Anthony Joshua lost his heavyweight titles as he was outpointed by someone named Aleksander Usiyk.
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I watched it. He's so overrated imo. He was lost for ideas. He was taller, had better reach, he was younger, and already the champ. If he can't make those factors work for him, well, he's only himself to blame.
When that fat guy Ruiz beat him, that was bad enough, but this is on a similar level.
Joshua is calling for a rematch and there is probably such a clause in their contract so we shall see if he can avenge his loss as he did against Ruiz.
I did not see the fight,I'll catch it at some point.
Those rematch clauses are BS. You fight a guy, you win, you move on to better fighters to further test yourself, and of course more lucrative purses. You lose, and it's back to the drawing board to try and earn a crack at the title further down the road.
An overwhelming favourite who's already the champion, such as Joshua was, shouldn't be agreeing to rematches. Get the job done and move on. Rematches are potential banana skins for any champion because next time they fight, the other guy as sussed your style out and could inflict a damaging loss.
So, that said, I reckon Joshua agreed to a possible rematch just in case he lost!!!! What champion thinks like that? And that's exactly what he did with Ruiz too. It's as if Joshua has no confidence in his own ability to put a lesser opponent to bed so he has his guys draw up rematch plans.
I wanted Joshua to win on Saturday night but if this rematch happens I hope Usyk batters him again.
Good points,agreed and not that I would have bought it but I wasn't even aware that the fight was scheduled to take place on Saturday,the results came over my news feed afterwords.I am not a big fan of Joshua but I would like for him beat and get past Usiyk as I would like to see how he does against either Tyson or Wilder.
Which Tyson are you referring to, old fella Mike, or Fury, lol? Either way, they'd both stuff him. But then again it wouldn't bother Joshua because his guys would have drawn up a pre fight rematch anyway! Lol.
Yes Tyson Fury,the one who is set to fight Wilder next month....and in other boxing news Floyd Mayweather wants to fight Oscar De La Hoya again......for a one hundred million dollar purse.
Joshua would probably get beat by both he would have a better chance with Wilder.
