Dubois’ plans for Joshua: “Turn him into an old man”

Daniel Dubois says he plans to knock Anthony Joshua out, make a “fool” of him and turn him into an “old man” in the ring this Saturday night at Wembley Stadium in London. IBF heavyweight champion Dubois (21-2, 20 KOs) says he wants to

Joshua (28-3, 25 KOs) is certainly ready to be reduced to old man status. He turns 35 in October, and hasn’t fought a live opponent since his mental breakdown against Oleksandr Usyk in August 2022.

Joshua would obviously prefer to forget that moment as it was one of the lowest points in his 11-year career.

Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, gassed him and talked about how he is back and better than when he first turned professional in 2013. Hearn talks about AJ like he’s old backwards.

If Hearn really believed that, he wouldn’t have invested the last two years of Joshua’s career and fed him four consecutive cans of tomatoes to give him a false career boost.

If Dubois knocks him out, Hearn will be faced with an impossible task: trying to rehabilitate Joshua’s image in the public eye. Hearn can’t feed Joshua four more steaming piles of stuff to fool the public because the slower ones will eventually catch up and understand the game.

The bright ones already see that Hearn tried to pull the wool over their eyes, and they are not deceived like the others.

“I’ve got to take it from him, turn him into an old man in the ring, and go out there and rip it off him,” Daniel Dubois said. DAZN Boxingdiscussing his plans for Anthony Joshua this Saturday.

Joshua is already an older fighter, and fans would have seen that if Hearn hadn’t pulled back from fighting world-class opposition after his second loss to Usyk in 2022. AJ is 34 going on 50, and he will probably be found out. Fans consider Joshua to be Frank Bruno 2.0, and he’s about to step into it on Saturday.

“I don’t think he’s the same guy,” Dubois said when asked if he believed Joshua had bounced back and was as good as he ever was after four straight wins. “People are easily swayed in this game. He fought an MMA guy (Francis Ngannou), and he fought Wallin. His last opponent, it was his second professional fight.”

Physically, Joshua cannot be the same fighter who turned pro in 2013. No matter what Hearn says about Joshua being back to his pristine self when he turned professional after his controversial gold medal in the 2012 Olympics, he is no longer that fighter. He will never be again. Joshua is like a dying star that has exhausted its hydrogen fuel and is ready to collapse.

“I aim to knock him out. I want to make a fool of him by knocking him out,” Dubois said.

If Dubois knocks Joshua out, the curtains will be pulled back to reveal AJ for what he really is. He’s not the fighter Hearn made him look with the four cans he fed him, and it’s going to be interesting to see all the casualties shocked afterwards. They will collectively say, ‘What happened to Joshua? He grew old overnight. It shouldn’t have happened.’

Joshua was never as good as boxing fans thought he was, and all you have to do is look at his fights against Wladimir Klitschko, Alexander Povetkin, Andy Ruiz Jr., and Dillian Whyte to see that from the start he off was faulty.

“It’s his husband. He carried his whole company,” Dubois said when told that Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, is already talking about him fighting for the undisputed championship. “I have to break those plans.”