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Fury and Usyk are tied up.
Deontay Wilder lost.

I think Joshua waits it out to see what happens in the Fury v Usyk bout.

Hrgovic for the soon to be vacant IBF trinket.

Even a rematch with the revived Parker wouldn't be bad.

Hrgovic for IBF belt then faces Fury if he beats Usyk.

To me he should still fight Wilder.

If they feel Wilder must have a win. Why don't they do a card with the opposite matchups.

Joshua vs Parker 2

Wilder vs Wallin.

If Wilder beats Wallin. Boom. Go ahead with the plan you initially had.

Although personally I wouldn't care if they just went ahead and did it anyway.

They went ahead and had Pac vs Morales 2 in spite of Morales being upset by Zahir Raheem in what was intended to be a Warm up bout.

Wilder was nullified by a boxer last night, there is a reason he was never slated to fight AJ - because he would lose.

So the AJ Wilder fight is pointless.

The Miller fight is pointless, which is a bit of a shame, I'm sure AJ would like to batter him about for the screw up of their first fight.

I'd like to see him in with either Sanchez or Dubois.

Zhang
Hrgovic
Parker

Styles make fights; Wallin was a tailor made confidence booster for AJ and should not be considered as a canon for that matter.

His chances are zero to none against Hrgovic.
Only maybe surviving the first half en route to an UD/MD with Zhang gassing later. Which is unlikely IMHO. Zhang can shatter his chin and whatever confidence he has left in the process.
Even Parker is a different mountain to climb this time for him with his current fragile, gun-shy psychology.
Fury is not on the horizon.

Leaving current shot Wilder being the best option for him; style-wise and financially. Mid to low risk-high reward at this time.

vostok wrote: ↑24 Dec 2023, 16:50 Styles make fights; Wallin was a tailor made confidence booster for AJ and should not be considered as a canon for that matter.

His chances are zero to none against Hrgovic.
Only maybe surviving the first half en route to an UD/MD with Zhang gassing later. Which is unlikely IMHO. Zhang can shatter his chin and whatever confidence he has left in the process.
Even Parker is a different mountain to climb this time for him with his current fragile, gun-shy psychology.
Fury is not on the horizon.

Leaving current shot Wilder being the best option for him; style-wise and financially. Mid to low risk-high reward at this time.

Right. It's the fight to make for both guys.

For Wilder it's a must win as it's either a win there or that's it for his career at the top.

For AJ beating Wilder boosts his all time standing, and just finally gives us all a fight that is long overdue.

If not that then Wilder vs Joyce is still more interesting to me than Joshua vs anybody except Wilder.

Wilder's done for having lost to Parker

Parker was done for having lost to Joyce

Joyce is done for losing to Zhang.

How about we all just let these guys keep mixing it up, and don't write off any of these matchups as worth seeing. I think it's clear to see that we're basically looking at a bunch of evenly matched guys here or close to it, and the various combinations of these matchups could give us a wide variety of results.

Assuming Wilder fights again...........and that is not a safe assumption................I wouldn't be surprised if he fights in the super-cruiser/bridger division.

- Top o the Merry Christmas season to all, but 2024 is time for all the wannabees to step up.

Usyk the Man age 36 been boxing from his teens needs a one and done fight to retire on, ie Hrg the biggest he can make on this timeline.

AJ more than any made his retirement early on only needs to fight a few up and comers, say Sanchez and Anderson and Hrg that he beats before riding off knowing more than any he returned boxing to the people.

The Juiced Gypsum Princess and TBA short notice Deyonce along with MOB Warren and Bunkered Haymon can do the dingle shuffle screwing up boxing before their odorous adios stewing in the swill of their illicit designs.

Parker is still amazingly young enough to fill the AJ/Usyk vacuum while the rest of these scared gen of heavies figure out its better career wise to fight than coast.

Meanwhile back at the pass, The Ring Experts are still scrambling to resurrect their Golden Boy crumbling Empire after their 18-3 picks of Deyonce over Parker, so best to have a safe to bunker what with 3rd Millennium crumbling in self-created WARS in the Nuclear Age yet again.

And who to thank other than the usual suspects?

Aye, let the beatings continue…

Evander wrote: ↑24 Dec 2023, 03:22 Fury and Usyk are tied up.
Deontay Wilder lost.

I think Joshua waits it out to see what happens in the Fury v Usyk bout.

If I were him, I wouldn't be waiting for Usyk/Fury.

The world doesn’t need to see Joshua against Usyk again, we know what will happen.

If Fury wins, he will arse about, fake retirement, then rematch Ngannou in 2025.

Joshua needs to target Hrgovic and try to become a three time champion, then if he wins he holds an ace.

Hrgovic or Zhang while Fury fights Usyk. If Fury wins, then vs him.