Steve Bunce believes special boxers will have to be hand-picked for Anthony Joshua. Photo: PA Photos
As expected, speculation ended last week when Olympic super-heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua made a choice to no longer fight as an amateur and turned professional.
It means, instead of battling his way through the hard fights he was having at the World Championships in Azerbaijan and the London Olympics – fights he was winning by a point or losing by a point – he’ll now get easy fights.
He will be in fights where he will get to whack people on the chin and watch them fall over. It will be like magic.
This is the mad thing that makes boxing a unique sport: The easier the victory, the more criticism that he will get!
Realistically, Joshua would be better off winning narrowly on points over a hard, six round fight than just knocking people out. However, if that happened people would moan that he lacks power.
The fact remains that Joshua isn’t going to face anybody who will pose a risk to the multi-million pound investment in his talents.
Like all good heavyweights who turn pro, Joshua will need protecting from his own ability. He is too good for almost all of the heavyweights in Britain over three rounds. But not those who go beyond three rounds and have something left in the tank and they will have to be avoided. – ESPN
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