF heavyweight title eliminator fight against Matchroom Boxing fighter Dillian Whyte (23-1, 17 KOs) to determine the mandatory challenger to IBF champion Anthony Joshua. If the Pulev vs. Whyte IBF eliminator match takes place, it’ll happen in June.
By Scott Gilfoid: Matchroom Boxing head honcho Eddie Hearn doesn’t buy Deontay Wilder’s statement from today saying that he wants to face Anthony Joshua next in the UK, so he says he’s going to be looking to match AJ against unbeaten Jarrell ‘Big Baby’ Miller (20-0-1, 18 KOs) if wins his fight on April 28 against former heavyweight world title challenger Johann Duhaupas.