Is Anthony Joshua the next Frank Bruno?

[funso banjo baby]

surely his chances of staying amateur are 0

[clubberlang]

While David Price is an exciting fighter & even now a threat due to his power, I can’t see him making it. Flattening domestic level opposition is all fine and good but as soon as a real puncher lands one on his whiskers it will be nighty, night. If you’re fragile as an amateur you are going to come unstuck as a pro, perhaps he can become the new Vlad but I can’t see it.

[Deserter]

If you’re fragile as an amateur you are going to come unstuck as a pro.

Didn't Larry Holmes get stopped a few times in the ams?

[Wales]

If you’re fragile as an amateur you are going to come unstuck as a pro.

Didn't Larry Holmes get stopped a few times in the ams?

Wouldnt that be in the days before headguards?

[Deserter]

If you’re fragile as an amateur you are going to come unstuck as a pro.

Didn't Larry Holmes get stopped a few times in the ams?

Wouldnt that be in the days before headguards?

Yes, but I was using it to illustrate the dangers of a 'catch-all' statement.

[oliverfennell]

Could this be the guy to lift British heavyweight boxing. I think even at this early stage people are going to compare him to Frank Bruno and love the guy. Never heard of him before but this guy is going to generate public interest when he turns pro.

This guy will not be the next 'fraudley'

Maybe he will.

Not in terms of his attributes but in terms of how the public will take to him. We'll have football writers doing opinion columns where they hilariously refer to his opponents by their day jobs and write derisively about his matchmaking if he isn't fighting a Klitschko by his 5th contest, and the general public will go along with it, asking why he isn't fighting champions if he's a gold medallist.

[oliverfennell]

David Price? The 30 year old who has only managed 13 fights since the last Olympics and hasn't even managed to fight a live body in all that time?! Mike Tyson had 15 fights in his first year. In his second year live bodies like Ferguson and Tillis were hitting him back, hard.

I like and rate Price but there's a lot of truth in what you say. Tyson Fury gets stick for his competition but he's had more fights and beaten better opposition than Price, and at a younger age. It's just the Boxrec penchant to bitch about the famous boxer and claim the less-known one is superior despite having inferior achievements. See Khan-Thaxton, Khan-Murray, Hatton-Witter, etc.

Price is taking a big step up against a passive, semi-retired 40 year old Audley Harrison FFS. Price is about as likely to capture the public imagination as Tyson Fury is to fight an opponent not in his 40s.

How many opponents in their 40s has Fury faced?

[yiddo14]

Joshua seems intent on staying around for the worlds next year which could be a good thing.

I think he performed better last year in the worlds than he did in the Olympics this year. Maybe the pressure of a home games made him a touch tentative.

One thing is for sure, he won't be the next Audley. Joshua has shown on a few occasions now that if he needs to bring the fight he will do. Cammarelle twice and don't forget the final of last years worlds which was a cracker, he threw everything including the kitchen sink at his opponent in that fight.

In an ideal world he stays am until next year, stops Savon ( which he is more than capable of ) and becomes world champ before turning over.

[gobbles]

Price is taking a big step up against a passive, semi-retired 40 year old Audley Harrison FFS. Price is about as likely to capture the public imagination as Tyson Fury is to fight an opponent not in his 40s.

How many opponents in their 40s has Fury faced?

Board rules state you don't have to have any basis in fact to slag off a boxer - it's the Amir Khan clause

[Datsue]

Price is taking a big step up against a passive, semi-retired 40 year old Audley Harrison FFS. Price is about as likely to capture the public imagination as Tyson Fury is to fight an opponent not in his 40s.

How many opponents in their 40s has Fury faced?

Board rules state you don't have to have any basis in fact to slag off a boxer - it's the Amir Khan clause

Note the location...

Wasn't there someone the other day blaming Khan for Peterson failing the dope test?

[loaded_gloves]

And as for Ferguson hitting Tyson back "hard" you may want to watch that fight again he barely threw a punch and was hanging on for dear life.

In the early going Ferguson hits Tyson with left hooks and uppercuts. Jim Lampley notes that, for the first time, an opponent is hitting Tyson back and giving him a challenge.

Tyson told Al Bernstein in an interview, and I quote, "no one hit me harder than Jesse Ferguson". Bernstein refers to this again during the broadcast of Jesse Ferguson-Bruce Seldon in 1992.

But okay, I'll go with your word, unknown man posting on the internet, over the fight that was captured on tape, the remarks of Jim Lampley who was ringside calling it, and the first hand account of Mike Tyson.

[Hagler2002]

And as for Ferguson hitting Tyson back "hard" you may want to watch that fight again he barely threw a punch and was hanging on for dear life.

In the early going Ferguson hits Tyson with left hooks and uppercuts. Jim Lampley notes that, for the first time, an opponent is hitting Tyson back and giving him a challenge.

Tyson told Al Bernstein in an interview, and I quote, "no one hit me harder than Jesse Ferguson". Bernstein refers to this again during the broadcast of Jesse Ferguson-Bruce Seldon in 1992.

But okay, I'll go with your word, unknown man posting on the internet, over the fight that was captured on tape, the remarks of Jim Lampley who was ringside calling it, and the first hand account of Mike Tyson.

Opinions are like arseholes, everybody has one! And you seem to have more than anybody else

[tonyevs]

In an ideal world he stays am until next year, stops Savon ( which he is more than capable of ) and becomes world champ before turning over.

I not really sure If your serious with the stopping Savon statement?

If you are serious ..

I would suggest you watch their fight again. Savon Cotilla totally schooled Joshua.
Sure Joshua was the much bigger man .. but Cotilla was superb.

[gobbles]

In an ideal world he stays am until next year, stops Savon ( which he is more than capable of ) and becomes world champ before turning over.

I not really sure If your serious with the stopping Savon statement?

If you are serious ..

I would suggest you watch their fight again. Savon Cotilla totally schooled Joshua.
Sure Joshua was the much bigger man .. but Cotilla was superb.

Medzhidov stopped Savon at the worlds and a Ukrainian beat him out of sight at the previous one. Be wary of reading too much into any one fight in the ams. Joshua won't have faced anyone like him before. If they met again, Joshua is unlikely to go chasing after him as he did.

[yiddo14]

Exactly gobbles.

[ILikeBeer]

Opinions are like arseholes, everybody has one! And you seem to have more than anybody else

He has more arseholes than everybody else? The man needs to see a doctor.

[Bronxbull666]

Lets not forget, people originally loves Audley. He packed the arena for his debut and left it with great applause. Things started to go wrong when he fought with the fro against Dereck McAffertey.

Joshua certainly resembles Bruno in terms of physique and approach to the fight. He doesn't have the Bruno jab, but he doesn't "fence" like Audley.

Which Audley are you on about? He got booed out the arena and during the fight on his debut against little Mike Middleton. Harrison walked to the ring like it was a world title fight whilst a cabbage patch doll was waiting to fight him in the ring. I think a lot of people were to boo Harrison, a bit of a pantomime for men.

[ILikeBeer]

Lets not forget, people originally loves Audley. He packed the arena for his debut and left it with great applause. Things started to go wrong when he fought with the fro against Dereck McAffertey.

Joshua certainly resembles Bruno in terms of physique and approach to the fight. He doesn't have the Bruno jab, but he doesn't "fence" like Audley.

Which Audley are you on about? He got booed out the arena and during the fight on his debut against little Mike Middleton. Harrison walked to the ring like it was a world title fight whilst a cabbage patch doll was waiting to fight him in the ring. I think a lot of people were to boo Harrison, a bit of a pantomime for men.[/quote]

Do men not go to pantomimes?

[Alexey Uralets]

HEY BRITTS - MAY BE JOSHUA IS DA NEXT LENNOX LEWIS HUH???

[The 1bangkid]

David Price? The 30 year old who has only managed 13 fights since the last Olympics and hasn't even managed to fight a live body in all that time?! Mike Tyson had 15 fights in his first year. In his second year live bodies like Ferguson and Tillis were hitting him back, hard.

Price is taking a big step up against a passive, semi-retired 40 year old Audley Harrison FFS. Price is about as likely to capture the public imagination as Tyson Fury is to fight an opponent not in his 40s.