Eddie Hearn, when talking with IFL TV, mentioned that whereas there’s nothing concrete so far as who Anthony Joshua will struggle subsequent, his subsequent bout is ready to happen at Wembley in September, and a press convention will happen on the finish of the month, with the opponent announcement made then. There are at present three names within the combine so far as who AJ will face on Turki Alalshikh’s subsequent massive card: Daniel Dubois, Joseph Parker, and Zhilei Zhang.
Hearn mentioned that if an opportunity comes up for AJ to struggle for the complete IBF belt, that is the struggle he’ll go for. As followers know, Dubois turned the IBF interim heavyweight champion along with his upset stoppage win over Filip Hrgovic. Loads of followers assume fairly strongly will probably be Dubois subsequent for AJ, this in a Battle of Britain affair. However Hearn says “there’s nothing agreed or confirmed,” so far as who Joshua will struggle in his second struggle of this 12 months; AJ, in fact, scoring that crunching KO win over Francis Ngannou again in March.
“His excellency would really like AJ to headline at Wembley,” Hearn mentioned. “It might be unbelievable for Riyadh season and for British boxing, who the opponent will probably be is undecided. You’ve obtained Zhilei Zhang, an incredible struggle; you’ve obtained Daniel Dubois, one other nice struggle. You’ve obtained Joseph Parker, who’s on an incredible run…….The goal for us is AJ to change into world heavyweight champion [again], and if the IBF belt turns into accessible, which we anticipate it to, then there’s an opportunity of Dubois towards AJ for the world heavyweight title.”
As everybody is aware of, Oleksandr Usyk is, and can proceed to be, till he’s both defeated within the ring or he retires THE world heavyweight champion. Nonetheless, it will maybe be a bargaining asset AJ would win if he had been to defeat Dubois and declare the complete IBF strap. Then, possibly Joshua would go into an enormous struggle with the winner of the Usyk-Tyson Fury rematch. Possibly.
For now, so far as who AJ fights in September, Dubois actually does need to be checked out because the frontrunner, despite the fact that Zhang and Parker can be very attention-grabbing opponents for Joshua. Each Parker and Zhang desire a shot at revenge over AJ; Zhang having been decisioned by him at novice degree at London 2012, Parker dropping a call towards Joshua again in 2018.
Of the three names listed right here, who would YOU choose to see Joshua, 28-3(25) struggle in his subsequent struggle? Once more, all three fights are attention-grabbing, however for me, there’s something a couple of Joshua-Zhang rumble that actually fascinates.
Hearn says we’ll all know much more come the presser set for both June twenty fifth or June twenty sixth.
