Why Joshua can beat anybody in the world - Eubank Jr

When you are a marquee sanction similar Anthony Joshua, determination is nary 'this is it'.

'AJ' is simply a maverick. He has been capable to bash things cipher has done. He has paved the mode for different fighters.

He could suffer to Daniel Dubois connected Saturday and everybody would inactive privation to spot him combat Tyson Fury. That volition not change.

Of course, decision volition beryllium damaging to Joshua's estimation and vocation but it is not thing helium could not bounce backmost from. He has done it before.

To support the momentum and wider involvement successful the bigger fights going, however, helium has to win, and I deliberation helium will.

Joshua is excessively experienced, excessively beardown and his boxing IQ volition beryllium excessively precocious for Dubois. It is simply a cliche but determination are levels to the crippled and Joshua is conscionable a fewer excessively galore levels supra Dubois.

The breathtaking happening astir heavyweight boxing, though, is that they are truthful big, beardown and almighty that adjacent erstwhile determination are levels, each it takes is 1 punch and it is over.

I person known Joshua for years and person been to truthful galore of his fights. We person ever stayed successful touch.

Our journeys person been somewhat antithetic but we some faced unit aboriginal successful our careers.

I tin subordinate to what helium has gone done and you thin to gravitate towards guys who are connected that aforesaid level.

Joshua came retired of the Olympics arsenic a heavyweight golden medallist and, rightly so, became the poster lad of British boxing. Everybody was down him.

For maine it was a antithetic benignant of scrutiny. I was a Eubank, carrying my father's legendary name, but I was an chartless entity and a batch of radical did not privation maine to win oregon judge successful me.

I had to beryllium those guys incorrect implicit the years.

But arsenic you turn older and get much experienced, you realise that what radical expect of you and the unit that they enactment connected you really does not matter.

As agelong arsenic you are contented and tin look astatine yourself successful the reflector and accidental you did your best, that is what matters.

Family matters. Being a bully human-being and respected matters. Not the critics oregon the haters. If you go obsessed with trying to delight them, you volition ne'er win.

Joshua is decidedly astatine a signifier and property present wherever helium has been done it, seen it, heard it and done it all.

He does not attraction what radical think, present it is each astir solidifying his bequest and making the wealth which volition past him, his household and generations to come.

The mode Dubois has travel backmost from defeats by Joe Joyce and Oleksandr Usyk and improved has been impressive.

He has shown a never-give-up cognition and I truly bash respect that.

I person had losses and it is not easy. You spell into the ringing with doubts and acheronian thoughts.

So to get implicit that is simply a immense testament to Dubois' character.

There was a confrontation backmost successful June wherever Joshua felt Dubois was disrespecting him.

I genuinely bash not deliberation Dubois is the benignant of combatant who would disrespect people, but however overmuch respect tin you springiness to idiosyncratic you are going to effort and instrumentality their caput off?

Dubois is up against an improved Joshua who volition outgun him successful excessively galore antithetic departments. I person seen the advancement helium has made since the Usyk losses.

Joshua has been engaged with 3 fights past twelvemonth and Dubois volition beryllium his 2nd of 2024.

Activity is truthful important to becoming a amended fighter. It is thing I americium benignant of annoyed astatine successful my ain career, that I person not been progressive implicit the past year.

If Joshua goes into a combat with the close mindset past helium has the skills to bushed anybody successful the world, and I would ever backmost my feline against Fury.

Fury mislaid to Usyk and showed helium is not unbeatable oregon invincible. Joshua is astute capable to look astatine what Usyk did, spot the holes successful Fury's crippled and bash the aforesaid happening erstwhile they stock a ringing - which I americium definite they will.

The Fury speech is for the future. For now, the absorption is connected Dubois and Joshua and they should bask reaching the pinnacle of boxing this weekend.

If you tin header astatine Wembley Stadium, you person made it. It does not get bigger than that.

Chris Eubank Jr was speaking to BBC Sport's Kal Sajad.