Daniel Dubois says he plans to knock out Anthony Joshua, make a “fool” of him, and transform him into an “old man” in the ring this Saturday night at Wembley Stadium in London. The IBF heavyweight champion Dubois (21-2, 20 KOs) states that he wants
Joshua (28-3, 25 KOs) is certainly ready to be reduced to old-man status. He turns 35 in October, and he hasn’t fought a live opponent since his mental breakdown against Oleksandr Usyk in August 2022.
Joshua would obviously prefer to forget that moment because it was one of the lowest points in his 11-year career.
Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, has gassed him up, talking about how he’s back and better than he was when he first turned professional in 2013. Hearn speaks about AJ as if he’s aged backward.
If Hearn truly believed that, he wouldn’t have invested the last two years of Joshua’s career, feeding him four consecutive tomato cans to give him a fake career boost.
If Dubois knocks him out, Hearn will be confronted with an impossible task: trying to rehabilitate Joshua’s image in the public’s eyes. Hearn can’t feed Joshua another four steaming piles of stuff to fool the public because the slower ones will finally catch on and understand the game.
The bright ones already see that Hearn has been trying to pull the wool over their eyes, and they’ve not been duped like the others.
“I’ve got to take it from him, turn him into an old man in the ring, and go out there and rip it from him,” said Daniel Dubois to DAZN Boxing, discussing his plans for Anthony Joshua this Saturday.
Joshua is already an older fighter, and fans would have seen that if Hearn hadn’t pulled him back from fighting world-class opposition after his second defeat against Usyk in 2022. AJ is 34 going on 50, and he’s likely to get found out. Fans view Joshua as Frank Bruno 2.0, and he’s about to step in it on Saturday.
“I don’t think he’s the same guy,” said Dubois when asked if he believes Joshua has bounced back and just as good as he ever was after four consecutive wins. “People are easily swayed in this game. He fought an MMA guy [Francis Ngannou], and he fought Wallin. His last opponent, that was his second professional fight.”
Physically, Joshua can’t be the same fighter that turned pro in 2013. No matter what Hearn says about Joshua being back to his pristine self from when he turned professional after his controversial gold medal in the 2012 Olympics, he’s not that fighter anymore. He never will be again. Joshua is like a dying star that has exhausted its hydrogen fuel and is ready to collapse.
“I aim to knock him out. I want to make a fool out of him by knocking him out,” said Dubois.
If Dubois knocks Joshua out, the curtains will be pulled back to reveal AJ for what he really is. He’s not the fighter that Hearn made him look with the four cans that he fed him, and it’s going to be interesting to see all the casuals in shock afterward. They’ll collectively say, ‘What happened to Joshua? He got old overnight. This shouldn’t have happened.’
Joshua was never as good as boxing fans thought he was, and all you have to do is look at his fights against Wladimir Klitschko, Alexander Povetkin, Andy Ruiz Jr., and Dillian Whyte to see that he was flawed from the get-go.
“That’s his man. He’s carried his whole company,” said Dubois when told that Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, is already talking about him fighting for the undisputed championship. “I’ve got to break those plans.”
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