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Anthony Joshua vs. Dominic Breazeale official weights

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By Scott Gilfoid: IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (16-0, 16 KOs) weighed in at his lightest weight in two years in weighing in at 243 ¼ pounds at Friday’s weigh-in for his title defense on Saturday night against unbeaten #13 IBF challenger Dominic Breazeale (17-0, 15 KOs) at the O2 Arena in London, England.

For his part, Breazeale weighed in at 255 pounds, which is slightly heavier than the 252 ¾ pounds he came in for his last bout against Amir Mansour last January. Breazeale will be sporting a 12 pound weight and a one inch height advantage over Joshua when the two of them get inside the ring on Saturday night at the O2 Arena.

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Joshua to Breazeale: “You’re in my jungle now!”

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By Scott Gilfoid: IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (16-0, 16 KOs) says he has no pressure on him for his first title defense of his IBF belt this Saturday night against unbeaten American challenger Dominic Breazeale (17-0, 15 KOs). Joshua will be defending his title in his own hometown in London, England, at the O2 Arena.

Joshua calls the place his “jungle,’ and it’s hard to know whether he feels Breazeale can’t win a decision or what.

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Lennox Lewis says Tyson Fury better than Anthony Joshua

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By Scott Gilfoid: While Matchroom Sport promoter Barry Hearn says he thinks IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is the No.1 heavyweight in the division, former world champion Lennox Lewis isn’t on board with that opinion. Until he sees Joshua fight in a 12 round contest and show some boxing ability, he feels that IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) is the best by virtue of his recent 12 round decision win over Wladimir Klitschko last November.

Lewis isn’t sure whether the heavily muscled 6’6”, 250lb Joshua can actually box, because he’s not shown it in the past. Joshua has shown that he can slug, and that’s all he’s shown since turning pro in 2013.

You can make an argument that Joshua showed a tiny bit of boxing in his fight against Dillian Whyte in 2015, when he backed off from him after getting knocked silly by a left hook in round two. However, Joshua didn’t use any movement to speak of in that fight. He just backed up and stayed on the outside and didn’t mix it up like he’d done in the first two rounds.

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Joshua says he’d fight Deontay Wilder in U.S

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By Scott Gilfoid: IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (16-0, 16 KOs) says he’d be willing to come to the United States to fight WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder (36-0, 35 KOs) in the future in a fight that would be televised on Showtime, the network that recently signed the 26-year-old fighter to a multi-fight contract to have his UK staged fights televised in America.

Wilder, 6’7”, already said this week that he would like to fight Joshua this year in October or November if he wins his fight against the American talent Dominic Breazeale (17-0, 15 KOs) this Saturday night at the O2 Arena in London, UK.

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Wilder: Joshua vs. Breazeale is 50-50 fight

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By Scott Gilfoid: Well, it doesn’t look like WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder sees this Saturday’s fight between IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and challenger Dominic Breazeale as a mismatch like many boxing fans and writers do. Joshua is a heavy favorite to defeat the 6’7” Breazeale. However, Deontay sees the contest as a 50-50 fight, because he thinks Breazeale is going to come into the match looking to make a name for himself.

This is Breazeale’s big chance to make a fortune becoming set for life financially if he can beat Joshua, because a win over the British fighter will set up a big money rematch between them. Breazeale could make millions in a rematch.

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Joshua vs. Breazeale – Dominic planning to KO Anthony

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By Scott Gilfoid: Dominic “Trouble” Breazeale (17-0, 15 KOs) sees himself as the new lion in town and he feels he’s going to come in and beat the lion Anthony Joshua (16-0, 16 KOs) on Saturday night and take his IBF heavyweight title. Breazeale says he’s going to knockout the 26-year-old Joshua, and he’s very confident he’ll be able to do that in their fight at the O2 Arena in London, UK. Breazeale has spent a lot of time looking at Joshua’s past fights, and he’s spotted a number of flaws in his game that he feels he can take advantage of them.

There’s a lot to look at in terms of flaws in Joshua’s game when you see him fight. He tends to bum rush his opponents, and he seems to be too inclined to slug with anyone. That’s a product of him having faced a lot of opposition that didn’t have the talent to make him cautious. In other words, Joshua doesn’t seem to know better yet that he should use some boxing in his fights. He thinks he can steam roll everyone based on being the taller and heavier fighter.

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Deontay Wilder to be analyst for Joshua-Breazeale fight on Saturday

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By Allan Fox: In what has to be seen as Showtime looking to create interested in a unification fight between WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder and IBF champion Anthony Joshua, Wilder will be working as a guest analyst this Saturday night on June 25 for Joshua’s title defense against Dominic Breazeale on Showtime.

A match between Joshua and Wilder would be a huge fight and would likely bring in tremendous ratings both in the U.S an in the UK. It would be a shot in the arm of adrenalin for Showtime and Premier Boxing Champions having that fight take place.

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Tyson Fury is the No.1 heavyweight on the planet, says Peter F.

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By Scott Gilfoid: Trainer Peter Fury totally disagrees with Matchroom Sport promoter Barry Hearn, who said on Monday that he sees his fighter IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (16-0, 16 KOs) as the best heavyweight on the planet. Peter thinks Hearn is way off, but he understands it’s just his own personal opinion and not reality.

Peter says the 6’9” Fury is the No.1 fighter on the planet, and points to his victory last November over former longtime champion Wladimir Klitschko as proof of that. That win over the 40-year-old Wladimir is enough to make Peter believe that Fury is top dog in the world.

I hate to be the one that drizzles over the Peter and Hearn’s vision thing, but I don’t see either Fury or Joshua as the No.1 fighter in the planet.

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Deontay Wilder: I want Joshua or Fury in October or November

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By Jeff Aranow: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder says he’s ready to fight a unification match against IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua or IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury if they win their next fights and if they’re interested in fighting him. Wilder says he’s wants to fight either of those guys.

Whether a unification fight takes place between one of those to British champions will depend on them winning, and Wilder winning his next fight against Chris Arreola on July 16. Of course, it also will depend on Joshua or Fury’s promoters being open to letting them fight Wilder in a risky unification match.

Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn wants to match him against Fury in November. Fury says he would like to fight Joshua or Wilder. Fury would likely take the bigger money fight against Joshua, however.

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Joshua vs. Breazeale: Whyte faces Bacurin on undercard

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By Scott Gilfoid: Heavyweight Dillian Whyte (16-1, 13 KOs) now yet another replacement opponent that he’ll be fighting this Saturday night on June 25 in journeyman Ivica Bacurin (24-9-1, 14 KOs) in a six-round fight on the undercard of the title fight between IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and Dominic Breazeale at the O2 Arena in London, UK. I don’t expect Bacurin to last more than a round or two against Whyte. The only way this fight goes past the 2nd round is if Whyte wants it to.

Whyte was originally supposed to be fighting Cyril Leonet, but then he couldn’t take the fight and was replaced by 39-year-old American journeyman Danny Batchelder. That fight now isn’t happening either, so the 33-year-old Bacurin gets the call for the fight.

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