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thatllbeme wrote:theres no one in the uk other than haye price fury and chisora that may give him a fight! maybe someone like Ustinov ruiz jr Thompson charr arreola helenius hammer or browne

It may just be in the wording, but Haye, Fury, Chisora or Price "just give him a fight"?

there's a very real chance he loses against at least one of those guys and given that we still know very little about Anthony at a decent level, there is the slight possibility he loses to any of them

I personally think he might go on to be a really good heavyweight, he does look really impressive right now, but i think we're all jumping the gun a bit with the lad, he's a long way from competing at world class

davie wrote:

thatllbeme wrote:theres no one in the uk other than haye price fury and chisora that may give him a fight! maybe someone like Ustinov ruiz jr Thompson charr arreola helenius hammer or browne

It may just be in the wording, but Haye, Fury, Chisora or Price "just give him a fight"?

there's a very real chance he loses against at least one of those guys and given that we still know very little about Anthony at a decent level, there is the slight possibility he loses to any of them

I personally think he might go on to be a really good heavyweight, he does look really impressive right now, but i think we're all jumping the gun a bit with the lad, he's a long way from competing at world class

I would imagine he would be the clear betting underdog in all of those fights if they were made for next year ... With the possible exception of Price as he hasn't really beaten anyone better than Joshua, although I suppose you would argue that Pala or Sexton are better than anyone AJ has bested.

So yeah, "give him a fight" is a stupid statement.

He would be the favourite to LOSE every single one of those fights!

I'd like to see him in against Seth Mitchell

davie wrote:Mcdermot would just be more cannon fodder,

I've said for a while, that i'd love to see Joshua Vs Hughie Fury.

Is Hughie going to fight again?

TopGun wrote:

davie wrote:Mcdermot would just be more cannon fodder,

I've said for a while, that i'd love to see Joshua Vs Hughie Fury.

Is Hughie going to fight again?

I've no idea.

he's only been out of the ring 5 months

Have you heard something that i haven't? Was he considering retirement because he never won the world title quicker than tyson?

davie wrote:

TopGun wrote:

davie wrote:Mcdermot would just be more cannon fodder,

I've said for a while, that i'd love to see Joshua Vs Hughie Fury.

Is Hughie going to fight again?

I've no idea.

he's only been out of the ring 5 months

Have you heard something that i haven't? Was he considering retirement because he never won the world title quicker than tyson?

Someone said to me that he had a blood condition that meant he may have to retire.....his twitter suggests different.

lefty wrote:

Sklar wrote:I'm being straight up, that's what he was doing last time I heard. When he first turned over, Ian Darke used to point it out that John was an artist pretty much every fight.

Fairplay! I never noticed it. Thanks for the insight.

I like John but I don't think John is an Artist, and I'm sure of that..

jameswilson wrote:If him and Mick Hennessy teamed up there would be a huge ruck over whether something should be 'sculpted' or 'caaaaaaarved out of stone!'

Molded from playdough would be more appropriate with those two.

TopGun wrote:

Karl Jade wrote:John's inactivity is ridiculous, mind. I know people have confronted him on it and he just shrugs it off. I think he's lost the passion for competing.

2 sides to every story. He has not had any offers

Dillon White, Sexton and Lewison are three he's been offered/matched with in the past couple of years. Just a real shame a guy still fairly young with all that ability goes so long between fights. He gave Povetkin a lot of trouble last year in sparring and was meant to be sparring him again this summer.

John 'The Artist' McDermott

Shame he never sculpted his gut

I think John McDermott is quite underrated. He just needs to believe in himself more. He's taken a couple of dives because he didn't want to take anymore punishment imo.