Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois are just days away from their all-British banger at Wembley Stadium.
There are 45 knockouts out between them and, in their few losses, both have been stopped. Of course, ‘AJ’ and ‘DDD’ have lost to formerly undisputed champion Oleksandr Usyk in recent times, but there’s a lower-level shared opponent, too.
Joshua knocked out Dorian Darch in two rounds in his fourth fight. Dubois did the same in his sixth fight. Intriguingly and as if by design, there was 51 seconds left on the clock on both occasions.
Speaking to Sports Boom, Darch compared the power of the two.
“Standing next to Anthony Joshua – he’s massive – but Dubois is not that much bigger than me. Dubois did hit hard, don’t get me wrong, but he didn’t have concussive power, in my opinion … Yeah, [Joshua hits] a lot harder.
Dubois has come on leaps and bounds since the [Joe] Joyce fight, his character has been built up a lot better, I still don’t think you can develop that power, but he was young when I fought him so you never know, he might have got more powerful. But at the time I fought them both, AJ punched a lot harder.”
The 12-12 heavyweight then backed Joshua for the win.
“Dubois, even though he’s got tremendously better since he lost to Joyce, he just got caught far too much against [Filip] Hrgovic, and you can’t get caught like that against AJ, it’ll just be lights out.
I think it’s got to be early to middle Joshua knockout, I reckon. Because I don’t know if you watched Dubois’ last fight to Hrgovic… in all fairness, he took the shots, but you can’t take them shots against AJ. He took around seven to eight right hands and you just can’t physically take them off AJ.”
Should the prediction play out, ‘AJ’ will become a three-time heavyweight champion and be well placed to face the winner of the Usyk-Tyson Fury rematch this December.
