Joe Joyce once compared Oleksandra Usyk’s blows to “flaps” when he called the most challenging impact he met. The British bulky scale returns to the ring on Saturday, when he plays the Croatian Filip Hrgovica in the clash of Make-Or Break in Manchester.
39-year-old Joyce knows that the fourth professional failure would mean the end of his boxing career at the highest level. Juggernaut suffered losses from the Chinese giant Zhilei Zhang before defeat with Derek Chisora. Joyce was in the ring with many contemporary great, whether in the ranks of Pro, amateurs or sparring. Before moving to paid ranks, he fought the current world champion in three stripes in five rounds.
Although impressed by the insidious Ukrainian, when he suffered a defeat at Hall Bethnal Green in York Hall, Joyce claims that he was not overwhelmed by his power.
Talking with Queensberry promotions In 2023 he explained: “I remember when we fought, it was like baking power – it wasn’t a bang.
“I could feel the blows. You know how spanking, they are more prickly? Faster and more prickly. But I think he is now a larger size, so they will be more striking and knocked out people.”
In the same interview, Joyce called the most challenging impact he met with, and he was the current owner of another world of the heavyweight belt Daniel Dubois. Joyce assured her British rival in November 2020.
“Everyone hit me the same. However, I remember Dubois,” Joyce recalled before the fighting with Zhang and Chisora. “My face after the fight was like” Ahh “. His blows … Although he didn’t have time to put his feet and really settle in his arrows. It is simply raw, striking, natural power.
“He eats all the chickens, and then goes to bed! That’s what he did in the GB team, so he probably does similar now.”
Usyk and Dubois could fight for the second time in a potential duel of unification of heavyweight. For Joyce to come back to fight the great fight, he must first deal with Hrgovic and impress.
“I want to get to the top of the mountain and get gold at the end of the rainbow this time,” Joyce said before the fight. “It’s never too overdue. You’re as good as your last win and you can quickly go back to the top and that’s what I’m planning to do.”
Speaking about Froch on the fights podcastiesTwo -time super middle WBC champion said: “Fury, if he comes out of a pension, the only fight will really be compelling for fans, the only fight I want to see personally is that he is fighting Anthony Joshu.
“But it will be the one that people want to see. He will probably still fill Wembley, but as a boxing purist, as a lover of this sport, did I worry if Tyson Fury never enters the ring with Anthony Joshua? I will be candid, I will not.
“AJ was flattened, ironed several times. We saw him lost to Andy Ruiz, he lost his soul and never regained it. He returned with Jermaine Franklin, Robert Heleniusz, he also defeated Otto Wallin, and then Francis Ngannou, MMA Fighter.
“These four fights really flattered AJ, but they never really tested him. He was never planted at Kosh, he never had to fight there with anyone who was swinging, tried to take him. The moment he was coming with someone who was alive, with a pulse that tried to do him, what happened, what happened?
The defeat of Joshua by Dubois was his fourth professional boxing career. While he was detained by Andy Ruiz in his first failure of his career, the loss with his friend with the British did not return to Count 10 for the first time. Froch believes that Joshua may be too mentally damaged by this fight to accept a warrior as unsafe as Fury, despite the fact that the latter came from two losses for Usyk.
Froch added: “It was a final career performance. It was a finish. It was, mentally, physically, he had been in the ring for a long time. It will be between September and Grudt for a year when Anthony Joshua will return.
“He also talks about the elbow surgery, so if he has an elbow surgery, he will throw him to the next two or three months. The way he occurred against the Utyk, and then was flattened by Dubois, I just feel that he is a disaster waiting for the event.
“For me it is an uncomplicated win for a cart. For me I don’t care who wins, I don’t have a favorite for this fight. Tyson Fury is in better shape. He had stinking against Ngannou, but his two fights with Uyk show me that he still has it and is still good enough and is still capable.”
Conor Benn was called by Shakur Stevenson photo: Dave Thompson Matchroom Boxing
Conor Benn has been a man sought after since his brave effort against Chris Eubank Jr.
Benn jumped into two grades for medium weight to face Eubank Jr, losing unanimous decision At the Tottenham Hotspur stadium last month.
The “destroyer” is obliged to re -face Brighton and he is expected to do it in September.
However, the 28-year-old was called by several rivals in the whole pond, including Ryan Garcia and Rolly Romero, who defeated the last one in Modern York at the beginning of this month.
Benn was now attacked by the world champion in three importance, Shakur Stevenson, who defends his lightweight title of the WBC world before William Zedała in Modern York on July 12.
Eubank and Benn gushed him in a thriller (photo: Mark Robinson Matchroom Boxing)
In a recent interview Stevenson said he would move three classes of weight to face the man Essex.
“I just watched Conor Benn,” said Stevenson about Breakfast club.
Newark has doubled an explanation in social media, to be directly speaking to Benn: “I’m going to separate you.
“Too piercing, too much speed, too wise.
Stevenson next to Hearn Photo Credit: Mark Robinson Matchroom Boxing
“And a massive shot will be the last thing you do.”
Benn answered the 27-year-old, saying: “Do you want to do this next Shakur?
“Let’s start it. Without economical conversations.”
Eddie Hearn, who promotes both men, flew to Modern York on Thursday for a starting conference for Stevenson’s Clash with Zepeda and he told boxing fans pro On Wednesday, he contacted Stevenson to fight Benne.
“I talked to him earlier, he wants it,” revealed Hearn.
“I said,” Let’s look tomorrow, but first you have Zeda. “
“Everyone wants to fight Conor Bennem.
“He is in an incredible position and is ready to fight everyone.”
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