Anthony Joshua boxing news
By Dan Ambrose: Former 4 time world champion Adrien “The Problem” Broner says IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin will lose to Saul “Canelo” Alvarez when the two of them get around to facing each other. Broner is picking Canelo to knock Golovkin out with a head shot.
By Scott Gilfoid: Recent world title challenger Gerald Washington turned down a chance to work as a sparring partner with IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (18-0, 18 KOs) in order to soak up the knowledge of firmer undisputed heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-4, 53 KOs) to get him ready for his April 29 fight at Wembley Stadium in London, England.
By Scott Gilfoid: This months’ fight between IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko will be shown on both HBO Championship Boxing and on Showtime in the U.S on April 29. The Jacobs-Klitschko fight will be taking place at the 90,000 seat Wembley Stadium in London, England.
By Scott Gilfoid: Anthony Joshua says his goal is to become a billionaire in the sport of boxing. The IBF heavyweight champion Joshua (18-0, 18 KOs) says his original goal when he first started out in the pro ranks was to be a millionaire. Now that he’s achieved that, he wants to go past what he sees from ordinary people to that of the billionaire status.
By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBO junior middleweight champion Liam “Beefy” Smith (24-1-1, 13 KOs) came in 1 ½ pounds over the 154lb weigh-in limit on Friday in weighing in at 155.9 lbs. for his fight for the interim WBO junior middleweight title against Liam Williams (16-0-1, 11 KOs) for their important bout this Saturday night on April 8 at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England.
By Scott Gilfoid: WBO lightweight title holder Terry Flanagan (32-0, 13 KOs) successfully weighed in on Friday in coming in at 134 ½ pounds for his title defense against No.2 Petr Petrov (38-4-2, 19 KOs) this Saturday night at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England. Petrov weighed 134.6 lbs. This is a fight that the 5’9” Flanagan is expected to win because he’s got a considerable height – and weight – advantage over the 5’6” Petrov. Flanagan looked mighty thin standing next to Petrov tonight.
Former World Champion Wladimir Klitschko is facing IBF champion Anthony Joshua on April 29 at Wembley Stadium, and Wladimir is determined as never before.
“I am obsessed with winning this fight”, Wladimir Klitschko said at today’s media event in Austria in front of about 50 journalists. “It’s important for me to prove to myself that I am able to defeat every man facing me in the ring. I am ready to walk a long and hard walk to show myself that I can master myself and can be proud of myself.”
By Scott Gilfoid: Wladimir Klitschko notes that his opponent Anthony Joshua has a lot of big muscles from his hard training in the gym, but he wants him to know that boxing is the “sweet science” and it’s just about having a lot of muscles. Klitschko, 41, thinks Jacobs has put on all these huge muscles to try and feel confident. But he wants him to know that the sport is science rather than just packing on a ton of muscles.
By Scott Gilfoid: Tyson Fury can forget about ever getting a rematch with Wladimir Klitschko because it’s never going to happen, according to the big Ukrainian’s manager Bernd Boente. He says Wladimir (64-4, 53 KOs) lost 1 year of his career trying to get a rematch with Fury, and they don’t want to put any more time into facing him again.
