By: Sean Crose
He defeated former world title challenger Bryant Jennings in 2019 by unanimous choice. It was the one and solely time any of undefeated heavyweight Joe Joyce’s fights went the space. The Londoner was final seen in October battling former world titlist Joseph Parker in a scheduled 12 rounder. The combat ended within the eleventh, courtesy of a left hand Joyce hook. Now the 15-0 rising heavyweight is making it clear that he needs to face the division’s greatest names. That means the Londoner is eyeing the likes of Tyson Fury & Oleksandr Usyk. What’s extra, he needs to face one of many two present heavyweight titlists by summer time – a time when one of many two males could be the undisputed champion of the world.
“I’m planning to have a fight in March,” Sky Sports quotes Joyce as saying, “while all the others are taking a fight.” Sure sufficient, WBC and lineal titlist Fury might certainly be going through WBA, IBF and WBO titlist Usyk within the early portion of subsequent yr, making room for a possible (“potential” being the operative phrase right here) combat between Joyce and one of many two males in the summertime. “For the summer one (I) go for a big one, like Usyk or Fury,” he stated to Sky Sports. “I’ll be ready because I’ll have had one at the beginning of the year to get me going.”
Of course, supplied Fury and Usyk really combat there might certainly be a rematch clause. It’s uncertain, nonetheless, that Joyce will sit on the sidelines till the smoke clears. “I don’t understand why people do that,” the fighter stated to Sky Sports, referring to these fighters who like to attend for an enormous combat to return to be. “It makes them rusty for when they do get the shot and also their skills as well, you always want to keep on improving your skills and learning and growing as a fighter and correcting any mistakes, and getting in these exciting fights for the fans.”
Joyce and Fury have really labored collectively earlier than. What’s extra, they labored collectively in infamous Big Bear, California whereas Fury was coaching for his inaugural match with then WBC titlist Deontay Wilder. “It’s tough in Big Bear…you have to be a tough man to be training there,” stated Joyce. “You do long rounds and runs every morning, you do lots of ab work, it really trains you to be a beast, a tank.” He’ll want fairly an arsenal if he needs to emerge victorious towards the likes of Fury and Usyk. There’s little question, nonetheless, that Joyce on the very least is armed with supreme confidence.
