Commentator Ade Oladipo wants Anthony Joshua to retire if he won’t fight Daniel Dubois in a rematch. Ade points out that the 35-year-old Joshua (28-4, 25 KOs) has “half a billion in the bank,” and he wants to see him retire with his “faculties intact”.
Joshua was brutally knocked out by IBF heavyweight champion Dubois in the fifth round on September 21 at Wembley Stadium in London. Except for a brief moment of success for Joshua in the fifth, he was beaten by the young lion Dubois (22-2, 21 KOs)
Joshua is believed to be sticking around so he can fight Tyson Fury two to three times and make even more generational money. After those two to three fights are concluded, Joshua could face Oleksandr Usyk in a trilogy match to see if he can avenge one of his two previous losses against him.
Joshua claims that he loves to fight, and he obviously enjoys the money he gets for these fights. It is unclear whether Joshua’s goal is to become the first billionaire in the history of boxing. Given AJ’s popularity and the way British fans don’t give up on their heroes when their careers sink, he has a good chance of becoming a billionaire.
That might require his promoter, Eddie Hearn, to pace him carefully, but you could argue that fighting Tyson Fury would be him doing it. Fury lacks power, and his strike resistance is 100% gone at 36 after his three fights against Deontay Wilder. Joshua will have an excellent chance to destroy Fury in two or three rounds if he jumps on him from the start like he did against Francis Ngannou.
He had won his four previous contests before losing to Dubois, but it was against fighters that his promoter, Eddie Hearn, matched him with to rebuild him after his two losses to Usyk.
“No one. No, I want him to retire. I was honest. I’m not going to change my tune on that,” Ade Oladipo said Pro Boxing Fans when asked who Anthony Joshua should fight next. “Not because I think AJ can’t compete with the other heavyweights. You can put AJ in there, but I just feel what the need is.”
If Joshua were to fight Dubois again next and get knocked out, he might consider retirement. However, with the rematch not taking place next, there is no chance of Joshua hanging up his gloves.
“If it’s not going to be the Dubois rematch,” Ade said about wanting Joshua to retire if he doesn’t fight Dubois again. “If Fury beats Usyk, does AJ fight Fury? I don’t know. The Fury fight is so big financially. I can understand why they want it. But for me, as an AJ friend, I would like to see him walk off into the sunset with all faculties (intact). What does he have, half a billion in the bank? It’s not a bad run.”
I think Joshua wants the Fury fight, and he also wants to give the fans and His Excellency Turki Alalshikh that fight. A lot of people want to see Joshua stick around to fight Fury, and he doesn’t want to let them down.
“Why does everyone want it to go on and on and on in what is such a dangerous sport? If it’s not Dubois for me, I think it should be retirement, but that’s just me,” Ade said.
Boxing fans want Joshua to continue because he brings drama to his fights. He has a Wladimir Klitschko element to his fights, where you don’t know if he’s going to knock out his opponent or get knocked out himself. He looked good until he fought Dubois, and it was a case of the wrong opponent and game plan taking away his best assets.
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