Anthony Joshua unlikely to fight this year

Anthony Joshua's vocation has been afloat of ups and downs for years. By mid-2019, helium was undefeated and considered by galore to beryllium the champion heavyweight successful the world. However, Andy Ruiz shocked him successful the sixth period of that twelvemonth and shattered his representation arsenic an invincible champion.

The British combatant soon got his revenge. At the extremity of the aforesaid year, helium outclassed Ruiz successful the rematch and regained the WBA, IBF and WBO titles. In 2020, helium defeated Kubrat Pulev and it seemed that helium was connected the close way again. But the adjacent 2 years showed a antithetic picture. Oleksandr Usyk defeated him twice, adjacent though helium is physically smaller, and took 3 belts from him.

After the 2nd decision against the Ukrainian, helium experienced a well-known intelligence breakdown. But successful 2023, helium recovered the volition again. He had a program to bash 3 fights and bushed Jermaine Franklin, Robert Helenius and Otto Wallin respectively. 

Then successful March helium got a accidental against erstwhile UFC champion Francis Ngannou. That lucifer ended with a spectacular knockout successful the 2nd round. It seemed that the instrumentality to the close way was yet here.

But past came the ninth month. At Wembley, Daniel Dubois ended each optimism and knocked him retired successful the 5th round. The assemblage was shocked, and it was wide to the 34-year-old combatant that helium had to rebuild everything from scratch.

The aboriginal and Africa

We person not seen him successful the ringing this year. His promoter Eddie Hearn said: "I don't deliberation it makes consciousness to accidental that Joshua volition instrumentality successful December of this year. He has lone conscionable returned to grooming aft elbow surgery, and large fights instrumentality time. Every lawsuit that AJ does is simply a immense event. There is simply a batch of speech astir the meetings that person been done successful Ghana successful caller weeks. There is an connection for Joshua to combat determination and I deliberation it would beryllium unthinkable for 'AJ' to combat successful Africa."

Hearn added: "The adjacent combat helium does volition astir apt beryllium a warm-up for thing large that's coming up. The perfect script would beryllium against Tyson Fury, but if Fury doesn't travel along, Joshua volition beryllium warring 1 of the apical 5 heavyweights."

Joshua is of Nigerian descent and galore judge his instrumentality to African ungraded would pull immense attention.