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Anthony Joshua vs. TBA update
Still no announcement for a new opponent for former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua this Saturday. Original foe Dillian Whyte was ruled out due to an adverse finding for a banned substance. Matchroom is hoping to save the card, which also has three additonal heavyweight bouts including Filip Hrgovic vs. Demsey McKean, Derek Chisora vs. Gerald Washington, and Johnny Fisher vs. Harry Armstrong. The event will stream on DAZN if it happens.
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OK latest on the vine is Helenius
could be good- he just fought a bum himself so been in camp and will be ready- he can hit bloody hard but expect him to fall 3-4 rounds
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Back to back fights for him, all within a couple of weeks? Better than Chisora I guess.
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Helenius confirmed. Follow me for more inside knowledge lol
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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/aug/08/anthony-joshua-to-face-robert-helenius-at-o2-arena-after-whyte-cancellation-boxing
Sounds like that was the plan all along, with Helenius to take a warm-up beforehand to stay active for AJ. And heaps less money that Whyte.
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Hrgovic-McKean heats up
Unbeaten IBF #1, WBA #8, WBO #13, WBC #15 heavyweight Filip Hrgovic (15-0, 12 KOs) and unbeaten IBF #13, WBO #14 Demsey McKean (22-0, 14 KOs) traded barbs before their twelve-rounder on Saturdays’ Joshua-Helenius stream on DAZN from London:
Demsey McKean: “He waffles on about ‘who has he knocked out that I haven’t knocked out?’ Well, who has he decisively beaten? He only has Zhilei Zhang and that was a controversial decision, so we have similar CVs as each other. He’s a good fighter, I just think I have the tools to beat him and give him a hell of a night.”
Filip Hrgovic: We will see – anything is possible in boxing and life. But I don’t see how he can beat me. He’s had 22 fights before, but I don’t see anything special in his game and as I said before, it’s one thing to be confident, but another to be delusional.
“I am glad the fight with Zhang happened, I didn’t look very well, but I know that was my worst night, but I beat a good fighter, you saw what he did to Joe Joyce, he showed he’s a top ten heavyweight and on my worst night I beat him. That’s good that I had that performance and people can underestimate me, because I know that I can do much better and I didn’t take this fight with Demsey lightly and I am ready for anything.”
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