Anthony Joshua vs. Jarrell Miller - June 1, 2019

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DAZN officially announced Wednesday morning that Anthony Joshua will make his debut on American soil against Jarrell Miller on June 1 at Madison Square Garden. The unbeaten British superstar will defend his IBF, IBO, WBA and WBO heavyweight titles against Brooklyn’s Miller in a main event DAZN will stream live from “The Mecca of Boxing” in New York.

The 29-year-old Joshua has fought exclusively in the United Kingdom since the 2012 Olympic gold medalist turned pro five years ago. He has long expressed a desire to fight in the United States, where his rival, WBC champ Deontay Wilder, resides.

“June 1st, I am heading to ‘The Big Apple’ and I plan to embrace the culture and leave with an appetite for more,” Joshua said in a press release issued by DAZN. “I will be fighting Jarrell Miller at the legendary Madison Square Garden. It has been an honor and a blessing to fight at some of the best venues in the world at home, in the UK, not least Wembley Stadium. But the time has come to head across the Atlantic and defend my heavyweight titles in the USA. I am looking forward to taking on another challenge with a good boxer and a brilliant talker. It will be an exciting fight. I will leave nothing to chance and plan on dismantling Miller in style to make my mark.”

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[oogiebe]

AJ in five. Miller is going to have a 'come to Jesus meeting' when he finally understands what it's like to be in the ring with a decent opponent, or in this case, the very best current HW in the world. He is ill-prepared for this drastic of a level-up.

[joshj909]

The poll shouldn't even include Miller winning. 'Which round does AJ win?'

Are we going to see Joyce v Bryan for the WBA interim regular belt then?

[gilgamesh]

Miller might give Joshua a few slight issues in the first few rounds because he can actually fight, but ultimately he's too fat, and undisciplined to be able to keep up a consistent enough pace to win the Heavyweight Championship of the world. I think he'll have his moments. Maybe win a round or two, but ultimately get stopped somewhere between Round 8 and 10. I figure Joshua will be cautious in the opening rounds while Miller is fresh, and will open up more and more as the fight goes on, and he wears him down more and more with body punches, and just the pace of the action itself.

[oogiebe]

Miller might give Joshua a few slight issues in the first few rounds because he can actually fight, but ultimately he's too fat, and undisciplined to be able to keep up a consistent enough pace to win the Heavyweight Championship of the world. I think he'll have his moments. Maybe win a round or two, but ultimately get stopped somewhere between Round 8 and 10. I figure Joshua will be cautious in the opening rounds while Miller is fresh, and will open up more and more as the fight goes on, and he wears him down more and more with body punches, and just the pace of the action itself.

Miller is by far NOT the best opponent AJ's been in with and AJ is by a huge margin the best Miller has faced. I don't see the fight going that long, nor do I see Miller capable of winning more than maybe one of the first three rounds, if that. Miller will get stung by AJ's jab early on and realize he's a dead man walking. IMHO. I'd even bet Miller is overcautious from the opening, with AJ walking him down. Big mouths usually cower when faced with adversity.

[verlichte]

If Miller has a decent chin, he could be a tricky opponent for AJ, which may result in Joshua resorting to boxing his way to a decision victory, as per the Joseph Parker bout.

In reality though, the American is limited. He isn’t such a big puncher and his work-rate shouldn’t pose any problems for the Brit either.

I envisage a stoppage victory for Joshua between rounds five to seven. Alternatively, if ‘Big Baby’ has decent whiskers, the American will likely lose by a 120-108 margin on the judges’ scorecards.

This won’t be a competitive fight, unless AJ gets careless and runs out of gas trying to force a premature stoppage.

[Thomastearns]

Miller will be 'dismantled' systematically. The more impressive the job AJ does the better.

I'd like to see it go past 3 rounds, with AJ putting on a great show for the worldwide audience. The ending needs to be spectacular - Tyson style. Big moment for Joshua and the future of boxing.

[oogiebe]

Miller will be in the box from the opening bell. He will NOT like the feeling of being outpunched. He'll be beaten into submission. He has never worked moving backwards; off his back foot. His style will provide AJ many early opportunities to land hard shots. The more I think about this fight the more I think it'll be short work for AJ. Miller will be stopped while absorbing punishment on the ropes or in the corner, if his chin is any good, or a clean KO if his chin is no better than average.

[gilgamesh]

Miller might give Joshua a few slight issues in the first few rounds because he can actually fight, but ultimately he's too fat, and undisciplined to be able to keep up a consistent enough pace to win the Heavyweight Championship of the world. I think he'll have his moments. Maybe win a round or two, but ultimately get stopped somewhere between Round 8 and 10. I figure Joshua will be cautious in the opening rounds while Miller is fresh, and will open up more and more as the fight goes on, and he wears him down more and more with body punches, and just the pace of the action itself.

Miller is by far NOT the best opponent AJ's been in with and AJ is by a huge margin the best Miller has faced. I don't see the fight going that long, nor do I see Miller capable of winning more than maybe one of the first three rounds, if that. Miller will get stung by AJ's jab early on and realize he's a dead man walking. IMHO. I'd even bet Miller is overcautious from the opening, with AJ walking him down. Big mouths usually cower when faced with adversity.

I didn't say he was the best he'd faced, but that doesn't mean he's not durable. Kickboxers tend to be pretty tough dudes. Miller is thick, and has never been knocked out as a Boxer or a Kickboxer so you have to expect he can take sustained punishment for a while if nothing else even if he can't offer up much resistance offensively.

But let's it put this way. I think it's more likely that AJ goes all 12 rounds with Miller than it is he takes him out inside 2 or 3.

That being said. Don't get me wrong. He'll win convincingly, and clearly.

[DrDuke]

Hell yeah, that's the most interesting fight for Joshua, while Fury and Wilder are heading to the rematch and hopefully make it official soon. We've already seen Joshua beating Whyte, so this fight wasn't that interesting. Now we'll see Joshua beating Miller instead. I voted for AJ by the stoppage. Miller hasn't enough tools to defeat AJ. Joshua is good enough mover for slowly-walking Miller, so Joshua can stay outside. Miller has a decent hand-speed for a fat fella, he uses it well, he compensates punching power with volume. But he just won't be able to utilize it. Povetkin and Wlad wasn't able to KO Joshua after landing clean, Miller won't be able to do that either with his noticeably weaker punch. I guess, Joshua will break Miller down from the outside at the earlier stages of the fight and eventually Joshua will unleash the heavy artillery knocking Miller out.

[oogiebe]

I didn't say he was the best he'd faced, but that doesn't mean he's not durable. Kickboxers tend to be pretty tough dudes. Miller is thick, and has never been knocked out as a Boxer or a Kickboxer so you have to expect he can take sustained punishment for a while if nothing else even if he can't offer up much resistance offensively.

But let's it put this way. I think it's more likely that AJ goes all 12 rounds with Miller than it is he takes him out inside 2 or 3.

That being said. Don't get me wrong. He'll win convincingly, and clearly.

Didn't say you did, Hoss. It was my point that one fighter is facing his toughest test by far and the other isn't facing his toughest by far. It's all good!

[Paci]

Going with Joshua taking him out, but this is a good fight and Miller is like around the top 5-6 or something among the heavyweights, so yeah looking forward to this.

The World is going down to hell, but at least their are a bunch of good fighters again in heavyweight division!

[oogiebe]

Going with Joshua taking him out, but this is a good fight and Miller is like around the top 5-6 or something among the heavyweights, so yeah looking forward to this.

The World is going down to hell, but at least their are a bunch of good fighters again in heavyweight division!

I can certainly agree with all that!

[Gazmac81]

Miller has nearly 4 months do this properly and get his weight down, (if he wants to )
I have only saw him on couple fights and his hand speed was good and he was walking through what was coming back.
was very unorthodox. I think its a decent fight rather than go over old Ground in the Division with Whyte.

[patrickrogan]

I genuinely cannot see Miller getting past five rounds, or showing anything impressive. He's likely to come out fast for the first round or two in which AJ will sting him on the outside with his jab and then proceed to be in the corner or on the ropes until he is either KO'd or the towel is thrown in. IMO he doesn't have the tools to trouble AJ at all. On another note, I can't be the only one that isn't hyped in the slightest for this fight? Seriously. I'd rather have AJ Whyte, even though they have fought prior I think we'd be in for a much better fight the second time around especially as Whyte has come a very long way since his first bout with Joshua. This is has also sort of sealed that we will not be seeing AJ fight Fury or Wilder any time soon as he seems happy fighting anyone in the top ten but not the top three.

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[jamamb]

solid fight, josh in new territory vs a confident and unbeaten top 10 hometown boy

[Ricky]

fancy Miller here, he's a huge unit and if he can absorb some shots in order to close the distance AJ is going to be in waters he doesn't want to be in.

[ValMar]

This fight is something between a mismatch and a competitive fight, some kind of a border-line.
I can not imagine Miller to be victorious, if his chin is 9/10 or 10/10 (nobody knows) he may lose by wide decision (118-110 type).
I can compare this fight with Wlad - Jennings, if Miller is cautios, he might lose like Jennings, without KDs (everoyone happy).
Lucky punch ? For me, no more than 2% chance......................

[ValMar]

I can not believe - 7 votes for Miller KO/TKO.

[Onetimeonly]

I can not believe - 7 votes for Miller KO/TKO.

No doubt, I don't even think Miller hits as hard as vitaliti. Doesn't even carry a punchers chance IMO. He has pretty good stamina, if somebody wanted to pick him it should be by decision.

[oogiebe]

I can not believe - 7 votes for Miller KO/TKO.

Must be a joke, as no one has stepped up and posted their choice and why/how.

[jamamb]

rky did