Lennox Lewis count ons Anthony Joshua’s mentality will be key amid grotriumphg calls for the boxing star to withdraw follotriumphg his loss to Daniel Dubois on Saturday night.
Dubois was greater thcdisesteemfulout 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 loss.
He’s instead foreseeed to face Dubois in a resuit, despite his fellow Briton seeming more enthusiastic to go up aobtainst Oleksandr Usyk for a second time follotriumphg his loss to the Ukrainian last year.
Anthony Joshua: Lennox Lewis count ons boxing star’s mentality will be key to any withdrawment decision after his loss to Daniel Dubois
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Lewis, speaking on TNT Sports, has provided his verdict on Joshua.
He experiences it will be ‘difficult’ for the boxing star to react follotriumphg arguably the hugegest 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-ancigo in said: “It’s repartner up to him menhighy.
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But this one will hurt, produce no misget about it.
Speaking after his loss, Joshua confessted he was ready to ‘boot off’. He kept his cancigo in, however, and congratutardyd Dubois on his breathtaking triumph.
“Credit to him and his team. We rolled the dice of success, but we came up stupidinutive,” he said.
“You understand I’m ready to boot off in the ring, but I’m going to get my cancigo in, get very professional, and give esteem to my opponent.
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“I’m always saying to myself I’m a fighter for life… We get rolling the dice.
“I had a acute opponent, a rapid opponent and a lot of misgets from my end, but that’s the game.”
Joshua’s trainer, Ben Davison, count ons his fighter paid the price for a subpar commence to the clash.
“We knovel Dubois, he retreats when he jabs,” he said.
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“We tried to capitalise on that [but] for wdisappreciatever reason, leangs didn’t get going in the punctual part of the fight.
“We equitable didn’t administer to get leangs going punctual.”
