Commentator Spencer Oliver predicts Anthony Joshua vs. Daniel Dubois might solely final three rounds of their twelve-round heavyweight conflict on September twenty first at Wembley Stadium in London.
Dubois = Risk to AJ’s Path to Fury
Dubois, 26, has the youth, energy, braveness, and aggressiveness to defeat Joshua and ship him into the Tyson Fury on a bitter be aware. The younger lion Dubois is able to destroy Joshua’s fastidiously constructed legacy on September twenty first and ship him into the Fury struggle underneath a black cloud with a knockout loss.
His Excellency could have his work lower out for him attempting to promote Fury-Joshua on PPV with AJ coming off a KO defeat in opposition to Dubois. He would nearly need to insist Joshua run it again with Dubois.
Joshua’s Sheltered Profession
Though the 34-year-old Joshua (28-3, 25 KOs) is the favourite, he hasn’t fought anybody of their mid-20s for nearly a decade and has been feasting on fortunate older fighters picked out for him to get assured wins.
Joshua’s timing is horrible to struggle a teenager as a result of he’s acquired the Tyson Fury match that His Excellency desires to occur in AJ’s subsequent struggle in early 2025.
AJ has been coasting on simple wins, which have been fastidiously chosen for him. The selection of opponents that Joshua has fought has stored him close to the highest of the heavyweight division, and issues would have been totally different if he’d been thrown in with the younger Lions all these years.
Potential Early Knockout
“We regularly say, ‘Kinds make fights.’ Do you suppose the fashion of those two fighters brings out a fully phenomenal struggle?” stated Simon Jordan to talkSport Boxing concerning the Anthony Joshua vs. Daniel Dubois heavyweight contest on September twenty first at Wembley Stadium.
Dubois solely fights a method, and that’s to hunt and destroy. That’s not good for Joshua as a result of he’s been preventing opposition that hung again, permitting him to fireplace photographs with out worrying about a lot coming again. Dubois shall be totally different.
“Completely. This may very well be a three-round struggle,” stated Spencer Oliver. “I actually consider that as a result of stylistically, they’ll go straight at it. Anthony Joshua doesn’t transfer on the again foot nor does Daniel Dubois.
It may very well be a three-round struggle if Joshua can’t take the heavy photographs that Dubois is hitting him with as a result of the punches that Daniel was touchdown on his final opponent, Filip Hrgovic, would put AJ in bother from the get-go on September twenty first. Hrgovic crumbled quick as soon as Dubois began placing fingers on him of their struggle on June 1st.
“Daniel Dubois shall be extra aggressive than Anthony Joshua, however he needs to be cautious that he doesn’t stroll onto one within the course of. However Joshua is equally aggressive as effectively. It is going to be a really explosive struggle. I don’t consider it in all probability goes three,” stated Oliver.
