This card on saturday is an absolute joke, in my opinion the worst matchroom PPV on paper since Bellew Cleverly, possibly worse. I can stomach Joshua-Takam as a headliner as I do think Takam will give Joshua a fight, hes a top 10 fighter in my book and will come to win, but hes had 2 weeks notice, 'but okay' i could stomach it providing it had a great undercard (what Hearn had promised when it was made). Buglioni-Johnson and Allen-Thomas weren't of massive interest to me anyway, but they were competitive 50/50 fights, the only 2 on the bill, both pulled now due to injury/illness. Whyte-Helenius doesn't interest me at all, Whyte is an average fighter and Helenius again has had 2 weeks notice, and is damaged goods these days anyway. There isn't one fight on this card that im particularly looking forward too, the original card was a poor one anyway, depsite the pullouts etc. I know its not excatly Eddie Hearns fault if a fighter pulls out, but to sell 75k tickets and bring in probably nearly a million PPV buys, this card is absolute [Poor language removed]. Previous Joshua undercards have at least had a couple of good fights on for actual boxing fans, Groves-Murray, Eubank-Spike, Whyte-Chisora etc and not just casuals wanting to look at darling Joshua use his big sexy muscles to knock someone out.
Cheers Eddie, I look forward to your next IFL interview talking about how much a good place boxing is in and how much money you and AJ have made from this card.
