What does Dubois’ victory mean for boxing: I guess Joshua has now used up all his credits, Hrgi chance?

Everything was subordinated to the British project of Anthony Joshua. He filled Wembley, 96,000 people boxed, which is a record in that stadium, a good part of the fans even gave a shout out to Daniel Dubois, a native of London!? And then the peak of the slyness and underestimation of Dubois: the champion, the defending IBF world champion, entered the ring first, and his challengerč other!? Unprecedented, unremembered… and so will motivate for the thunderous Dynamite!

In the first round, Joshua immediately tested the comfort of the floor in the ring, then twice more, and in the corner before the fifth round, the coach told him:

– You can get away with it, just be smart.

– I did – AJ readily answered him.

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Fifty seconds later the story was over, Joshua could no longer stand up. Tyson Fury he watched in disbelief as the “Battle of Britain” collapsed, which he himself had postponed in recent years, Conor McGregor he was jumping enthusiastically, Dubois, as always, modestly thanked everyone for the opportunity, his family for their support, and said that he is a gladiator whose time has come and he will not stop until he realizes his full potential… And somewhere in solitude Filip Hrgović he looked at meč and racked his brain about what opportunity he had missed. Yes, this Joshua could also win!

– I lost, and I still have that impression, to a worse fighter – he said at the beginning of June, hiding both closed eyes under sunglasses after an eight-round fight with Dubois.

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A well-deserved defeat, but also a much more equal match than Joshua’s with Dubois.

Dubois lost to Joe Joyce in November 2020, in a bout that his promoter Frank Warren claims he entered with a double fracture. The shy introvert, who has been in boxing all his life through his father and they said he didn’t have the heart to fight and that’s why he won’t be anything, after four victories he got another chance. And against Oleksandr Usik. In August 2023, he lost in the ninth round.

And then in the last year he beat Jarrell Miller and then Hrgov, which brought him the IBF belt, and now Joshua. And he just turned 27! Usa is 37, Fury is 36, Joshua is 34…

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That’s why we believe that Hrgović (32) may get another chance to go to the top, maybe through the stumbling Joshua, but also that we will still watch “Battle of Britain”, only with other protagonists: Fury vs. Dubois.

Joshua I guess he paid off all the loans. The British project made big, huge money in the world of boxing, but in the last six years he lost all the ‘serious’ matches! Sensational from Andy Ruiz, then twice from Usik and now from Dubois. Smooth.