Journalist Gareth A. Davies doesn’t imagine a rematch will occur between Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois in gentle of the result of their conflict final month. He feels that there’s an excessive amount of threat for Joshua being “mained and mauled” by IBF heavyweight champion Dubois (22-2, 21 KOs) to face him a second time.

Gareth thinks that Joshua (28-4, 25 KOs) will as an alternative sit and wait on the result of the Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk rematch on December twenty first. If Fury loses, as most imagine he’ll, Joshua will combat him subsequent. There’s an excessive amount of cash out there for AJ and Fury to seize for them to not combat.

Joshua seemed out of his league final month, getting dropped 4 instances in his fifth-round knockout loss to Dubois at Wembley Stadium in London. If that combat had been aggressive, a rematch would probably make sense. It wasn’t aggressive, and a rematch would possible be the same bloodbath.

“My intestine feeling is it gained’t,” mentioned Gareth A. Davies to Professional Boxing Followers about whether or not the Anthony Joshua vs. Daniel Dubois rematch will occur. “In the long run, my feeling is that they’ll say, ‘Let’s simply wait and see what occurs with Fury and Usyk.’ If Fury loses Usyk the second time, perhaps we put Joshua in with Fury now.

“If Fury wins, I believe Fury and Usyk will in all probability have a trilogy. That’s the sense that I’m getting from individuals. My intuition is he [Joshua] gained’t find yourself instantly rematching Daniel Dubois, but when he does, it’ll in all probability be in February.

“Punch resistance is gone? I don’t find out about that. I believe Daniel Dubois punches actually onerous,” mentioned Gareth, reacting to being advised that Carl Froch had commented about his perception that Joshua’s punch resistance is gone after watching him get obliterated by Dubois.

“He was caught flush early, and he spent 9 minutes making an attempt to get well and maintain a foothold within the combat, which he did brilliantly to do. Then he threw his entire lot within the first minute of the fifth spherical, after which he received caught. Within the meantime, he nonetheless did catch Daniel and prompted some tremors,” mentioned Gareth.

It’s not a lot that Joshua’s punch resistance is gone, however fairly, he by no means had any to start with. The photographs that Dubois repeatedly harm Joshua with on September twenty first would have achieved the identical factor to him if he’d fought him earlier in his profession in 2013 by means of 2017.

Joshua by no means had a great beard, however that weak spot has been hidden as a consequence of his promoter, Eddie Hearn, matching him selectively towards lesser fighters. In the event you take a look at Joshua’s profession resume, it’s stuffed with beatable guys, a lot of them outdated.

Joshua’s greatest profession opponents

– Wladimir Klitsschko: 41-years-old
– Andy Ruiz Jr.
– Kubrat Pulev: 39
– Oleksandr Usyk
– Francis Ngannou: 37
– Robert Helenius: 41
– Alexander Povetkin: 39
– Carlos Takam: 36
– Joseph Parker
– Dillian Whyte
– Otto Wallin

“Didn’t you all stand up out of your seats at that second within the fifth spherical and assume, ‘He’s going to show this round. It’s unbelievable, and he’s going to be this concussed man speaking afterward when he’s gained the combat.’” mentioned Davies, speaking in regards to the temporary second of success AJ had within the fifth spherical earlier than getting his lights turned out.

Gareth goes a bit overboard, speaking about Joshua backing Dubois up within the fifth spherical after catching him with a clear proper hand. Dubois wasn’t harm, and it was apparent that he was taking part in possum, trying to lure Joshua right into a entice.

We noticed Dubois do the identical factor towards Filip Hrgovic final June in Riyadh, and he destroyed him in eight rounds. Dubois took much more onerous proper palms from Hrgovic than he did towards Joshua, and he held up simply nice. The punches that Hrgovic hit Dubois with have been nearly as highly effective because the one AJ tagged him with within the fifth.

“My private view is Joshua ought to sit it out till Fury and Usyk have fought. That’s my view fairly than taking the rapid rematch towards Daniel Dubois. Is it a sensible transfer if he will get type of maimed and mauled one other time in a second combat towards Dubois,” mentioned Gareth.

Joshua would absolutely be mauled in a second combat by Dubois, and it wouldn’t matter one bit if the rematch have been delayed till February or March subsequent 12 months. Dubois is just too highly effective, younger, and durable within the chin division for Joshua, who’s ageing, to defeat him.