Eddie Hearn Believes Daniel Dubois Makes Too Many Mistakes For Anthony Joshua
Eddie Hearn is confident his fighter Anthony Joshua will become the IBF heavyweight champion when he boxes Daniel Dubois.
Joshua is coming off a KO win over Francis Ngannou and given that Joshua has lost three times now, Hearn says that has helped him. The boxer is no longer afraid of losing, which allows Joshua to fight more freely.
“The vibe that I get is that the fear is not really there any more – of losing,” said Hearn. “I think because of the [Andy] Ruiz defeat and because of the [Oleksandr] Usyk defeats and because you’ve experienced it before, it’s not like, ‘Oh well, if it happens it happens’, but you’ve been there. You’ve experienced that. You know how much it hurts. We don’t look at this fight and say, ‘The pressure’s on, because if you lose to Dubois what could happen?’”
Anthony Joshua enters his September 21 bout as a sizeable betting favorite to defeat Daniel Dubois. Although Joshua is the challenger, many expect him to win, as Eddie Hearn says Dubois makes too many mistakes.
“They will know exactly what Daniel Dubois does. They will know exactly when he makes a mistake, when he moves and when he’s open to be countered, and it’s just repetition and when he fully gets the game plan and when he’s fully drilled, I think he’s unbeatable. And that’s how we feel at the moment. We really feel like everything that we’re seeing in the training camp and everything that Lee and Ben are drilling is exactly what’s going to happen on September 21st. Because that’s exactly what we saw against Wallin. It’s exactly what we saw against [Francis] Ngannou.
“And with all due respect to Dubois – who’s a dangerous guy – he makes mistakes and he’s not a difficult fighter to work out. What he does have is he’s very strong, and he can punch and he’s physically a problem. But he makes a lot of mistakes and when you analyse a fighter like that, it’s not hard for the minds of Ben Davison and Lee Wylie to figure out the game plan of how you beat this guy, in my opinion.”
Joshua vs. Dubois will take place at Wembley Stadium.
