Is Anthony Joshua vs. Tyson Fury a lifeless combat after “AJ” was knocked out by Daniel Dubois within the fifth spherical of their championship combat this weekend? Not in line with Fury’s supervisor Spencer Brown, who stated there’s nonetheless huge want from Saudi boxing energy dealer Turki Alalshikh to make the combat occur.
“Possibly we see Tyson in opposition to Anthony Joshua,” Brown advised FightHubTV’s Marcos Villegas. “They’ve all the time stated they’re going to combat one another and His Excellency additionally stated that win, lose, or draw he desires them to combat one another.”
The heavyweight division is definitely getting extra cluttered as Fury and Joshua battle with opponents like Oleksandr Usyk and Daniel Dubois. A combat between the 2 would nonetheless be big, however not as big as in the event that they’d confronted one another years in the past once they have been each undefeated. And now Joshua’s loss is pulling Fury in direction of a Dubois combat as a substitute.
Fury vs Dubois?
I requested Fury’s supervisor Spencer Brown what are the possibilities we see that as he reveals no matter outcome Turki desires to see the Joshua vs Fury combat. pic.twitter.com/Rn1xxcSnm1
— Marcos Villegas (@heyitsmarcosv) September 22, 2024
“After I combat Usyk in December, I’ll take all of the belts that I by no means ought to have misplaced,” he advised FightHubTV. “After which I’ll combat Dubois and take that [belt] off him as properly. That’s my plan.”
It might be that these eager to see Fury vs. Joshua now must hope that Fury loses to Usyk in December. For his half, “The Gypsy King” didn’t kick “AJ” whereas he was down.
“It’s heavyweight boxing, boys,” he stated of Joshua’s loss. “It occurs. S— occurs. You get knocked spark out. It may have been me, it may have been you, it may have been anyone. Within the heavyweight division, it’s what occurs. One punch away from being smashed, knocked out. What went unsuitable is what all the time goes unsuitable in heavyweight boxing: a great proper hand to the chin, and that was it.”
‼️ Anthony Joshua provides credit score to Daniel Dubois and insists he is not going to be retiring from boxing as he provides a quick post-fight press convention after his KO defeat: “After all I wanna proceed preventing. I am a warrior.”
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Following the defeat, there was loads of speak that Joshua ought to retire. However the 34-year-old pushed again on that throughout the post-fight press convention.
“You’re in all probability asking, do I nonetheless need to proceed preventing?” he stated. “After all I need to proceed preventing. We took a shot at success and we got here up brief. What does that imply now, are we going to run away? We’re going to dwell to combat one other day. That’s what I’m: a warrior.”
“We rolled the cube for the third time. That’s 13 world title fights, and never each one has been profitable, however each one has been superb and entertaining. We’re making an attempt to create historical past for British boxing, and I believe we’re doing that.”
