Anthony Joshua to fight Charles Martin for IBF title

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Article and Video Video: Eddie Hearn Details Charles Martin vs. Anthony Joshua - Boxing News

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Here's a question, apart from Pete Rademacher and Leon Spinks, has anyone ever fought for a heavyweight title with less fights?

Or to pit it another way ...... The guy has actually only completed 17 rounds as a professional fighter.

[IamInuit]

Here's a question, apart from Pete Rademacher and Leon Spinks, has anyone ever fought for a heavyweight title with less fights?

Or to pit it another way ...... The guy has actually only completed 17 rounds as a professional fighter.

Lol Jeanette and Mcvey went a shade below 50 in one fight. You tweaked my curiousity so I did a quick comparison. Joshua has fought 32 rounds in 15 fights. Tyson fought 22 rounds in 15

Tyson got his title shot in his 28th fight and after two back to back 10 rounders against Tillis and Green he still only fought 76 rounds.

At the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries there are all kinds of people who got shots at the title with less rounds. Some even in their debuts lol . And of course the challenges to champions when the title was not on the line in those years when only one belt existed were plenty.

[Silkeyjoe]

Martin is muck. Easy title for Joshua. KO in 2 or 3. Martin taking a payday thats all.

[Fenster]

Although the WBO title didn't have the clout it does now, Michael Bentt was having his 12th pro fight (46 rounds) when he chinned Morrison.

[nuggetdotcom]

Martin is muck. Easy title for Joshua. KO in 2 or 3. Martin taking a payday thats all.

Its all moving towards a Joshua (if he wins) versus the winner of Haye Fury fight. Three mega money boxing events, and all in the UK. And the next ten years will be carefully selected title fights against Lucas Browne or Derek Chisora (and maybe David Price).

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Sold out the O2 Arena in London in 90 seconds and yet again a Hearn promotions tickets were well over 3 times the face value within seconds of going "officially on sale"
StubHub online who the Hearns have "business interests" with have mugged off punters once again and more than tripled the gate revenue.
We had a look in work for a laugh at 2 ringside tickets going for £5,800 with a massive £900 "booking fee" ....!!!!
Yes thats £900 for a telephone operator to take your credit card details and secure your tickets which is no different to what I do daily with my account holders in work and takes no more than 2 minutes.

[Master]

Martin is unbeaten in his 24 fights but believes he has been denied the adulation that Joshua has received from the boxing world.

"I want what he's got - the praise, the attention, and the fans," the 29-year-old Missouri native said.
Anthony Joshua says he is "ready to rock and roll" when he fights American Charles Martin for the IBF world heavyweight title on 9 April.

Joshua, 26, has won all of his 15 professional fights by knockout.

Joshua told BBC Sport: "[Mike] Tyson took 28 [fights before becoming world champion], [Muhammad] Ali 20, I think Lennox [Lewis] was 24.

"Some will say it's too soon, [but] opinions are irrelevant - I have to do what I feel is right."

Martin, who beat Vyacheslav Glazkov for the vacant IBF belt in January, is unbeaten in 24 fights while Joshua most recently beat Dillian Whyte with a seventh-round knockout to claim the British heavyweight title.

"Experience is valuable," Joshua conceded. "I've been in the Olympics, big British dust-ups, I've gone through these feelings, these emotions, these expectations.

"The reason I'm here so soon is because of what I had to go through early on in my career, and what I have to take with me on 9 April [is] that belief in myself that I'm here, I'm capable and I'm ready to rock and roll."

"I don't take the glamour and all that stuff. I don't soak it in, I just go back to that tough grimy kid from the block, from the boxing gym, trying to make a way. That's what I do in preparation - go back to the roots."

Martin said Joshua had faced easy opponents in his professional career but admitted the same charge could be levelled at himself.

"The past is the past," Martin said. "The record, putting [Joshua] in with guys who were tailor-made for him to lay down - we've both had those people in our past and that doesn't matter. What matters now is there are two hungry fighters in there wanting to win."

Anthony Joshua 'ready to rock' ahead of Charles Martin world title fight - BBC Sport

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Hearn is getting tiresome.

Hes forgetting hes supposed to be promoting a fighter and not his business takings.

He sits there and starts off a presss conference to a world title fight telling everyone how quickly he sold how many tickets!!

Charles and Anthony (sounds like an early nineties regae pop band) must have been sitting there wondering what the fuck he was going on about.

Its not "Anthony Joshua has earned this title shot because of his skills and hes so very exciting".

Its "Anthony has sold me this many tickets and im going to gloat but it doesnt make Anthonys purse any bigger in anyway"

[nuggetdotcom]

Hearn is getting tiresome.

Hes forgetting hes supposed to be promoting a fighter and not his business takings.

He sits there and starts off a presss conference to a world title fight telling everyone how quickly he sold how many tickets!!

Charles and Anthony (sounds like an early nineties regae pop band) must have been sitting there wondering what the fuck he was going on about.

Its not "Anthony Joshua has earned this title shot because of his skills and hes so very exciting".

Its "Anthony has sold me this many tickets and im going to gloat but it doesnt make Anthonys purse any bigger in anyway"

You and Master are both right of course, what a state! I have to say I hope Joshua wins just to keep the title UK side, sad.

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Ive watched some highlights of Martin and he has a wide open defense, low hands and seems very flat on his feet, ok he has power but I think this could be an easy few rounds for AJ and a win by KO.
A bit miffed at why he's come out publicly and said he wants to use Vitali Klitschko for "advice" before April?
Id have gone straight to Lennox for any advice on how to operate inside and outside the ring at world level.

[Master]

Ive watched some highlights of Martin and he has a wide open defense, low hands and seems very flat on his feet, ok he has power but I think this could be an easy few rounds for AJ and a win by KO.
A bit miffed at why he's come out publicly and said he wants to use Vitali Klitschko for "advice" before April?
Id have gone straight to Lennox for any advice on how to operate inside and outside the ring at world level.

AJ and klit brothers go back a long way. They have a connection with him that Lennox does not.

[IamInuit]

Nobody really knows anything about Martin and yet he's dismissed outright as an opponent. He's got an above average jab, moves fairly well, can punch like a brick shit house and is a southpaw. His comp has been equal or better than Joshua's group and he's much better than anyone Anthony has fought. Unless Martin does not lay a glove on him and the fight turns into a Joshua highlight reel this could be one hell of a fight. The guys got a 90% ko ratio has put people to sleep and has never been down. Oh sure you can say Anthony has a 100% ratio but the devils in the details. I like Joshua, he's great for the division but I have this feeling that his chin is his achillies heel.

[p4pking]

That's sort of the way I see it to, Martin is actually the less proven of these guys. Joshua is a lot more explosive/strong, so I wouldn't be surprised to see him get an early stoppage, but Martin also might prove to have a chin or be a lot craftier than you could guess. He's a huge guy who looks to fight with substance, he's a lefty with big power who's never had a tough fight himself, it's a fun match up.

[Master]

Martin is doing a big media campaign over here and doing a lot of interviews. He seems a nice guy and selling the ppv fight really well.