Anthony Joshua is “Chinny” says Kell Brook

Former welterweight champion Kell Brook agrees with Carl Froch about Anthony Joshua being “kinny” after seeing him quickly dismantled by IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois in a fight that looked more like a massacre than ‘ a competitive clash that fans expected it to be.

Brook feels that former two-time champion Joshua (28-4, 25 KOs) can’t take a shot well, which is an understatement. Froch believes AJ’s problems with his weakening punch resistance date back to his knockout loss to Andy Ruiz Jr. in June 2019, but of course they were there much earlier.

Dillian Whyte hurt Joshua in their showdown in 2015 and 41-year-old Wladimir Klitschko in 2017. In 2011, Mihai Nistor knocked out Joshua in the 39th European Amateur Boxing Championships.

Those three fights showed that Joshua had a chin problem long before Dubois got to him on September 21st. It’s just that AJ’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, kept him out of the way for most of his career by selectively matching him.

“I do think he’s a big chinny. I know it’s heavyweight boxing, but he can’t seem to land a shot very well. This is very noticeable. You can see it in his body. His legs go, and everything else. You can still see it. I do think he’s a big chinny,” said Kell Brook Pro Boxing Fansresponding to Carl Froch saying Anthony Joshua’s punching resistance has gone since his loss to Andy Ruiz Jr. in June 2019.

Clearly Joshua can’t hold a punch, and fans would have seen what I noticed if they had their eyes open. You could see that Joshua fought solid fights his whole career, and he got away with it because the public were casual fans of the sport.

The die-hard fans understood what Joshua’s career was all about and were not fooled by the way Hearn made him look. He turned himself into a manufactured star, but with no substance. He was a product to be sold to the public.

“I think he needs to regroup and come back with a vengeance because if it was me I would have been crushed,” Brook said of Joshua. “I will do everything in my power to right that wrong and turn it around. He left his chin exposed. I don’t think he boxed very well,” Brook said of Joshua.

I don’t know if Brook believes that Joshua can “turn it around” against Dubois. You could tell Joshua was hurt from the first round and was still shaken up every time Dubois connected cleanly.

Joshua can take on the lesser heavyweights that Hearn beat him against recently. It’s within Joshua’s power, but he can’t beat fighters like Dubois or Martin Bakole. He can probably beat Tyson Fury because he’s washed out, old, slow and can’t punch. However, by the time Joshua fights him, Tyson will be coming off back-to-back losses against Oleksandr Usyk, and beating him won’t mean much.

“I thought Dubois had a brilliant jab, and he did exactly what he needed to do in that fight,” Brook said. “He took care of Joshua pretty quickly. From round one he got hurt and jumped on him from there. This is a fight we need to see again immediately. It’s a battle of ‘What’s going to happen this time.’ Everyone is going to tune in for that.”

People will definitely tune in to see a rematch between Joshua and Dubois, but it won’t end well for AJ. Dubois will revisit his fight with Joshua and wants to improve his performance by starting the rematch faster. Joshua’s punch resistance will not have improved, and he will be destroyed within a few rounds. Retirement will be Joshua’s only option after that loss.

“Of course he does. He just beat Anthony Joshua,” Brook said when asked if Daniel Dubois has a chance to beat Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk. “He has now placed his name among the very best in the world.

“He’s a multi-millionaire overnight, and I’m proud. He made himself after that fight. Now, he has a rematch for big money. All those top boys are going to tune in to see him,” Brook said of Dubois.