JAKARTA – Edy Hearn’s promoter gave a written message to Daniel Dubois that Anthony Joshua was afraid.
The statement comes after Hearn watched Joshua train. He revealed the 34-year-old’s punch was like a car crashing into a wall at 100mph or 160km per hour.
Eddie Hearn added that Joshua is back to his best form and could be unbeaten under his new coaching team.
“When he fully understood the game plan and when he really trained, I think he wasn’t beaten. That’s what we feel at the moment,” Hearn told Sky Sports.
“With all due respect to Dubois, who is a dangerous person, he made a mistake. Joshua is not a difficult fighter to train.”
“What he has is very strong in boxing. I think the momentum from AJ’s win with the style will take him to 2025, which could be funny to be a defining moment in his career,” Hearn said again.
Not only Hearn, former world super middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders was also caught watching him training.
“I recently saw AJ training up close at the Ben Davison camp. I popped in every now and then to see him.”
“I saw AJ. I think he has a new life. He seemed to be born again, he believed it.”
“I think he’ll be a very, very dangerous opponent for everybody in the heavyweight division.”
“Seeing him hit his right hand from the near was scary. His force was scary like a car going 100mph into the wall. He hit the blinker really hard,” Saunders told BoxNation.
Saunders, who also praised Dubois’ rise under fighter Don Charles, saw no way the fight could last long.
In other words, Saunders tried to look objectively at the training of both boxers. He emphasized that the fight would not go to the final round, that is, there was a knockout in the middle of the road.
“Someone will be eliminated. It certainly won’t last long, someone will be eliminated.”
Joshua will challenge Dubois for his IBF title on September 21, 2024 at Wembley in his fourth fight against trainer Ben Davison.
He is coming off two raw KO victories, over Otto Wallin and former UFC champion Francis Ngannou, in March 2024.
If he wins against Dubois, Joshua will probably have the biggest fight against Tyson Fury, the duel that boxing fans around the world have been waiting for.
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