Anthony Joshua, whats not to like?

[porkypara]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvan...ature=youtu.be

Great the way he spends time with these kids, a lot of sports stars would not have bothered.

[Master]

AJ is a genuine good guy outside the ring and a bad ass inside.

Almost everything so far in his career is running like clockwork.

[smashup]

Brilliant role model and extremely fan friendly and marketable.

FACT - Josh is THE ONLY stand alone PPV fighter on the planet in ANY combat sport - He doesn't need a "Dance Partner" to sell out a Stadium......

Doesn't matter who he is fighting he can fill a 90,000 capacity stadium on his own and ticket demand for his fights these days prove he could probably double those ticket sales

[Batman]

I don't know what it is with him, he does come across as a good guy and I don't dislike him but I can't get on with him the way most do.

I think it's the blatant media training, I'd like to see how fan friendly he is when he's got his mates around him and no cameras, sky have built the absolute perfect package in him but if like to see a slightly more human/mortal side to him.

I found Ricky Hatton a lot more appealing because he was more relatable than AJ, I'd also like to see AJ get beat not because I dislike him but because of be interested to see him rebuild after defeat.
It'd also be interesting to see how much love he gets after being proven to not be invincible.

[Kirkland Laing]

I don't know what it is with him, he does come across as a good guy and I don't dislike him but I can't get on with him the way most do.

I think it's the blatant media training, I'd like to see how fan friendly he is when he's got his mates around him and no cameras, sky have built the absolute perfect package in him but if like to see a slightly more human/mortal side to him.

I found Ricky Hatton a lot more appealing because he was more relatable than AJ, I'd also like to see AJ get beat not because I dislike him but because of be interested to see him rebuild after defeat.
It'd also be interesting to see how much love he gets after being proven to not be invincible.

He is very scripted. He's a marketable commodity and there's a committe of PR people responsible for everything from stuff like that video to the words that come out of his mouth in public. Eventually with the passage of time all that stuff is only so successful and you get to see the man and the character gradually revealed. It may take a while though.

Good luck to him though.

[El Kabong]

In other words AJ ain't spicy enough for Batman and Kirkland. AJ needs to have some personality to him, some edge. The Brits were 110% behind Hatton because Hatton was relateable he was the badass from the local pub who made it big. AJ has been packaged much the way Lennox Lewis was and the Brits were slow to warm to him as well. I can see that. I can see that being the case with Wilder too. Wilder is more himself than AJ but still not a magnetic or relatable personality.


The good news for fight fans is that their styles are relatable and magnetic. I mean they aren't built for a long time at the top but they're going to be exciting for the moment.