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During a recent interview with GQ Magazine, Joshua was asked to address the rumors that he was knocked out in sparring by Olympian Lawrence Okolie and badly rocked in a separate session by 19-year-old heavyweight prospect Daniel Dubois.
A few months ago, David Price stated in several interviews that he practically knocked Joshua out in a past sparring session. Joshua confirmed the incident, but also stated that it happened several years ago when he was still an amateur and Price was a pro.
Joshua would neither confirm or deny the incidents with Okolie and Dubois, but he also made it known that he's not beyond the realm of taking damage during sparring sessions, and his main agenda during sparring is not to inflict maximum damage but rather to experience actual fight scenarios.
“In my code, the fighters’ code, it is not good to talk about sparring. If someone invites you to spar, they are inviting you into their secret camp, their inner circle. So I don’t think it is fair to betray that trust by talking about it... I don’t go in there to prove a point. If anything, I like to take more punishment because that is how I learn about myself," Joshua said.
"What is the point of going into sparring and beating everyone up, when in a real fight the tables might turn and I don’t know how to handle it? I want to practice what it feels like to be hit and hurt. You have to learn how to defend, to be slick when the punches are raining down.”
- See more at: Anthony Joshua on Rumors He Was Knocked Out in Sparring - Boxing News
But you going into sparring and getting KTFO and badly rocked breh, you not defending or "handling" anything
Also, you're exposing the fact you don't have a great chin over and over again, because if you can be KOd by lesser opps in SPARRING gloves.....what happens when you facing Deontay Wilder in real gloves
Anthony Bruno
Dog sparring is completely different, shyt happens. All those dudes with the 'I've never been dropped in sparring' its straight BS unless you got the best chin and defense ever. Who knows if he was on his 9th round sparring his 3rd different dude when he got dropped/knocked? And I'm farrrrr from a Joshua fan. I think Wlad can beat him.
@Black_Jesus JMM is gonna keep running away with that 1 win, but if this was true,
JMM messing the money up
They could offer JMM $1BB and he wouldn't fight Pac again, dunno if I blame him
he got probably the most famous boxing moment since 'the bite'
Breh that shyt is settled now, no point of another fight.He been running for a minute
He got that KO and wont let Pac get a rematch.....after he begged Pac to give him 3 rematches
JMM begged Pac for each of the rematches?
((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL
RIP MR. SMOKE
Canelo: Chavez Says Things Behind My Back - Not To My Face!
"I'm a man of my word, if he wants to follow through with the bet - we can make a contract," said Canelo to Edward Cauich. "I do not like to talk about people and make statements that I'm going to knock them out. The only thing I could say, is that he's made a lot of statements that he is going to knock me out, he's made memes taking shots at me. If he is so sure that he can beat me, bet everything that you're going to win. If you're so sure you're going to win, I'll bet you. Why [would I do that]? Because I do not care about the money that I'm going to win in this fight. This goes above and beyond that, this is a matter of pride. That's why I told him (to do the bet)."
"When we are men - we say things right in front of someone. That's the only thing that bothers me [about him], he says things behind my back. There is a rivalry with him that's been going on for eight years. The fight had to be done, it was now or never. Because if we didn't do it now then it was never going to be done." - See more at: Canelo: Chavez Says Things Behind My Back - Not To My Face! - Boxing News
never seen canelo this passionate before a fight. it's gonna be a fukkin massacre
"I'm a man of my word, if he wants to follow through with the bet - we can make a contract," said Canelo to Edward Cauich. "I do not like to talk about people and make statements that I'm going to knock them out. The only thing I could say, is that he's made a lot of statements that he is going to knock me out, he's made memes taking shots at me. If he is so sure that he can beat me, bet everything that you're going to win. If you're so sure you're going to win, I'll bet you. Why [would I do that]? Because I do not care about the money that I'm going to win in this fight. This goes above and beyond that, this is a matter of pride. That's why I told him (to do the bet)."
"When we are men - we say things right in front of someone. That's the only thing that bothers me [about him], he says things behind my back. There is a rivalry with him that's been going on for eight years. The fight had to be done, it was now or never. Because if we didn't do it now then it was never going to be done." - See more at: Canelo: Chavez Says Things Behind My Back - Not To My Face! - Boxing News
never seen canelo this passionate before a fight. it's gonna be a fukkin massacre
reservoirdogs
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Roy Jones Jr. To Meet With UFC, Likely To Discuss Anderson Silva
By Edward Chaykovsky
According to former four division world champion Roy Jones Jr., he has a meeting scheduled with the UFC to discuss “several things, and we’ll see what happens.”
For the last few years, Jones has been campaigning to take part in a boxing match against UFC star Anderson Silva - who also banged the drum for several years to fight Jones.
In the last few weeks, Jones and Silva have once again been trying to rile up some interest in a potential showdown on pay-per-view. They are likely influenced with the non-stop hype that surrounds a possible boxing match between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and UFC star Conor McGregor.
Jones was back in action earlier this month. The 48-year-old stopped Bobby Gunn in a one-sided fight. A few days after that bout, he challenged the 41-year-old Silva on social media, and Silva challenged him right back.
“Me and Anderson have, for five or six years now, been trying to get a boxing match between us,” Jones Jr. said to Oscar Willis of TheMacLife. “We’re two great icons of our sport, two legends, and it’s not often you get to see two legends get in the ring together. That’s been going on for the last five or six years, and if Conor and Floyd does fight, [our addition] would make it a big event.
“I mean to put us on the undercard as the co-main would be a really, really big event. Not only us fighting but people want to see a boxer versus a MMA guy.”
Jones claims that back in 2013, a deal to fight Silva was close, but then the Brazilian fighter was knocked out by Chris Weidman and all talk of a fight with Jones was dropped.
“[2013] was the closest [we got to it],” Jones Jr. said. “Had he not have lost to Weidman, I think it would have happened. … Anderson still wants it, he’s about 40 years old, he’s reaching the end of his career, he’s reaching the end of his prime zone. I’m reaching the end of my primal age, so if we’re gonna make it happen, there’s no better time than now.
“I’m thinking he’s feeling the way I’m feeling, and I know he’s been wanting to do it, because as soon as I [mentioned it] he came back and said ‘why should a man not be allowed to achieve his dream?’ and his dream is mine, it’s a great situation for both of us that we both want.”
- See more at: Roy Jones Jr. To Meet With UFC, Likely To Discuss Anderson Silva - Boxing News
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Brook Vows To Make Statement To 'Yanks' By Downing Spence
By Edward Chaykovsky
IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (36-1, 25 KOs) is a man on a mission.
The tough fighter is very motivated to make a statement against his mandatory challenger, unbeaten United States Olympian Errol Spence (21-0, 18 KOs).
A deal between the boxers was reached a few weeks ago. The fight with Spence is going to take place in late May, likely on May 27, in Brook's hometown of Sheffield.
In his last fight, Brook moved up by two weight divisions to challenge IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin last September at the O2 Arena in London.
Brook did well in the fight, but suffered a fractured orbital bone and was stopped in the fifth round. He underwent surgery and remained out of the ring for several months to recover.
Brook believes that he hasn't received the proper respect from the American boxing fans, after he traveled over to Los Angeles in 2014 to win a close twelve round decision over Shawn Porter to capture the IBF belt.
He wants to get that respect from the U.S. fans, because many of them are backing Spence to not only win but to win in style.
"I still got that fire burning deep inside. I'm looking forward to putting a showing that I'm the Special One. I think once I do the job on Errol Spence, the Americans are going to know.... because I don’t think that I’ve got the credit I deserve. I think this is going to be the fight that kind of puts me number one on the pound-for-pound list as the best fighter out there in the world," Brook told Scotty Silver of Scott TV.
"Them Yanks. When I boxed Shawn Porter... they really go over the top the Americans. I think it's well known that they really hype a job up, they really [do]. With Jeff Lacy back in the day when he boxed Joe Calzaghe - he was the best thing since sliced bread. Then he came over and got a master class from Joe Calzaghe. He made [Lacy] look like an amateur. People don’t realize that when the real Kell Brook turns up - I’m a monster. I showed that in my last fight against Golovkin with the eye injury. I put a show on."
"No one has ever done what I did to Golovkin, and he’s a big middleweight that walks through everybody. I just think he’s going to bring the best out of me, Errol Spence, because he is a talented kid. But nobody has seen how good this guy really is, and I hope that I bring the best out of him."
- See more at: Brook Vows To Make Statement To 'Yanks' By Downing Spence - Boxing News
This guy must be a troll
A UK fighter of all people criticising American for pushing "hypejobs"?
coming with Lacy again...
OGBobbyJohnson
Veteran
Yoooo these Liverpool fans cuttin up
Savage
Who in dafukk hell are you?
We just don't give a fuk
How is it settled now?
It's 2-2 after 4 fights....and officially, 2-1-1 in Pacquiao's favor with Pacquiao wanting a rematch.
So, if you heard about a Boxer getting KO'd on multiple occasions in sparring, you would say it has no bearing on his ability to take a punch during a real fight?
I disagree wholeheartedly with you. We aren't talking about being "dropped"....we talking about being knocked out. There's a difference.
They could offer JMM $1BB and he wouldn't fight Pac again, dunno if I blame him
malbaker86
Gators
Rewatched Broner - Granados just now on the treadmill and scored it Broner by a round.
Granados had NO answer for Broner's check hook. And we talked about how Granados wanted it to be 12 rounds, he was on DEAD legs the last minute of the 10th
Granados had NO answer for Broner's check hook. And we talked about how Granados wanted it to be 12 rounds, he was on DEAD legs the last minute of the 10th