Daniel Dubois says he plans to knock Anthony Joshua out, make a “stunner” of him, and turn him into an “old man” in the ring this Saturday night at Wembley Stadium in London. IBF heavyweight champion Dubois (21-2, 20 KOs) says he wants to
Joshua (28-3, 25 KOs) is certainly ready to be reduced to old man status. He turns 35 in October, and hasn’t fought a live opponent since his mental breakdown against Oleksandr Usyk in August 2022.
Joshua would obviously prefer to forget that moment as it was one of the lowest points in his 11-year career.
Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, teased him, talking about how he’s back and better than he was when he turned pro in 2013. Hearn talks about AJ as if he’s getting old.
If Hearn really believed this, he wouldn’t have invested the last two years of Joshua’s career, feeding him four cans of tomato in a row to give him a fake career boost.
If Dubois removes him, Hearn will be faced with an impossible task: trying to rehabilitate Joshua’s image in the public eye. Hearn can’t feed Joshua four more steaming piles of stuff to fool the public because the slower ones will finally understand and understand the game.
The brilliant already see that Hearn tried to pull the wool over their eyes, and they were not fooled like the others.
“I’m going to take it from him, turn him into an old man in the ring, and go out there and tear it from him,” Daniel Dubois told DAZN Boxingdiscussing his plans for Anthony Joshua this Saturday.
Joshua is already an older fighter, and the fans would have seen that if Hearn had not removed him from the fight of the world opposition after his second defeat against Usyk in 2022. AJ is 34 years old and 50, and is likely to find out. . Fans see Joshua as Frank Bruno 2.0, and he is about to pass on Saturday.
“I don’t think he’s the same guy,” said Dubois when asked if he believes Joshua has bounced back and just like he always was after four straight wins. “People are easily influenced in this game. He fought an MMA man (Francis Ngannou) and he fought Wallin. His last opponent, it was his second professional fight.”
Physically, Joshua may not be the same fighter he was when he turned pro in 2013. No matter what Hearn says Joshua has returned to his pristine self since turning pro after his controversial Olympic gold medal of 2012, it is no longer that fight. It will never 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,” Dubois said.
If Dubois hits Joshua, the curtains will be drawn to reveal AJ for what he really is. It’s not the fight that Hearn made it look like with the four cans that fed him, and it will be interesting to see all the casuals in shock afterwards. They will collectively say, “What happened to Joshua? He has aged overnight. This should not 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 it was flawed from the beginning.
“He’s his man. He brought his whole company,” Dubois said when told that Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, is already talking about him fighting for the undisputed championship. “I have to break those plans.”
