Jermaine Franklin Believes He Has To KO Or Be Dominate Against Anthony Joshua To Win

Jermaine Franklin thinks in order to get the win over Anthony Joshua he needs to KO the Brit or clearly win.

Franklin is set to fight Joshua on April 1 at the O2 Arena in London as Joshua looks to return to the win column. Many have called this a tune-up fight for the former heavyweight champ but Franklin isn’t believing that. Instead, he is confident he will get his hand raised, but knows if the fight is close no judge is going to score it for him.

“I’m trying to knock AJ out. I know I’m probably not going to get no fair shake over here. That’s our mentality, kill. I don’t want to s**t on nobody, but we’ve already kind of been through that. We kind of just got through that situation,” Franklin told IFL TV. “Honestly, because I won the last fight on points. The CompuBox numbers say I outpunched him in almost every round, by four rounds and they gave him the fight. I feel like I’m in a position where I have to knock him out or dominate the whole fight, extremely dominate the whole fight.

“I watched [the Whyte fight] probably like two-three times, I felt like I won. There was a lot of cheating going on in that damn fight,” Franklin continued. “I was like, ‘Damn, I just need a bit of fairness.’ I kept getting clubbed, low-blows, headbutted, all types of sh!t. But as soon as I did something, the ref was on me. I was like, ‘Yeah, all I asked for was a fair shake.’ I know I ain’t gonna get a fair shake on everything but at least keep me protected in the ring. That was the biggest thing I took from it, besides that I thought I easily won the fight 7-5.”

Jermaine Franklin is coming off a controversial majority decision loss to Dillian Whyte back in November and will now face Anthony Joshua. The loss to Whyte was his first career defeat as the American has wins over Rodney Moore and Rydell Booker among others.

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