Anthony Joshua Plans To Make This Run Successful, Hopeful To Go Out On Top
Anthony Joshua is hopeful he can end his career on top.
Joshua is set to face Jermaine Franklin on Saturday in a massive fight for his career. Joshua is coming off back-to-back losses to Oleksandr Usyk and if he loses to Franklin, his time as a title contender is over. But, if he wins, he could secure a fight against Tyson Fury so Joshua knows he has to go all out on Saturday.
If he does win, Anthony Joshua knows it sets him up to have a big fight and another title shot. He also hopes he can end his career as a champion and on top of the heavyweight division.
“I think Eddie’s right. Because how long can this run go on for, three or four years? And you know how quick time goes. We’re saying this now and we can look back in two years, three years, and be like f—— hell where’s the time gone? So, if I was going to do another run after this, you’re talking about fighting into my forties and I believe boxing is a young man’s sport,” Joshua said to The Sun. It takes a real solid character like Bernard Hopkins, George Foreman, Wladimir Klitschko or Alexander Povetkin to go on into their forties. But this is a run I want to make successful and then, hopefully, go out on top.
“It’s been a great run. It’s not a level where I’m expecting a certain amount of love and respect. I did want respect from people in the industry that I admire, legends in the game. And when you’re not a champion any more you feel like that goes away, so that was definitely something I was yearning for — the respect from ex-champions,” Joshua continued. “And — when I lost it — I was like ‘F—, I’ve lost that invincibility’. It’s all good, we move forward. Obviously, on the night [with the Usyk rematch], that was probably not a side people see from me every day, but it is what it is, that’s what’s in me. And if you watch me long enough, you’re going to see all types of sh!t.”
Anthony Joshua is currently a massive -1450 favorite meaning the oddsmakers expect him to win with ease.
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