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PaulieMc said:
He's still better than any other heavyweight around right now. It boggles my mind that people seriously think Joshua would batter him just because he has muscles and Fury looks a bit of slob. Joshua has fought knock-overs his entire career and will next fight an old man coming off a loss and several bad injuries. As soon as he fights someone fresh who will fight him back he'll shatter.
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Nonsense, Joshua has had a similar career trajectory to most Heavyweights, if anything he has progressed to harder fights quicker than most. The only fight out there more dangerous than the Klitschko fight is Deontay Wilder, and I expect that to happen in 2017 if Joshua comes through the Klitschko fight. Who would you have had him fight to test him (Fury is not an option for obvious reasons).

In the top 10 fighters in the heavyweight division (boxrec) Joshua has had the least fights yet boxed the second most boxers ranked in the top 20 in the division (3) - Molina (ranked 16), Charles Martin (ranked 10) & Dillian Whyte (ranked 15). Wilder has faced 4 (Szpilka @19, Duhaupas @9, Molina @16, Scott @12) in 37 fights, anyone else in the top 10 has at most faced only 2 fighters ranked in the top 20. Only AJ and Wilder have boxed anyone else ranked in the top 10 (AJ - Martin, Wilder - Duhaupas). Only Pulev (ranked 4th) in the top 10 has faced Klitschko and he lost. AJ is also the secon youngest in the top 10 at 27 behind Parker who is 24. He has also been boxing the least amount of time in the Pro ranks since October 2013, Parker and Martin started in 2012.

So by pretty much any measure you want to use he has fought more 'ranked' fighters and beaten them (easily) in less time than anyone else in the division with less experience, yet he has only fought "knock-overs"?
 
malcson said:
Nonsense, Joshua has had a similar career trajectory to most Heavyweights, if anything he has progressed to harder fights quicker than most. The only fight out there more dangerous than the Klitschko fight is Deontay Wilder, and I expect that to happen in 2017 if Joshua comes through the Klitschko fight. Who would you have had him fight to test him (Fury is not an option for obvious reasons).

In the top 10 fighters in the heavyweight division (boxrec) Joshua has had the least fights yet boxed the second most boxers ranked in the top 20 in the division (3) - Molina (ranked 16), Charles Martin (ranked 10) & Dillian Whyte (ranked 15). Wilder has faced 4 (Szpilka @19, Duhaupas @9, Molina @16, Scott @12) in 37 fights, anyone else in the top 10 has at most faced only 2 fighters ranked in the top 20. Only AJ and Wilder have boxed anyone else ranked in the top 10 (AJ - Martin, Wilder - Duhaupas). Only Pulev (ranked 4th) in the top 10 has faced Klitschko and he lost. AJ is also the secon youngest in the top 10 at 27 behind Parker who is 24. He has also been boxing the least amount of time in the Pro ranks since October 2013, Parker and Martin started in 2012.

So by pretty much any measure you want to use he has fought more 'ranked' fighters and beaten them (easily) in less time than anyone else in the division with less experience, yet he has only fought "knock-overs"?
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Great post this, really agree with it.

I think as well it will take a couple of years to appreciate how good a performance it was against Dylan Whyte, who will go on to have a decent career himself (he'd beat Parker).

If he tags Klitschko early and really painfully, he's in the clear air above the mountains; he's essentially the de facto best in the division outside of the States (and this from a Fury fan but I'm taking it as him retired) and he's all set up for the monster Wilder fight.
 

bluebrotha77 said:
Kell brook v amir khan looking like it's gonna be a goer.
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finally, its taken far too long and would've been bigger if they hadn't both got knocked out (or about to be in brooks case) in their last fights. its mad how instead of just getting canelo-golovkin and khan-brook, we got canelo-khan and golovkin-brook first, then khan-brook and hopefully canelo-golovkin later next year. i think Khan will outbox him then get knocked out, as usual, he'd be brilliant if he had a good chin, Khan.
 
-wizard- said:
anyone else heard about nick blackwell? since losing his boxing licence earlier this year thro a brain injury, he has turned his hand to training, he decided to do some sparring (which he was not allowed to do) and got caught and is in hospital again.

http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/boxi...ck-blackwell/story-29980436-detail/story.html
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yeah I heard about that last week on a podcast. It must be hard for him having his career ripped away .

I see Crawford has been jailed for 90 days for a 'dispute' with someone at a garage who was supposed to be fixing his car
 

That young lad Joshua looks a real talent
He reminds me of a young Tyson but taller
If i can get past klichco & that Wilder he could rule the heavyweight division for years
 

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