Journalist Thomas Hauser is anxious 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 evening in London.
Thomas notes that Joshua can not “stroll by means of hearth” 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 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 prefer to see Joshua obtain an entire neurological examination by Dr. Margaret Goodman to look at his mind well being.
Joshua doubtless wouldn’t retire even when his mind wasn’t given invoice of well being from an MRI examination as a result of he thinks he nonetheless can compete with the most effective, which clearly he can’t. He’s beginning to suspect, although.
If Joshua is crushed within the rematch with Dubois, he’ll doubtless retire after that defeat except His Excellency Turki Alalshikh presents him an incredible sum of money to struggle Tyson Fury. Joshua gained’t say no to a payday of $100 million+ to struggle what’s left of Fury after he’s crushed 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 job of refereeing that struggle. Deliberately or not, I felt he shaded his decision-making in favor of [Joshua],” mentioned 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 towards Dubois. Some followers on social media felt that very same approach 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 obtained hit within the first spherical. He was grappling and holding on,” mentioned Hauser in regards to the referee.
“You may say he needed to maintain on to outlive, which I perceive, however it’s nonetheless towards the principles. 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 some extent from Dubois for a low blow. Even with the referee shading issues in his favor, it was clearly not evening for [Joshua].”
AJ doubtless 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 tip 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 Identical Fighter
“Joshua has reached some extent in his profession, and he’s been there for some time; he doesn’t have the flexibility to stroll by means of hearth and win,” mentioned Hauser.” He did that towards Wladimir Klitschko. He was harm, he got here again, and he gained, however he was a a lot youthful man bodily[2017] and youthful psychologically then.”
It’s apparent that Joshua can not deal with a struggle wherein he has to cope with adversity. AJ’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, had protected him with delicate matchmaking since his second loss to Oleksandr Usyk, however he may not do this final evening when he was thrown in with the damaging predator Dubois, and we noticed the end result.
Hearn created Joshua along with his skillful match-making, choosing many fighters like Wladimir Klitschko, Alexander Povetkin, and Kubrat Pulev once they have been outdated. Joshua would have doubtless misplaced to all these fighters and extra if Hearn had matched him once they have been nonetheless able-bodied and totally functioning,
“I simply don’t like all of the occasions AJ was hit within the head final evening. It was stunning. It jogged my memory of the primary Andy Ruiz struggle,” mentioned Hauser.
Hauser: AJ Making Eddie Hearn “Large Cash”
“Each time AJ fights, Eddie Hearn makes an enormous sum of money,” mentioned Hauser. “There are individuals on AJ’s workforce that make a substantial 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 can be individuals who will say he had an awesome MRI. I’d like 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 laborious 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 kids, 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,” mentioned 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 preventing in his earlier 4 fights after his psychological implosion after his second defeat towards Usyk in 2022.
All you needed to do was have a look at who Hearn had matched Joshua towards within the final two years after which observe AJ’s efficiency towards Usyk to know what would occur when he obtained in there with Dubois.
It was all smoke and mirrors with Joshua and the naive public, who have been too lazy to look at who he’d been preventing 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.
