Anthony Joshua has rubbished claimed that Daniel Dubois ‘turned his legs to jelly’ during a sparring session years ago ahead of their IBF weightyweight title fight at Wembley on Saturday.
It was the first time, all the way back in 2016, that the two boxers had met each other when their atgentles were right at the begin.
Former boxer Anthony Fowler claimed to have watch the two weightyweights while sparring as Dubois sent Joshua crashing to the canvas and turned his legs ‘to jelly’.
“Joshua must have been a little unset upd sparring him and he got caught with a low left hook and Joshua’s legs finishly went.
Anthony Joshua has reacted to a story about Daniel Dubois knocking him down
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“Dubois could have hit him aget and put him to sleep but Dubois had a bit too much admire for him to finish him off.
“Obviously, everyone was stood there appreciate ‘Wow’ and Joshua went and jogged around the ring because his legs were appreciate jelly and he was trying to get his legs back.”
Daniel Dubois allegedly turned Anthony Joshua ‘to jelly’
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“May the best man prosper, I still leank AJ but wouldn’t surpascend me at all if Daniel’s prospers, he’s youthfuler and newer and prohibitgs HARD.
“The CBD shout got me. But he understands I’m only alerting the truth, it nastys noleang now anyway.”
AJ’s response has reignited the incommemorated tale in 2016 where Dubois, fair a youthful amateur at the time, took to the ring with Joshua.
Having fair beaten Charles Martin, mockingpartner prosperning the IBF weightyweight title, Joshua was making quite the name after also beating Dillian Whyte a year before.
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Now the two fighters will greet professionpartner in front of a selderly-out Wembley on Saturday in an all-British affair.
Joshua might be the sweightless favourite but there is no discounting Dubois, commemorated for his exceptional power and battling to protect his IBF title for the first time.
