Journalist Thomas Hauser is worried about Anthony Joshua’s mind well being after watching him get destroyed by IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois by a fifth spherical knockout final Saturday night time in London.
Thomas notes that Joshua can now not “stroll via fireplace” at this level in his profession, and he feels that persevering with to struggle is placing his well being in danger. Joshua, 34, has already created generational wealth for his household.
Hauser feels the previous two-time heavyweight champion Joshua now not has the identical equipment that he possessed within the zenith of his profession when he rose off the canvas to defeat Wladimir Klitschko. He says he’d wish to see Joshua obtain an entire neurological examination by Dr. Margaret Goodman to look at his mind well being.
Joshua possible wouldn’t retire even when his mind wasn’t given a very good invoice of well being from an MRI examination as a result of he thinks he nonetheless can compete with the very best, which clearly he can’t. He’s beginning to suspect, although.
If Joshua is crushed within the rematch with Dubois, he’ll possible retire after that defeat except His Excellency Turki Alalshikh provides him an amazing amount of cash to struggle Tyson Fury. Joshua received’t say no to a payday of $100 million+ to struggle what’s left of Fury after he’s overwhelmed a second time by Oleksandr Usyk on December twenty first.
Did the Referee Assist Joshua?
“I felt that the referee, Marcus McDonnell, didn’t do a very good job of refereeing that struggle. Deliberately or not, I felt he shaded his decision-making in favor of [Joshua],” stated Thomas Houser to Secondsout, speaking in regards to the referee who labored the Anthony Joshua vs. Daniel Dubois struggle final Saturday.
Hauser isn’t the one one who felt that the referee helped Joshua to outlive in opposition to Dubois. Some followers on social media felt that very same manner and believed that Joshua would have been knocked out a lot sooner with out the referee.
“He by no means as soon as warned him for holding, which AJ was doing all through the struggle as soon as he received hit within the first spherical. He was grappling and holding on,” stated Hauser in regards to the referee.
“You may say he needed to maintain on to outlive, which I perceive, however it’s nonetheless in opposition to the foundations. However the referee by no means even warned him for that, after which with out even any earlier warning in any respect, he took away a degree from Dubois for a low blow. Even with the referee shading issues in his favor, it was clearly not a very good night time for [Joshua].”
AJ possible would have been completed off by Dubois within the second spherical if the referee had addressed his clinching as a result of, with out that, he would have been bombarded out of existence. The top would have come shortly for Joshua, which can have been good for him. He wouldn’t have needed to take all of the punishment he absorbed in rounds three, 4, and 5.
Joshua Not The Similar Fighter
“Joshua has reached a degree in his profession, and he’s been there for some time; he doesn’t have the power to stroll via fireplace and win,” stated Hauser.” He did that in opposition to Wladimir Klitschko. He was harm, he got here again, and he received, however he was a a lot youthful man bodily[2017] and youthful psychologically then.”
It’s apparent that Joshua can now not deal with a struggle wherein he has to take care of adversity. AJ’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, had protected him with gentle matchmaking since his second loss to Oleksandr Usyk, however he may now not do this final night time when he was thrown in with the harmful predator Dubois, and we noticed the outcome.
Hearn created Joshua together with his skillful match-making, deciding on many fighters like Wladimir Klitschko, Alexander Povetkin, and Kubrat Pulev once they had been previous. Joshua would have possible misplaced to all these fighters and extra if Hearn had matched him once they had been nonetheless able-bodied and totally functioning,
“I simply don’t like all of the instances AJ was hit within the head final night time. It was surprising. It jogged my memory of the primary Andy Ruiz struggle,” stated Hauser.
Hauser: AJ Making Eddie Hearn “Huge Cash”
“Each time AJ fights, Eddie Hearn makes a large amount of cash,” stated Hauser. “There are folks on AJ’s staff that make an excessive amount of cash each time he fights. I don’t know what his bodily situation is. I’ve by no means seen an MRI from AJ. I’m certain there will probably be individuals who will say he had an ideal MRI. I’d adore it if he did a full neurological make-up with somebody like Margaret Goodman.
“I used to be troubled by seeing how he responded after getting hit onerous by Dubois for the primary time. I can simply look on and cringe each time I see Anthony Joshua get hit within the head. The Joshua that climbed off the canvas to beat Wladimir Klitschko doesn’t exist anymore. He doesn’t have the identical equipment anymore.
“I overestimated AJ, and I underestimated Dubois. I hope AJ retains his eye on the underside line, and I’m not speaking about funds as a result of I assume he has a lot cash now, generational wealth for him, his youngsters, and his grandchildren sometime. He has all that, and the underside line is his well being. Fighters don’t assume the worst may occur to them, however generally it does,” stated Hauser.
For anybody who assumed that Joshua would beat Dubois, they didn’t take a tough have a look at the opposition that he’d been combating in his earlier 4 fights after his psychological implosion after his second defeat in opposition to Usyk in 2022.
All you needed to do was have a look at who Hearn had matched Joshua in opposition to within the final two years after which observe AJ’s efficiency in opposition to Usyk to know what would occur when he received in there with Dubois.
It was all smoke and mirrors with Joshua and the naive public, who had been too lazy to look at who he’d been combating carefully. Hearn pulled the wool over the eyes of the sheep-like by making a mirage, making them assume Joshua had been totally refurbished after beating 4 tomato cans. It was all trickery by the grasp.
