Tim Bradley believes Anthony Joshua had a “system overload” due to the speed at which IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois put him through last Saturday night, saying Joshua didn’t have time to process the mental programming he had been taught by his many trainers over his 11-year career.

(Source: Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing)

Bradley believes Joshua (28-4, 25 KOs) has “evolved” technically with so many different trainers in his career, but with Dubois’ pace, Joshua was overwhelmed and unable to figure out which game plan to exploit.

For all the technical knowledge Joshua had learned, he had no time to search his mind because Dubois had him under fire. Physically, Joshua looked exactly the same as he did when he fought Wladimir Klitschko in 2017.

The difference was that when Dubois knocked Joshua down, he kept attacking him. Klitschko didn’t do that. When he knocked Joshua down, he chose to box and leave him without a hook. That was stupid of Klitschko and he should have won that fight because Joshua was hurt badly from the sixth to the tenth.

If last Saturday’s Dubois were put into a working time machine and transported to 2017, he would have knocked out Joshua, who fought Klitschko.

“AJ has gotten a little better skill-wise. He’s evolved, going through all these coaches. The thing is, when you push him, it’s like overloading the system,” said Tim Bradley Probox TVtalking about how Anthony Joshua gets disoriented and can’t think when he has to fight at a rapid pace, like we saw last Saturday night in his fight with Daniel Dubois.

When a fighter constantly changes coaches, like Joshua did, it gives him too much knowledge and he can’t process it in the same way if he was with one coach from day one. When you only have one coach your whole career, you know what to do.

“He doesn’t know what to do. He has to react quickly, and that requires him to make quick decisions,” Bradley continued of Joshua. “I knew that coming in. Dubois is very good when he’s coming forward. He’s very explosive. He’s got a pendulum bounce. He’ll bounce off and then he’ll come forward very quickly and close the gap on you.”

Joshua’s attitude of having to change trainers every time he loses came back to haunt him, preventing him from handling the high-pressure situation last Saturday. This wouldn’t have happened if Joshua had stuck with the trainer he first turned pro with.

“I think the fight was won from the start. As soon as I saw AJ come out, his chin was up and his hands were down,” Bradley said. “I looked at my wife and said, ‘That’s it. He’s getting ready to have his chin shot off.’ As soon as that right hook landed, he never recovered from that first right hook.”

Joshua seemed to be following his trainer Ben Davison’s game plan of using movement, which was ineffective as it allowed Dubois to attack him and unload with full force. AJ never really got going in the first round before being taken down, and was too injured in the remaining rounds to do much.

“He still looked a little bit like the same AJ, but his chin was up. His hands were down. I don’t know if that had anything to do with the way he was trained. But that was AJ, guys. That’s how it was. He got outplayed, he got out of position, and Dubois came in to win and he showed up.”

This was a 100% rebuilt Joshua, rebuilt to factory specs, who Dubois destroyed. He won not because Joshua was finished, as some people think, but rather because he was fighting a guy with power similar to Wladimir Klitschko. Joshua would have had problems with Dubois earlier in his career.

“One more thing. This is the first punch since AJ fought Ruiz [in 2019]”He ain’t fought nobody who can punch. Think about it. His first real boxer, bro. He ain’t fought nobody who can punch that strenuous,” Bradley said.

AJ had faced one great puncher, Francis Ngannou, in the past five years since his second fight with Andy Ruiz. But Ngannou, a boxing novice with one pro fight under his belt, had no skill and didn’t know how to exploit the power he had in his fight with Joshua last March. Aside from Ngannou, Joshua hadn’t fought anyone who could punch, which allowed him to do well.

Joshua’s opponents since Ruiz:

-Daniel Dubois
-Francis Ngannou
-Otto Wallin
—Robert Helenius
-Jermaine Franklin
– Oleksandr Usyk x 2
– Kubrat Pulev

By: Sean Crose

Boxing is a brutal sport – a brutal, sometimes deadly sport. All fighters know that, but there are those who struggle to call it a career, regardless. The desire to stay in the ring can be especially forceful when the fighter in question has had a very successful career. The list of fighters who have lasted too long is long. No one wants another fighter to stay longer than they should have. That’s why former heavyweight champion and world star Anthony Joshua should seriously consider retirement after suffering a devastating defeat at the hands of Daniel Dubois with gloves in his hometown of London last weekend.

Look, boxers get beat up — sometimes demanding. It’s not just part of the sport, but it doesn’t guarantee a life of misery for the fighters who take the beating. But Joshua has been beaten up many times — and by world-class fighters. While no one is saying that Dubois and Andy Ruiz (who also scored a brutal win over Joshua in 2019) are this generation’s Ali and Frazier, they are both world-class professional fighters who faced and beat Joshua while in their prime. Dubois and Ruiz are not tomato cans. Their punches hurt. And both men have done Joshua significant damage.

Then there’s Joshua’s incredible fight with former champion Wladimir Klitschko. Although he won the fight in great style, Joshua was crushed so badly by former champion Klitschko that he collapsed and was nearly finished off. Again, the guy got hurt in what turned out to be a classic slugfest. All of this is to say that Joshua didn’t just take a lot of punches, he took a lot of punches from the best in the business. I’ve long maintained that boxing is not an immoral endeavor as long as the long-term safety of the fighters is the highest priority. Joshua may have another fight or two, but now his long-term safety is at risk. The guy has simply taken too much damage to ignore reality.

Does this mean Joshua will retire? Maybe not. Maybe he’ll stay and prove to the world that he DID NOT HAVE to retire. But finding out is a risky investment for Joshua at this point. Here’s a prayer the guy makes the right choice.

On several occasions, Joey Dawejko’s mouthpiece came off in his fight with heavyweight contender Richard Torrez Jr. last week. And on several occasions, Dawejko was warned, then docked points, then disqualified, giving Torrez a fifth-round victory.

Dawejko says he wasn’t looking for relief — extra time to recuperate while cleaning and replacing his mouthpiece — or a way to retire from the fight.

“To be clear, I didn’t spit out the mouthpiece on purpose,” Dawejko wrote on Facebook. “I was hit and the mouthpiece kept falling out.”

(Ryan Songalia from The Ring he was the first to report it.)

During the broadcast, commentator Tim Bradley asked if Dawejko had bought a homemade mouthpiece from a store that he boiled in water and pressed with his teeth. Bradley said that mouthpieces made by professionals, including those made by dentists, would not come out as easily or consistently as Dawejko’s mouthpieces.

It was the first time Dawejko had been disqualified, and only the fourth time he had missed the final bell. The 34-year-old Philadelphian now has a record of 28-12-4 (16 KOs).

Torrez, a silver medalist in the super heavyweight division at the 2020-21 Olympics, improved to 11-0 (10 KOs). It was his first fight that didn’t end in a knockout and only the third time he’s seen a fifth round, having defeated Curtis Harper in eight rounds last December.