Eddie Hearn says he’s happy with how Anthony Joshua stood his floor in his devasting knockout loss to Daniel Dubois in London. He feels that Joshua (28-4, 23 KOs) confirmed a number of braveness to maintain getting up after being repeatedly dropped by Dubois.
Joshua nearly pulled off an enormous comeback when he had Dubois damage within the fifth spherical after nailing him with a monster proper hand. Sadly for AJ, the first-round knockdown induced him to operate at solely “30%.”
Hearn believes the primary spherical knockdown Joshua suffered price him the combat as a result of he by no means recovered from it. IBF heavyweight champion Dubois (22-2, 21 KOs) took benefit of Joshua’s weakened punch resistance after spherical one to provide him a foul shellacking in rounds two, three, 4, and 5.
AJ was down 4 instances within the combat, and the ultimate knockdown within the fifth was the brutal one as a result of he seemed near being unconscious after getting hit with a proper hand that he didn’t see coming from Dubois.
Followers on social media consider Joshua, 34, won’t ever be the identical after the beating he took towards Dubois. It might be a good suggestion for Hearn to surrender on his speak of a rematch as a result of Joshua doesn’t have to face Dubois ever once more after what he did to him.
“In order for you drama, you bought drama. Not in the best way we wished to. Within the first spherical, he went straight again together with his chin within the air and received hit with a monster proper hand,” stated Eddie Hearn to Charlie Parson’s YouTube channel, discussing Anthony Joshua’s loss to Daniel Dubois.
“Within the second spherical, he took a shellacking. He was out of the combat; the combat was over. I really thought the combat was over on the finish of the second spherical, and the third spherical was simply holding on for pricey life. He really was capable of buzz Dubois within the third spherical, and it slowed Dubois down very barely.”
Dubois didn’t look damage by Joshua within the third. Within the fourth, Dubois was barely shocked by one among Joshua’s proper arms, but it surely wasn’t important. It seemed like Dubois was gassed out greater than damage within the spherical as a result of he’d thrown a number of photographs in rounds one and two.
“Then, within the fourth spherical, I began to suppose, ‘He’s getting his wind again, AJ.’ He damage Dubois once more within the fourth spherical, after which within the fifth spherical, he [Joshua] had him. He hit him with a monster proper hand, and the legs went, Dubois. The issue was that AJ was about 30% at that time,” stated Hearn.
Joshua was determined by the fifth spherical. So, he selected to go full in for the knockout when he shocked Dubois with an enormous shot. If AJ had taken a cautious strategy, he wasn’t going to final for much longer anyway. He wasn’t the identical after the primary spherical, and Dubois frequently damage him.
“He got here in to attempt to end the job and walked onto a monster proper hand from Dubois, and that was all she wrote,” stated Hearn. “I used to be considering, ‘If we come again from right here, this will probably be one of many best comeback victories of all time.’ However sadly, he walked onto an enormous proper hand.
“I stated to him, ‘You couldn’t have finished any extra. When it’s throughout, you’ll be able to have a look at your self within the mirror and say I attempted my absolute nuts in there tonight.’ He gave it every part. Congradulations to Daniel Dubois. He had an ideal begin.”
It’s a tricky loss for Joshua to just accept as a result of he was the favourite to win and was combating a man with nowhere close to the identical expertise or profession achievements. Joshua wans’t speculated to lose this combat, but he did.
You may blame the loss on Joshua coming in wanting cumbersome, carrying round an excessive amount of muscle, and backing up when underneath assault by Dubois. All of these issues have been an excessive amount of for Joshua to beat towards a fighter with youth and energy that Dubois had.
“That was a fear, I assume, and it simply received worse. He got here via some massive photographs as effectively. He was damage, and he stood his floor. What AJ did was he held his ft and by no means stopped attempting to land massive photographs,” stated Hearn.
