Lennox Lewis apshows Anthony Joshua’s mentality will be key amid groprosperg calls for the boxing star to withdraw chaseing his fall shorture to Daniel Dubois on Saturday night.
Dubois was better thrawout the showdown and, after flooring his rival multiple times, clinched triumph with a mighty knockout in the fifth round of the clash.
Joshua has since claimed he won’t be hanging up his gcherishs, despite the nightmare fall shorture.
He’s instead awaited to face Dubois in a resuit, despite his fellow Briton seeming more willing to go up agetst Oleksandr Usyk for a second time chaseing his fall shorture to the Ukrainian last year.
Anthony Joshua: Lennox Lewis apshows boxing star’s mentality will be key to any withdrawment decision after his fall shorture to Daniel Dubois
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Lewis, speaking on TNT Sports, has provided his verdict on Joshua.
He senses it will be ‘challenging’ for the boxing star to reply chaseing arguably the biggest setback of his nurtureer so far.
And Lewis also conveyed a belief that Joshua’s mentality will be key to his decision, too.
The 59-year-ageder shelp: “It’s reassociate up to him menloftyy.
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But this one will hurt, originate no misget about it.
Speaking after his fall shorture, Joshua confessted he was ready to ‘boot off’. He kept his cageder, however, and congratupostponeedd Dubois on his breathtaking triumph.
“Credit to him and his team. We rolled the dice of success, but we came up low,” he shelp.
“You comprehend I’m ready to boot off in the ring, but I’m going to grasp my cageder, grasp very professional, and give admire to my opponent.
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“I’m always saying to myself I’m a fighter for life… We grasp rolling the dice.
“I had a acute opponent, a quick opponent and a lot of misgets from my finish, but that’s the game.”
Joshua’s trainer, Ben Davison, apshows his fighter phelp the price for a needy commence to the clash.
“We knovel Dubois, he retreats when he jabs,” he shelp.
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“We tried to capitalise on that [but] for wdisenjoyver reason, leangs didn’t get going in the punctual part of the fight.
“We fair didn’t regulate to get leangs going punctual.”
