Joshua vs. Klitschko

Joshua needs win over Molina to get Klitschko

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By Scott Gilfoid: IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (17-0, 17 KOs) one last obstacle in front of him in Eric Molina (25-3, 19 KOs) before he faces 40-year-old Wladimir Klitschko on April 29, 2017. According to ESPN, the Joshua-Klitschko fight is a done deal. The Joshua-Klitschko fight will take place at the 80,000 seat Wembley Stadium in London, UK.

It would be funny as heck if Joshua loses to Molina. He’s supposed to be just an opponent for this fight, but you know how that goes. Molina is the B-side in the equation on Saturday. In other words, Molina is not supposed to win. There’s too much at stake. Molina isn’t going to let it to go the cards.

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Klitschko/Joshua a done deal for April 29, Wembley Stadium

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By Bradley D. Cision: At a venue that once hosted 80,000 plus screaming fans for Carl Froch vs. George Groves, we will see a great match up on April 29, 2017 with former Champion Wladimir Klitschko challenging Anthony Joshua for his IBF Championship title.

In a time when fighters like Adonis Stevenson, Danny Garcia, and Canelo Alvarez are not fighting the best, these two fighters are daring to be great and putting it all on the line against each other.

This fight is guaranteed to generate a HUGE live gate and draw a lot of attention worldwide. THIS is the fight to be made in the heavyweight division right now, with Deontay Wilder sitting on the sidelines with an injury.

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Lewis talks Joshua-Klitschko fight

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By Scott Gilfoid: Former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis expects the Anthony Joshua vs. Wladimir Klitschko fight to take place in the near future. Lewis sees the 40-year-old Wladimir wanting to win back his IBF/WBA heavyweight world titles that he lost to Tyson Fury last year in November.

Wladimir would obviously prefer to fight the guy that beat him in Fury, but he can’t do that right now with him ot of the boxing ring taking care of personal problems. Lewis notes. So he sees Wladimir facing Joshua to win back his two of his straps that he lost to the 6’9” Fury a year ago.

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WBA sanctions Anthony Joshua vs. Wladimir Klitschko fight

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By Scott Gilfoid: IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko will be the two heavyweights that will be fighting over the vacant World Boxing Association ‘Super Championship’ belt in the first quarter of 2017, according to the WBA. This is the second WBA heavyweight title that will be fought over.

The WBA also ordered Shannon Briggs and Lucas “Big Daddy” Browne to fight for the WBA ‘regular’ heavyweight title. This is good news for fans. Wladimir (64-4, 53 KOs) gets to fight Joshua (17-0, 17 KOs) for the WBA strap, and you get Browne and the 44-year-old Briggs fighting for the WBA’s junior heavyweight strap.

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Wladimir Klitschko wants Anthony Joshua in March or April 2017

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By Scott Gilfoid: Former heavyweight champion Wladimir “Steel hammer” Klitschko (64-4, 53 KOs) says he’s not about to retire from boxing, and he’s very much interested in facing IBF heavyweight belt holder Anthony Joshua (17-0, 17 KOs) in March or April of 2017. The soon to be 41-year-old Klitschko thinks a fight between him and the 26-year-old Joshua will be the hugest fight at heavyweight in many years.

It’s a fight that would certainly give Wladimir and Joshua big paydays. However, it might under produce like the dud between Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis in 2002. There was a TREMENDOUS amount of hype before that fight, even though Tyson was clearly no longer the fighter he’d been in the late 1980s. As such, it was a fight that was 15 years too late.

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Hearn: Why wouldn’t WBA sanction Joshua-Klitschko?

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By Scott Gilfoid: The World Boxing Association is expected to make their decision today whether to sanction the December 10 fight between IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko. Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn is bellyaching something fierce about the rumors of the 40-year-old Wladimir facing Lucas “Big Daddy” Browne on December 10 in Hamburg, Germany.

Hearn has been talking about Wladimir taking on a “soft touch” instead of facing the 27-year-old Joshua. However, Wladimir appears to be making sure that he has a good Plan-B opponent in case the WBA chooses not to sanction the fight, which is clearly a very smart thing for the talented Ukrainian to do.

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WBA to decide on Joshua-Klitschko fight on Thursday

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By Scott Gilfoid: The good news for IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and his promoter Eddie Hearn is they won’t have to wait too much longer to fight out if the World Boxing Association will sanction their fight against Wladimir Klitschko for their fight on December 10 at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England. WBA president Gilberto Mendez Jr. says the WBA committee has a deadline of Wednesday to make a decision.

Mendoza said to ESPN.com this about whether the WBA will sanction the Klitschko vs. Joshua fight this week:

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Hearn: Anthony Joshua to fight on December 10

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By Scott Gilfoid: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn says IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (17-0, 17 KOs) will be fighting on December 10 with or without Wladimir Klitschko at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England. Hearn hopes Wladimir will take the fight against the 27-year-old Joshua instead of facing a “soft touch” in Germany.

Wladimir could be facing Lucas Browne on December 10 in Germany. Browne is a step up from the guys that Joshua has been fighting in his last three fights against Dominic Breazeale, Charles Martin and Dillian Whyte.

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Joshua-Wladimir looking for “alternative options” for December

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By Scott Gilfoid: IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua was hoping to fight the talented but against 40-year-old Wladimir Klitschko in a fight that would have taken place in December at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, UK. There’s no word yet about who Klitschko and Joshua will fight if they don’t face each other.

Both want to fight in December. It’s especially important for Wladimir to fight in December, because he hasn’t fought in an entire year since last November in his 12 round decision loss to Tyson Fury. Wladimir isn’t going to waste more time. A good plan B for Joshua would be David Haye; although that’s a fight that wouldn’t be made quickly.

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Joshua vs. Klitschko NOT happening!

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By Scott Gilfoid: It looks like the Anthony Joshua vs. Wladimir Klitschko fight IS NOT happening now, according to Dan Rafael. There are some issues that are holding up their December 10 fight, and Wladimir (64-4, 53 KOs) is now looking in another direction for a different opponent for December. There’s no word about what has caused Wladimir to lose interest in the fight with Joshua. I wouldn’t be surprised if the sanctioning bodies won’t have the WBA or WBO title on the line in addition to Joshua’s IBF strap. I don’t think it was a great deal for Wladimir anyway as far as him having to fight in Joshua’s country rather than someplace else.

“I’m told by a good source there are issues closing Joshua vs. Klitschko so Klitschko is now also looking at another possible December fight,” said Dan Rafael on his Twitter.

Wladimir wanted to fight for at least two of the belts. If all he’s going to get is to fight for Joshua’s IBF strap, then that’s not worth it.

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