AJ next opponent? times ticking away now...

[Andrew]

David Price, Jarell Miller or Duhaupas is a good shout in fact he would be AJs best opponent to date.

Be hilarious if it's Price

I'm confused as to why Price keeps getting mentioned? He's about as far from being contender as is possible. That guy he fought on Saturday looked like they'd just dragged him out of the pub.

You could whck Danny Williams in, it'd be about as credible.[/quote
I agree with everything you're saying. But he is sneaking into sports page and sky sports are talking about him more.

It would be typical Eddie justifying it

" He only lost to people who failed drug tests so he is really unbeaten "

[Supremo]

Fights should be PPV not fighters. If they put Joshua on PPV against some 2nd rate fighter like Dauphos or Price then there is no way it can be PPV.

And the answer is ,,,,,, Shhh,, don't tell anyone .... don't buy it

I don't. I refused to buy the Breazale fight. Unfortunately enough mugs did- which is why he will now probably try and mug the public off again by offering up similar dross.

[Rob3_142]

I think the likes of Parker and Klitchko can take the fights pretty late because they're both coming off the back of camps, and AJ's camp will be leading up to the 26th November date anyway. It has to be one of the two. Either one is a massive test for AJ. Massive step up from his previous opposition.

They'll wait to see what happens with Fury's belts (now he's threatened to quit - he'll definitely be stripped), then see who the sanctioning bodies want who to fight who.

[Asterix]

I think the likes of Parker and Klitchko can take the fights pretty late because they're both coming off the back of camps, and AJ's camp will be leading up to the 26th November date anyway. It has to be one of the two. Either one is a massive test for AJ. Massive step up from his previous opposition.

They'll wait to see what happens with Fury's belts (now he's threatened to quit - he'll definitely be stripped), then see who the sanctioning bodies want who to fight who.

It's sounding more and more like it will be Price though.

[Frazier71]

It can't and won't be Price. AJ wouldn't accept a farce like that.

[Rob3_142]

It can't and won't be Price. AJ wouldn't accept a farce like that.

What does he do if Klitchko goes down the WBA route and Parker goes down the WBO route? 8 weeks notice is going to be too short for someone to step in the ring with Joshua. It would have to be someone who is at least coming off the back of a camp or is active, and how many are there in the IBF top 15?

[ILikeBeer]

If it's Price, that's almost as bad as the time that Haye fought Audley and it was passed off as a legitimate World Championship fight. Anybody who had ever watched boxing could tell you beforehand there was no way Audley was winning that.

Saying that, people were stupid enough to pay for it.

[Frazier71]

It can't and won't be Price. AJ wouldn't accept a farce like that.

What does he do if Klitchko goes down the WBA route and Parker goes down the WBO route? 8 weeks notice is going to be too short for someone to step in the ring with Joshua. It would have to be someone who is at least coming off the back of a camp or is active, and how many are there in the IBF top 15?

Any of the other IBF guys. Because we're worried it's going to be Price, some fighters we'd have been disappointed by in September would come as a big relief now!

[Frazier71]

I've got 12 possible opponents, are any of these injured/already booked?

Fury
Wilder
Klitschko

1. Joseph Parker
2. Kubrat Pulev
3. David Haye Not this year
4. Johan Duhaupas
5. Andy Ruiz
6. Carlos Takam
7. Vyacheslav Glazkov Injured
8. Eric Molina
9. Jarrell Miller
10. Charles Martin Literally shot
11. Derek Chisora
12. David Price
13. Hughie Fury
14. Bermane Stiverne
15. Dominic Breazeale Previous opponent

[Rob3_142]

I've got 12 possible opponents, are any of these injured/already booked?

Fury
Wilder
Klitschko

1. Joseph Parker
2. Kubrat Pulev
3. David Haye Not this year
4. Johan Duhaupas
5. Andy Ruiz
6. Carlos Takam
7. Vyacheslav Glazkov Injured
8. Eric Molina
9. Jarrell Miller
10. Charles Martin Literally shot
11. Derek Chisora
12. David Price
13. Hughie Fury
14. Bermane Stiverne
15. Dominic Breazeale Previous opponent

Isn't there a more updated list? Thought Stiverne has been dropped out and Parker's stable mate added. I can't load up the IBF list at work - for some odd reason that website is blocked. But from that list;

1. Joseph Parker - May contest IBO
2. Kubrat Pulev - Been offered the fight three times and declined
3. David Haye - Inactive
4. Johan Duhaupas
5. Andy Ruiz - May contest IBO
6. Carlos Takam
7. Vyacheslav Glazkov - A broken man
8. Eric Molina
9. Jarrell Miller
10. Charles Martin - Shot and recent opponent
11. Derek Chisora
12. David Price
13. Hughie Fury - Already offered fight also - plus drug scandal
14. Bermane Stiverne - Offered fight, may take WBC mandatory fight instead
15. Dominic Breazeale - Recent opponent

So that leaves Duhaupas, Takam, Molina, Miller, Chisora, or Price. But even then, Dahaupas (beat Helenius in April), Takam (beaten by Parker in May), and Molina (beat Adamek in April) are pretty inactive. So the only people who are active are Chisora (but also being lined up with Whyte) and Price which nobody seems to wanna see. Last option is Miller? Could be...

[Matchfixer]

We're also waiting for Haye to announce a fight.

Is Haye v Joshua really out of the question ?, particularly as Klitschko is also being touted.

[Wales]

New IBF rankings released today


1Joseph Parker
2Kubrat Pulev
3David Haye
4Johan Duhaupas
5Andy Ruiz
6Carlos Takam
7Vyacheslav Glazkov
8Eric Molina
9Jarrell Miller
10Derek Chisora
11Charles Martin
12David Price
13Izuagbe Ugonoh
14Hugie Fury
15Erkan Teper

Teper and Ugonoh making an appearance.....


Teper?

[Spiker]

We're also waiting for Haye to announce a fight.

Is Haye v Joshua really out of the question ?, particularly as Klitschko is also being touted.

I hope it is Haye as I would pick Haye to beat him very good fight

[Andrew]

We're also waiting for Haye to announce a fight.

Is Haye v Joshua really out of the question ?, particularly as Klitschko is also being touted.

Would have been done by now.

Plus it's a stadium fight.

[crusader]

Teper is scheduled to fight Hammer on October 15th for a WBO trinket....if he suddenly pulls out of that it woukd be a good sign it's him.

[mickey1975]

The glaring question should be, why is Price in the top 15 at all?

[ILikeBeer]

We're also waiting for Haye to announce a fight.

Is Haye v Joshua really out of the question ?, particularly as Klitschko is also being touted.

Yes, it is out of the question.

Bear in mind Hughie Fury and David Price are also being touted.

I wouldn't get carried away with the quality

[sweetscience]

who is the easiest ?

there in lies the answer

[Nightmare Roy]

We're also waiting for Haye to announce a fight.

Is Haye v Joshua really out of the question ?, particularly as Klitschko is also being touted.

I hope it is Haye as I would pick Haye to beat him very good fight

No chance it's Haye, that fight will happen next year, will be promoted to death and happen in a big out door stadium. I think the only thing we can guarantee about his next opponent is that he'll be dog shite otherwise he would have been announced by now.

[Andrew]

The glaring question should be, why is Price in the top 15 at all?

He's world class now mate

[nitro5912]

If all the talk is right, dec 10 could be a massive night of boxing.

One rumour has AJ v Wlad on that night in London, another has bernd boente has a stadium booked in Germany for that night, also we have haye fighting that night and parker has talked about that night too

Could it be setting things up. AJ v Wlad and haye v parker to setup potentially AJ v Hate or Wlad v hate next summer

[Rob3_142]

I'm starting to feel a little concerned about what is developing in regards to Joshua's next fight. As far as the sanctioning bodies go, most of them rule that if a title becomes available, the first and second ranked fighters would fight for it. So first, Joshua is not ranked in any of the abc rankings, because he is IBF champion, and secondly they cannot unify the belts as both challengers need to possess a world title, with Joshua owning the IBF and the others being vacant.

So as far as I'm concerned, Joshua would only fight Klitchko if they were to fight for the IBF belt, which I think we all agree that Klitchko is after his old belts (so he's ranked No1 with WBO and WBA), and he could not be a IBF contender as he is not inside the top 15.

I think Joshua's best bet at the moment is Parker either late November or early December, as they're already mandated to meet. Failing that I'd personally just prefer to see him fight in the New Year.

[Frazier71]

It'd be very disrespectful to the north to move AJ from Manchester to the 02 after promising it would be here. Our last HW title fight was Haye-Harrison!

[Spiker]

It'd be very disrespectful to the north to move AJ from Manchester to the 02 after promising it would be here. Our last HW title fight was Haye-Harrison!

Despite what you think great Britain does not revolve around manchester

[Frazier71]

I don't think that at all.

All I'm saying is that a couple of weeks ago we had two heavyweight world title fights on and now it seems like we're on the verge of having none. It's sickening.