Boxing analyst Tony Bellew predicts a fast knockout victory for Anthony Joshua towards Daniel Dubois if the 2 battle on September twenty first.
It’s nonetheless too early to know if Joshua will face Dubois subsequent as a result of his promoter, Eddie Hearn, says the total IBF title should be obtainable earlier than he makes that battle.
Bellew says IBF interim heavyweight champion Dubois’ protection is just too pourous for him to take the right-hand energy photographs from Joshua (28-3, 25 KOs) with out rapidly folding instantly.
Joshua’s Current Knockout Energy
“If he fights AJ subsequent, it ends rapidly and brutally,” mentioned Tony Bellew to iFL TV, predicting a quick knockout win for Anthony Joshua if he faces IBF interim heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois subsequent in September.
“Purely primarily based on the truth that, let’s simply put two and two collectively right here. He took 56 clear proper arms within the first 4 rounds,” mentioned Bellew about Dubois in his battle towards Filip Hrgovic on June 1st in Riyadh.
It seems that Bellew’s excessive notion of the soon-to-be 35-year-old Joshua’s knockout means relies on his quick second-round knockout of 0-1 boxing novice Francis Ngannou final March in Riyadh.
Joshua hadn’t knocked anyone else out that rapidly since earlier in his profession when he KO’d Charles Martin in 2016 and Gary Cornish in 2015.
These two fighters had been each restricted guys who had been nowhere close to the extent of Dubois, and Joshua was so much youthful than he’s now. AJ is older than Adrien Broner. Let that sink in for a second.
Bellew Acknowledges Dubois’ Resilience
“You’ll get away with one or two towards AJ, after which you understand what occurs? You then acquired to sleep,” mentioned Bellew. “I take nothing away from him. Wonderful resilience and an enormous quantity of braveness towards Filip Hrgovic, however it’s one factor Filip Hrgovic hitting you and one other factor a wrecking Machine like Anthony Joshua hitting you,” mentioned Bellew.
Joshua just isn’t younger, and Hearn panicked after he misplaced two consecutive fights to Oleksandr Usyk. After the second loss to Usyk, Hearn started feeding towards lesser opposition, which he’s accomplished in his final 4 consecutive tights.
“I don’t need to take something away from Daniel Dubois in any approach, form, or kind as a result of he’s accomplished superb. He proved me mistaken. I assumed Filip Hrgovic would put on him out, beat him up, and cease him. He let Filip Hrgovic punch himself out,” mentioned Bellew.
If Bellew had watched Hrgovic’s fights towards Dempsey McKean and Zhilei Zhang, he would have seen that he was not that good of a fighter.
He’d have understood that there was a superb opportunity that Hrgovic would crumble towards Dubois as soon as he began taking photographs, as a result of he clearly misplaced to Zhang and he was harm by McKean.
“He mainly accomplished the rope-a-dope that Muhammad Ali accomplished [against George Foreman on October 30, 1974], however took each single punch. He [Dubois] let somebody hit him so many occasions he [Hrgovic] acquired drained, and that’s what he accomplished. Wonderful resilience, Daniel Dubois. I tipped my hat to you; nicely accomplished,” mentioned Bellew.
