Anthony joshua sent warning from trainer as tyson fury fight looms

Anthony joshua sent warning from trainer as tyson fury fight looms


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Anthony Joshua has been warned by his trainer Joby Clayton he can't box in the same fashion he did in his first clash with Andy Ruiz Jr. Last June, Ruiz Jr turned the boxing world


upside down by handing Joshua his first professional loss in devastating fashion. In front of a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden, Ruiz Jr brought about the end of Joshua's first


reign as unified heavyweight champion with a seventh-round stoppage victory. In the wake of his maiden loss, Joshua was widely criticised for implementing a poor game plan against the


shorter and less mobile Ruiz. Instead of making use of his height and reach advantages and boxing on the outside, Joshua unwisely chose to stand and trade with Ruiz Jr in the pocket - which


ultimately proved to be his undoing. Joshua rectified that mistake in his rematch with Mexico's first heavyweight champion in their rematch last December, which he won via unanimous


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for having the discipline in that moment especially when you bear in mind it was such a short amount of time to adjust." Joshua, 30, is tentatively scheduled to defend his unified


titles against Kubrat Pulev at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on July 25. A multi-million-pound showdown with his WBC counterpart Tyson Fury, however, is currently the talk of the boxing


world. All that remains for the long-awaited Battle of Britain to come to fruition is for the pair to win their respective bouts with Pulev and Deonaty Wilder. The emphatic manner in which


Fury dethroned Wilder in February, coupled with Joshua's performance in his first clash with Ruiz Jr, has led many to believe 'The Gypsy King' will come out of the blockbuster


fight victorious. Clayton is all too aware of those writing off Joshua's chances of defeating Fury, who he reckons will bring out the best in the Olympian. "Fury has always shown


himself to be a very versatile athlete," Clayton said. "Sometimes he’s just fought southpaw, the fight he got cut he had to go at mid-range and break the guy down at mid-range –


he’s always shown himself to be a fantastically versatile athlete. "These are the challenges you’re faced with when you want to be called a great. These are the levels you have to raise


to. "I talk strongly about the energy frequency of world-class. Greatness has its own energy frequency. "The likes of Muhammad Ali, George Foreman and Joe Frazier – those guys


they functioned on a different level. "If you want to be mentioned in the same sentence as those guys, you have to function on a different level. I think it will bring out the best in


both Fury and AJ."