No social distancing at today’s weigh-in for Saturday’s fight between WBA/IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and challenger Kubrat Pulev. Both fighters got in each other’s grill.
Anthony Joshua 240.8 vs. Kubrat Pulev 239.7
(IBF, WBA, WBO heavyweight titles)
Lawrence Okolie 199.8 vs. Nikodem Jezewski 199.7
Hughie Fury 247.3 vs. Mariusz Wach 272.4
Martin Bakole 251.4 vs. Sergey Kuzmin 258.5
Kieron Conway 159.6 vs. Macaulay McGowan 158.5
Florian Marku 147 vs. Jamie Stewart 145.9
Qais Ashfaq 124.25 vs. Ashley Lane 122.4
Venue: SSE Arena, London
Promoter: Matchroom
TV: DAZN, SkySports
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Joshua plays it safe, then it is a decision. If he has watched the Wlad/Pulev fight and decides to throw some big right hands, this should be a stoppage at some point. Sorry Pulev, not going to be winning a title in this lifetime.
That’s what most us said about Andy Ruiz also. Look what happened.
Andy’s got power, quick hands and throwing combos.
From Pulev fights I remembered a lot of clinching and that wont go against AJ.
He s got great left jab.It wont be enough. AJ is going to stop him.
I think Klitschko took out Pulev with left hooks, not with rights
Clearly this is a legitimate fight, against a legitimate opponent. Should be very exciting…
Yeah this is a legitimate fight. I find it funny that AJ is criticised so much for opponents. This is essentially AJ’s ‘in between’ fight and it is still Kubrat Pulev. If Pulev, Ruiz or Povetkin fought Wilder or Fury, it would be considered intriguing. Compare this to Agit Kabayel, who Fury was lined up to fight on the same night. Different levels! AJ should win this comfortably, but considering what is at stake in the next fight, this is a real banana skin.
Heats up NO!
Both look physically fit, looks like Pulev by watching some of his fights sometimes gets lazy with his hands and brings them down a little too much.
Should be an easy win for Joshua if not we only have one true champion Fury
If pulev stands right in front of AJ like he did with Clinchko—lights out within 4 rounds.
Anthony Joshua only looks like a champion. He got chin-checked by Uniroyal tire boy then spent his second fight on a bike running from a worse version with no conditioning at all. Don’t respect cats getting dropped by tomato cans.
This will be AJ’s first real fight since being knocked out. AJ ran from an out of shape Ruiz in the rematch and was afraid to check his chin. I want to see how he handles his first really clean shot. We have all seen fighters fall apart after being knocked out. When he gets hit clean the Ruiz fight will flash in his head and then we can see if he’s really back. Honestly I expected him to take a couple very easy fights after the rematch to build himself back up in his own head.
Nothing new. Typical heat-of-the-moment face-off to promote an event.
That security guy, getting in between Joshua and Pulev, questioned his own choice of occupation exactly at that moment.
Pulev has neither speed nor work-rate to beat Joshua. I cannot see how this fight can end differently than Klitschko vs Pulev.
2 stupid primitive and pathetic fighters: barking like mad dogs, showing hatred, this is a shame for boxing reputation. We are far far from the class of Klitcsko brothers
Yes, the Klitschko brothers always had style and behaved correctly, which makes me respect the two even more.