Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
I believe in Joe Hendry
- Oct 4, 2003
- 12,054
So glad it was at Wembley in-front of proper punters, not that shit show in Saudi. Wtf was the Saudi national anthem played before the fight
Because it was basically sponsored by the Saudi government under their Riyadh Season banner. So the anthem was played to keep their paymasters sweet.
AJ should've just retired with his millions following that embarrassing meltdown after the Usyk fight. Surprised he even showed his face in public again after that... He surely won't get another big, meaningful fight now.
The ref was not great tonight with the two harsh reprimands on Dubois and claiming 'no knockdown' for what was clearly a knockdown?! I think he just couldn't believe Joshua had gone down like that twice in quick succession. Or he was just always going to favour him, either or, it made not a shit of difference. Now let's see Dubois face some proper competition (I'm guessing Usyk).
Ref was awful. He also missed AJs gloves touching the ring during one barrage of punches. That should have been a knockdown, although AJ did go down a few seconds later.
He definitely seemed to get the no knockdown wrong too, but I wasn’t convinced the count just before that should have been given as that looked more like a slip to me. I haven’t seen any replays though.
All the pre fight talk was around Dubois having all this power but he wouldn’t be able to land it as AJs movement would be too good. Then AJ came out looking like he has lead in his boots, slow, zero movement and just a static target for Triple D to hit whenever he wanted.
Last edited: