Anthony Joshua is searching for a brand new opponent for his subsequent struggle after Tyson Fury introduced his retirement from the game final month.
The heavyweight titans appeared destined to lastly sq. off this 12 months.
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Saudi boxing chief Turki Alalshikh was within the strategy of getting ready a profitable two-fight provide for the long-awaited all-British showdown.
Nevertheless, these plans have now been placed on maintain following Fury’s bombshell announcement.
Joshua’s crew have now shifted their consideration to different avenues, with AJ’s promoter Eddie Hearn setting his sights on a world title struggle for his shopper.
“Proper now as a result of Tyson Fury is retired, so put him to the aspect, the primary alternative for AJ is to struggle for the world heavyweight title,” Hearn advised BetFred.
“That is 99 per cent of what he needs to do and if that is Daniel Dubois, no drawback. If that is Joseph Parker, no drawback.
“If AJ turns round and says that is what he is doing, then it is performed.
“It is not me saying he cannot struggle Daniel Dubois. Some folks say he should not have fought Oleksandr Usyk. What are you speaking about?
“It is your job, he is the obligatory, what do you need to do?
“Give your belt up and have all that criticism that you simply ducked Usyk and also you vacated your belt to do it?”
Joshua, 35, rebounded effectively from his back-to-back losses to Oleksandr Usyk in 2020 and 2021 by profitable his subsequent 4 fights.
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Nevertheless, his profitable streak got here to a merciless, unforgiving finish final September when he was flattened by Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium.
The devastating defeat prompted a number of members of the boxing fraternity to name for his retirement.
However Hearn performed down the prospect of AJ hanging up his gloves simply but.
“Not but, however there’ll come the time,” Hearn added.
“These sorts of conversations actually come from behind the scenes from how someone is performing in camp.
“In camp, if you have not received it anymore, it’s going to be obvious. The accidents will worsen, you will get damage in sparring in opposition to someone you should not be getting damage in opposition to.
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“You are not sharp and when that second comes, that is when the crew will say ‘AJ’s not wanting good ‘ and that is the second when I’ll in all probability have a dialog with him.
“For the Daniel Dubois struggle, the camp was nice.
“He was tremendous sharp and we had been actually assured going into that struggle, coming off 4 good wins, two actually good wins, and we thought he would win.
“We knew how harmful the struggle was, so he comes out, has a horrible begin, by no means actually recovers, comes again into the struggle a bit of bit and will get chinned. No drawback.
“If camp had gone actually poorly and we had been not sure, I feel that dialog could have been introduced ahead.”
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