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Good points Ross

I know Joshua's cousin owns a Gym and is involved still and was involved in bulking AJ up years ago and even the sky sports team have picked up on this, he showed good hand speed before and definitely wants to keep that in his Arsenal.

Anyone else think this is a worry?
He was 230lb on his pro debut.

He is now 18lb heavier! Even for someone his size thats a lot of muscle to put on!
a 7 - 8% increase in weight in the 2-3 years after turning pro would seem normal to me for a guy of his stature. Fat heavyweights (like Fury was) you would expect them to decrease weight first (losing fat) before putting some weight back on (muscle building). Wlad was 220 in his first pro fight and two years later was 235. He was a bit younger than Joshua though but 2 years after that he was coming in at 245.Once hes not purely focusing on weight training and doing stamina work too hell be fine.