Anthony Joshua 255.4 vs. Jermaine Franklin 234.12
Fabio Wardley 242.6 vs. Michael Polite-Coffie 269.4
Galal Yafai 113.8 vs. Moises Calleros 114.2
Campbell Hatton 139.12 vs. Louis Fiedling 138.6
Austin Williams 162.8 vs. River Wilson-Bent 162.7
John Hedges 189.14 vs. Daniel Bocianski 186.4
Ziyad Almaayouf 145.14 vs. Georgi Velichkov 142.7
Jordan Flynn 129.10 vs. Kane Baker 129.8
Juergen Uldedaj 203.8 vs. Benoit Huber 200
Peter Kadiru 239.3 vs. Alen Lauriolle 273.2
Venue: O2 Arena, London
Promoter: Matchroom
TV: DAZN
Joshua is on his way to another loss. The extra weight won’t help him. He has already suffered losses at the hands of a blown up cruiserweight (Usyk), and the Stay Puft Marsmallow man (Ruiz). A fourth loss will send him to gatekeeper status. I really hope he has a good strategy in place and his corner has a backup strategy if plan A fails.
Joshua coming in at his heaviest for this fight and Franklin coming in really light. Interesting. So is Franklin planning to be as mobile as possible and try take the fight into the later rounds and tire out the musclebound Joshua.
Franklin tends to be sloppy with wide punches. But, it looks like he trained to go the distance.
Coffie lost quite a bit of weight as well.
It isn’t too bad, he was 254 for Takam a few years ago. Franklin being 22+ lighter though from Whyte is VERY interesting.
Incidentally, if you ever want to see something crazy, go on boxrec and look up a fighter named Vicente Martin Rodriguez and look at his weights….
Joshua had that heavy and slow look the Takam fight. The later rounds the fight looked like it was turning, but then Takam got caught of course. Really though the second Usyk fight Joshua showed better stamina, maybe he still has more of that, let’s see.
Would another Joshua loss shock anyone?
Good Lord Lucie…he is as bad as Guillermo Jones! LOL!! 128 to 176 where Jones goes from 145.5 to 241.lb. I think Jones almost added a full Strawweight! LOL!! As for this fight people are focusing on Joshua’s mental state and understandably so. Whyte would also probably have had some demons when he faced Franklin as he had been knocked out in 2 of his 3 previous outings!
Pete…. he fought Arnold Khegai on 12-18-21 and he was 128. On 2-12-22 he was 172 against Juan Jose Diaz…. he went up 44lbs in 8 weeks?! Three months later he was back down to 146 and by November, back to lightheavy. His next fight is against Oscar Ahlin (who may have THE creepiest photo on all of boxrec) who’s been as high as cruiser, so who knows what weight that fight is at.
At least Jones had a gradual climb. I think we can assume that your dude enjoyed his Christmas holidays!! LOL!!! His weight fluctuates like a bad lie detector test! Cannot be healthy! Yeah..maybe Oscar should not be hired as the next school janitor! Lol!
Joshua shall need complete focus-Franklin is dangerous!
I don’t have a problem with the weight, he looks good.
Hopefully he still moves well, but more importantly maybe the extra weight will give him some comfort that he can take a punch better.
Ppl don’t talk about it but that knock out to ruiz has to be on his mind in the subsequent fights which is probably why he was so content to box at distance and get in close and nasty.
Hopefully we get see that dog in him, but I’m still not convinced he has anything more than poodle.
Correction. And NOT get in close and nasty!
i will be very surprised if franklin wins this one.
however, he does look like he is in the midst of getting into professional athlete shape/conditon.
(looks like he needs another year of training)
My guess is Joshua will go end with a seek and destroy mentality
My concern is carrying that extra weight
Joshua has to get him out of there within 8 rds
If Joshua loses, then Not even a top tier trainer like Derrick James was able to help him!
I just hope AJ uses his weight to his advantage and gets the win inside of 3 rounds.
Obvious that Joshua knocking Franklin out quick. He’s on a comeback mood, let see where it will take him for the last part of his career.
This is the last time I’m ever gonna watch Joshua fight . If he lets me down one more time ! His problem isn’t his abilities, his problem is in his head . If he didn’t get help for that all that training was a waiste if time . He needs to let his hands go ! End Of Rant
If Franklin is still in there after 6 rounds, then it gets interesting as that extra weight will take it’s toll on AJ.
Wait, this is on DAZN? I thought it was ESPN+.
Oh, well
Post KO loss Joshua has become a Dollar General version of Wladimir Klitchko.