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I'm still in shock how bad that ref was. I'm trying to think of a worse Boxing referee performance but I genuinely can't.

The 4th round was bad enough. Then he out-does himself by going the full 10 count whilst AJ is too busy faceplanting the floor, didn't even wave the fight off ffs :D

The french Bloks who did Benn McClellen
 
I'm still in shock how bad that ref was. I'm trying to think of a worse Boxing referee performance but I genuinely can't.

The 4th round was bad enough. Then he out-does himself by going the full 10 count whilst AJ is too busy faceplanting the floor, didn't even wave the fight off ffs :D
Two very questionable calls. When he was sat on the ropes he was out. Then the slip.

Dubois does the forearm thing but gets pulled. Fury does it all the time.
 
Two very questionable calls. When he was sat on the ropes he was out. Then the slip.

Dubois does the forearm thing but gets pulled. Fury does it all the time.

Completely forgot about the slip. I just can't get over how AJ's doing his best Raygun impression and the ref's carrying on counting
 
Dubois battered him, but boxing a bit of a joke unfortunately. 2 people fighting for a title that neither of them earned, having a boxing association remove a belt from a unified champion weeks after unifying all of the belts.

Ridiculous. Tyson Fury sat his arse on his belt for how long? 3 title defences in 3 years, 1 of which was against a handpicked near-40 year old that he'd easily beaten twice prior.
Different belts and different reasons though. The IBF are very strict on mandatory defences - the last time anyone defended the IBF against their mandatory challenger was Joshua vs Pulev in Covid times in 2020. The WBO (AJ vs Usyk), WBC (Fury vs Whyte) and WBA (Usyk vs Dubois) have all been defended against mandatory challengers since then, nobody could say the IBF aren't due a defence.

Fury was also stripped of the IBF within a week of winning it in 2015 for the same reason - he was contracted to the Klitschko rematch and unable to fulfil his mandatory defence. The IBF's mandatory challenger at the time was Vyacheslav Glazkov who faced Charles Martin for the vacant title, got injured and had to pull out in the 3rd round. Martin became champion by default then lost to Joshua in his first defence. Whereas Fury made a mandatory defence of the WBC in April 2022 vs Whyte, the WBC then ordered a final eliminator between Wilder and Ruiz in 2023 but Ruiz bottled it so couldn't punish him for not defending when he didn't have a challenger.
 
You're spot on there. I also wish inoue would fight outside of Japan. The Saudis should be all over him
Inoue is amazing fighter. Hes got the belts so people need to come to him.

Im sure if money was mad hed fight outside Japan but hea earned the position to say no, you come here.

Theres nothing stopping a major event in japan, it has stadiums, infrastructure why not hold an event there?

I lived there for a year and it's incredible. Went to sumo tournament and that is a sight to behold. Also went to MMA tournament, another great show. Met don frye and few others. Don frye couple of inches taller than me, bout 5x the size of me.
 
Inoue is amazing fighter. Hes got the belts so people need to come to him.

Im sure if money was mad hed fight outside Japan but hea earned the position to say no, you come here.

Theres nothing stopping a major event in japan, it has stadiums, infrastructure why not hold an event there?

I lived there for a year and it's incredible. Went to sumo tournament and that is a sight to behold. Also went to MMA tournament, another great show. Met don frye and few others. Don frye couple of inches taller than me, bout 5x the size of me.
They are holding massive events there with him headlining. They just do it differently. Quiet respectful crowds as you will have experienced while living there.

Japan is a dominant force currently in the very light weight classes so will be more appreciated over there than in the US or the UK.
 
They are holding massive events there with him headlining. They just do it differently. Quiet respectful crowds as you will have experienced while living there.

Japan is a dominant force currently in the very light weight classes so will be more appreciated over there than in the US or the UK.
Cant argue with that, but again if he's getting well paid where hes at why bother?
 
Inoue is amazing fighter. Hes got the belts so people need to come to him.

Im sure if money was mad hed fight outside Japan but hea earned the position to say no, you come here.

Theres nothing stopping a major event in japan, it has stadiums, infrastructure why not hold an event there?

I lived there for a year and it's incredible. Went to sumo tournament and that is a sight to behold. Also went to MMA tournament, another great show. Met don frye and few others. Don frye couple of inches taller than me, bout 5x the size of me.

I point this out often but it's generally ignored, but over the past 5 years he's fought outside of Japan 3 times. Yes, it would be good to get him on some big cards with British and yank fighters, but it's something people exclusively seem to expect of him but don't cry about Canelo, Crawford etc. He's also potentially on the verge of a Japanese mega fight and already collecting nice purses.

He will be back in Vegas or on a Saudi card in one of his next couple fights most likely.
 
Happy to see the monster fight anywhere tbh. As long as on TV. But would be great to see him on one of the massive cards I’d expect we’ll see in 2025 from the Saudi fund.
 
See, THIS is a low blow

Under the belt - not bang in the middle of it. Yet no rolling around on the floor by AJ though. Makes you think....
 
I'm still in shock how bad that ref was. I'm trying to think of a worse Boxing referee performance but I genuinely can't.

The 4th round was bad enough. Then he out-does himself by going the full 10 count whilst AJ is too busy faceplanting the floor, didn't even wave the fight off ffs :D
He waved the fight off and then changed it to a slip as well earlier.
 
Joshua didn't have a rematch clause
Any source on that? Eddie seemed to imply he did on the night. I mean, it sounds bonkers for a challenger to get a rematch clause, but it was certainly DDD's biggest purse to date, so I can see why he would do it.
 
Any source on that? Eddie seemed to imply he did on the night. I mean, it sounds bonkers for a challenger to get a rematch clause, but it was certainly DDD's biggest purse to date, so I can see why he would do it.
It’s a funny one, Frank reckons Joshua had it in his contract but Dubois didn’t have it in his.
 
Just rewatch the fight for the first time since Saturday, the champion walking first made me want the challenger to get beat, the Saudi national anthem made me want to turn it off completely wrong.

As for the fight Joshua was scared and hesitant from the first jab and backhand landing within 30 seconds, his feet stopped moving with him into attacks and away with him in defence, he panicked into not setting up attacks and was throwing naked back hands and lost his head at the end of the first round quite literally how he didnt see that shot coming was unbelievable.

That was a worse performance than Ruiz 1 for me and he’ll never have imagined getting such a battering in his career ever.

He should hope and pray for Wilder/Bakole/Fury next and stay the hell away from Dubois or simply retire
 

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