Journalist Thomas Hauser is anxious about Anthony Joshua’s brain health after watching him get destroyed by IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois by a fifth round knockout last Saturday night in London.
Thomas notes that Joshua can now not “walk through fire” at this point in his profession, and he feels that continuing to fight is putting his health in danger. Joshua, 34, has already created generational wealth for his family.
Hauser feels the previous two-time heavyweight champion Joshua now not has the identical machinery that he possessed within the zenith of his profession when he rose off the canvas to defeat Wladimir Klitschko. He says he’d wish to see Joshua receive a whole neurological exam by Dr. Margaret Goodman to look at his brain health.
Joshua likely wouldn’t retire even when his brain wasn’t given an excellent bill of health from an MRI exam because he thinks he still can compete with one of the best, which obviously he can’t. He’s beginning to suspect, though.
If Joshua is crushed within the rematch with Dubois, he’ll likely retire after that defeat unless His Excellency Turki Alalshikh offers him an incredible sum of money to fight Tyson Fury. Joshua won’t say no to a payday of $100 million+ to fight what’s left of Fury after he’s beaten a second time by Oleksandr Usyk on December twenty first.
Did the Referee Help Joshua?
“I felt that the referee, Marcus McDonnell, didn’t do an excellent job of refereeing that fight. Intentionally or not, I felt he shaded his decision-making in favor of [Joshua],” said Thomas Houser to Secondsout, talking in regards to the referee who worked the Anthony Joshua vs. Daniel Dubois fight last Saturday.
Hauser isn’t the just one who felt that the referee helped Joshua to survive against Dubois. Some fans on social media felt that very same way and believed that Joshua would have been knocked out much sooner without the referee.
“He never once warned him for holding, which AJ was doing throughout the fight once he got hit in the primary round. He was grappling and holding on,” said Hauser in regards to the referee.
“You possibly can say he needed to hold on to survive, which I understand, but it surely’s still against the foundations. However the referee never even warned him for that, after which without even any previous warning in any respect, he took away a degree from Dubois for a low blow. Even with the referee shading things in his favor, it was obviously not an excellent night for [Joshua].”
AJ likely would have been finished off by Dubois within the second round if the referee had addressed his clinching because, without that, he would have been bombarded out of existence. The tip would have come quickly for Joshua, which could have been good for him. He wouldn’t have needed to take all of the punishment he absorbed in rounds three, 4, and five.
Joshua Not The Same Fighter
“Joshua has reached a degree in his profession, and he’s been there for some time; he doesn’t have the flexibility to walk through fire and win,” said Hauser.” He did that against Wladimir Klitschko. He was hurt, he got here back, and he won, but he was a much younger man physically[2017] and younger psychologically then.”
It’s obvious that Joshua can now not handle a fight by which he has to cope with adversity. AJ’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, had protected him with soft matchmaking since his second loss to Oleksandr Usyk, but he could now not do this last night when he was thrown in with the harmful predator Dubois, and we saw the result.
Hearn created Joshua along with his skillful match-making, choosing many fighters like Wladimir Klitschko, Alexander Povetkin, and Kubrat Pulev once they were old. Joshua would have likely lost to all those fighters and more if Hearn had matched him once they were still able-bodied and fully functioning,
“I just don’t like all of the times AJ was hit in the pinnacle last night. It was shocking. It jogged my memory of the primary Andy Ruiz fight,” said Hauser.
Hauser: AJ Making Eddie Hearn “Massive Money”
“Each time AJ fights, Eddie Hearn makes a large sum of money,” said Hauser. “There are people on AJ’s team that make an amazing deal of cash each time he fights. I don’t know what his physical condition is. I’ve never seen an MRI from AJ. I’m sure there will likely be individuals who will say he had an amazing MRI. I’d like it if he did a full neurological makeup with someone like Margaret Goodman.
“I used to be troubled by seeing how he responded after getting hit hard by Dubois for the primary time. I can just look on and cringe each time I see Anthony Joshua get hit in the pinnacle. The Joshua that climbed off the canvas to beat Wladimir Klitschko doesn’t exist anymore. He doesn’t have the identical machinery anymore.
“I overestimated AJ, and I underestimated Dubois. I hope AJ keeps his eye on the underside line, and I’m not talking about funds because I assume he has a lot money now, generational wealth for him, his children, and his grandchildren someday. He has all that, and the underside line is his health. Fighters don’t think the worst could occur to them, but sometimes it does,” said Hauser.
For anyone who assumed that Joshua would beat Dubois, they didn’t take a tough take a look at the opposition that he’d been fighting in his previous 4 fights after his mental implosion after his second defeat against Usyk in 2022.
All you needed to do was take a look at who Hearn had matched Joshua against within the last two years after which observe AJ’s performance against Usyk to know what would occur when he got in there with Dubois.
It was all smoke and mirrors with Joshua and the naive public, who were too lazy to look at who he’d been fighting closely. Hearn pulled the wool over the eyes of the sheep-like by making a mirage, making them think Joshua had been fully refurbished after beating 4 tomato cans. It was all trickery by the master.
