{"id":11355,"date":"2025-07-20T21:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T21:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/11355\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T21:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T21:02:07","slug":"anthony-joshua-reacts-to-oleksandr-usyk-knocking-out-daniel-dubois-for-the-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/11355\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua Reacts To Oleksandr Usyk Knocking Out Daniel Dubois For The Second Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> cemented his position as the best heavyweight of his generation with a demolition of Daniel Dubois<\/a> in their rematch.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian became a two-time undisputed heavyweight champion by beating Dubois in even more emphatic fashion than he did when they first met in 2023. On that night he stopped \u2018DDD\u2019 inside nine rounds, but this time, in front of 90,000 fans at Wembley, he knocked the Brit out four rounds earlier after a dominant performance from the first bell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One man who was a keen observer was former Usyk and Dubois foe, Anthony Joshua. Speaking to \u2018The Stomping Ground\u2019<\/a> promoter Eddie Hearn revealed his conversation with \u2018AJ\u2019 in the wake of Dubois\u2019 performance, with the former champion replying \u2018I know\u2019 when told he should have beaten \u2018DDD\u2019 when they met in September.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I spoke to AJ. I just text him and I said number 1, Usyk is unbelievable and number 2, we really should have beaten Dubois and he goes \u2018I Know\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for who\u2019s next for Joshua, who\u2019s last fight saw himself stopped by Dubois, Hearn now thinks Jake Paul is the most likely option.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think right now to be honest with you in this bizarre world where we just saw Jake Paul facing off with Oleksandr Usyk, what is going on? The pound for pound number one fighter in the world is facing off with Jake Paul.<\/p>\n

But it sounds like AJ is going to fight Jake Paul, if he\u2019s true to his word and really wants the fight, it\u2019s all very well saying \u2018he\u2019s got a weak chin and I\u2019ll knock him out\u2019, listen if he\u2019s true to his word the fight will happen. If they actually want the fight then we can do the fight that does the biggest numbers in the sport. Forget Canelo vs Crawford, that doesn\u2019t even touch the surface of AJ against Jake Paul.<\/p>\n

If you want to o the biggest numbers in the sport we\u2019ll make it happen but please be careful what you wish for, this ain\u2019t a game, this is physically dangerous, so if you want to do it be careful but we will do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another possibility for Joshua is a long-awaited clash against Tyson Fury, although \u2018The Gypsy King\u2019 has made it clear he wants one more crack at Usyk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk cemented his position as the best heavyweight of his generation with a demolition of Daniel Dubois…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-11355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}