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so looks like chisora will have a rematch for the european title against helinius ....which leaves anthony joshua without an opponent for april because chisora was supposed to be his opponent ,,,,so now what for aj?

Last chance saloon for Del Boy.

Chisora has dodge a bullet there.

Joshua would have splattered Chisora all over the canvas!

I think Parker is looking at Ustinov or Takam for April. Either one would be good for AJ - a durable Euro opponent

Christian Hammer, would be a good fight for Joshua next, world rated and toughish?

i would go for Malik Scott .. i think AJ and Scott dont like each other after the Whyte fight .. would be a nice fight

I haven't seen anything saying that chisora will take it.

just had a look at how boxrec ranks the heavyweights right now and picked a few names I think would be interesting for Joshua

british ranking :
*Hughie Fury 18-0, a win would send a message of intent to Tyson Fury at the same time.

European:
*Christian Hammer 18-4, #2 in Germany, coming off a win over Sherman Williams, former WBO European champion
(less said about the #1 German heavyweight Erkan Teper after what happened with Price the better right now)
*Tomasz Adamek 50-4, former World Title challenger

Commonwealth:
*Joseph Parker 17-0, won various lesser world titles, current WBO oriental heavyweight champion

northern wrote:just had a look at how boxrec ranks the heavyweights right now and picked a few names I think would be interesting for Joshua

british ranking :
*Hughie Fury 18-0, a win would send a message of intent to Tyson Fury at the same time.

European:
*Christian Hammer 18-4, #2 in Germany, coming off a win over Sherman Williams, former WBO European champion
(less said about the #1 German heavyweight Erkan Teper after what happened with Price the better right now)
*Tomasz Adamek 50-4, former World Title challenger

Commonwealth:
*Joseph Parker 17-0, won various lesser world titles, current WBO oriental heavyweight champion

We all want to see AJ v Parker, but I doubt either team will do it unless they have to for a title shot. If they both keep winning, it will be much bigger in a couple of years.
Hammer is a good choice, before AJ fights the winner of Helenius v Chisora for the Euro belt
I like Scott as well - but that's a tougher fight than Hammer. Malik can box, but doesn't have the power to keep AJ off him.
Adamek is shot, surely?
Hughie isn't that level yet - he has to fill out a bit.

Personally I would like to see Hughie in that spot. Say what you want of the kid, but he's always been Tyson's main sparring partner and he's worked with Steve Cunningham and Eddie Chambers, so I think his ring IQ is much higher than people realize. Besides, the kid fights a certain way for a reason (scoring points), to get as many rounds in as possible because for whatever reason it's hard to get him fights. I think he's got the speed, and ability to avoid any real dangers that Joshua could throw his way. Call me crazy, but I was right about Tyson from the start. I think Hughie, potentially, will be a far greater boxer than his cousin. In three years, tops, the kid will be a champion himself even if he doesn't get Joshua. I'd bet $1,000 right now that Hughie would defeat Helenius.

lowlefthand wrote:
We all want to see AJ v Parker, but I doubt either team will do it unless they have to for a title shot. If they both keep winning, it will be much bigger in a couple of years.
Hammer is a good choice, before AJ fights the winner of Helenius v Chisora for the Euro belt
I like Scott as well - but that's a tougher fight than Hammer. Malik can box, but doesn't have the power to keep AJ off him.
Adamek is shot, surely?
Hughie isn't that level yet - he has to fill out a bit.

That's true matching both of them up when they both get to world level and if they're both still undefeated would be an incredible title match if they both keep developing as boxers at the rate they are as well.
I have to admit though I put Adamek really as more of a name for Joshua to add to his career and give him a taste of European opponents but again I don't think he'd give Joshua any real trouble

going on to Hughie though, outside of Chisora he's the only real British opposition Joshua hasn't beat already, Cornish and Whyte were the other up and comers but he beat them pretty convincingly and other wise you'd be looking at matching him against people like Sprott, Sexton or Dallas for fights at British level.