Anthony Joshua listening to Mike Tyson advice | Boxing News

Anthony Joshua has been listening to the advice of Mike Tyson following his knockout loss to Daniel Dubois in September. On a four-fight successful streak on the time, many favoured AJ to clinch the vacant IBF heavyweight world championship when he met ‘DDD’ at Wembley.

However, the combat was finally a polar reverse state of affairs – Dubois besting the two-time title holder earlier than ending the job within the fifth. Joshua appeared to end the competition as he rocked his opponent during the spherical, storming in after catching him with a flurry of laborious proper arms.

It was an unwise transfer on AJ’s half, nevertheless, as he was caught with a counter proper hook by Dubois during the exchange and despatched spiralling in direction of the canvas, ensuing within the fourth loss of his skilled boxing profession. And it seems as if relatively than sulking within the doom and gloom of defeat, Joshua has heeded Tyson’s advice that he provided to Errol Spence Jr after his first defeat.

Spence Jr hasn’t fought since his 2023 TKO loss to Terence Crawford, which noticed him relinquish his WBA (Super), WBC and IBF welterweight titles. And talking concerning the occasion during an look on the It Is What It Is podcast, Tyson defined that a single loss shouldn’t spell the tip for a fighter’s profession.

The former heavyweight champion of the world defined: “The sky’s the limit. That doesn’t mean nothing, a loss. He [Spence] can still make a lot of money. This is what fighters nowadays [do]. They lose a fight, they get discouraged, [think] I might not do this no more. That’s what life’s about – you don’t get discouraged.

“In life you are going to lose…no matter. Lose our job, lose our mom, lose our enamel, lose our hair, and we have got to proceed to reside, proceed to navigate.” Joshua’s promotor, Eddie Hearn, insists that Joshua has no thoughts of retiring any time soon, explaining that the Briton wants to become world champion once more.

He also had hopes of facing off against the winner of Dubois vs Joseph Parker before ‘DDD’ pulled out of their showdown on Saturday night, citing illness. Parker will now face Martin Bakole instead.

Speaking to BetFred, Hearn explained: “Right now as a result of Tyson Fury is retired, so put him to the aspect, the primary selection for AJ is to combat for the world heavyweight title. That’s 99 per cent of what he desires to do and if that is Daniel Dubois, no drawback. If that is Joseph Parker, no drawback.

“If AJ turns around and says that’s what he’s doing, then it’s done. It’s not me saying he can’t fight Daniel Dubois. Some people say he shouldn’t have fought Oleksandr Usyk. What are you talking about? It’s your job, he’s the mandatory, what do you want to do? Give your belt up and have all that criticism that you ducked Usyk and you vacated your belt to do it?”

Hearn additionally defined that Joshua is not planning on following Tyson Fury into retirement any time quickly, because the ‘Gypsy King’ introduced he was stepping away from the game in January following back-to-back losses to Oleksandr Usyk – pouring cold water on any hopes of a long-awaited showdown between him and Joshua.

Dubois was on a three-fight successful streak over Joshua, Filip Hrgovic, and Jarrell Miller earlier than he was compelled to withdraw from his combat on the Kingdom Arena in Saudi Arabia.

Meanwhile, Parker, who’s unbeaten in his final 5 fights, is now planning to add Bakole’s identify to his spectacular record of latest victories, which incorporates Deontay Wilder, Zhilei Zhang and Simon Kean.