Anthony Joshua already ‘in talks’ over next fight after brutal Daniel Dubois KO loss leaves career on the brink

ANTHONY JOSHUA has already held talks implicit his adjacent determination pursuing his demolition astatine the hands of Daniel Dubois.

The erstwhile two-time unified heavyweight champion suffered a brutal fifth-round KO decision to his erstwhile sparring spouse astatine Wembley past month.

Joshua, 34, has seemingly acceptable his sights connected an contiguous rematch with the IBF king, who dropped him a staggering FOUR TIMES connected his mode to a career-best win.

And promoter Eddie Hearn has revealed the Watford warrior has already held discussions with Saudi boxing supremo Turki Alalshikh implicit his next move.

During an quality connected talkSPORT, helium said: "If it is up to AJ, the rematch is 100 per cent on. He's like, 'Let maine astatine him, I cognize I tin bushed him'.

"But we volition speech internally arsenic a squad and counsel him connected what is best, I deliberation we are leaning towards the contiguous rematch and I deliberation it is going to beryllium hard to person AJ otherwise.

"Those talks began a mates of days aft the combat and we volition beryllium down with His Excellency successful Riyadh adjacent week.

"As a team, we had a gathering this morning with 258 MGt (Joshua's management), and spoke to Ben Davison past night."

Joshua pursued contiguous rematches with Andy Ruiz Jr and Oleksandr Usyk aft losing to the brace successful 2019 and 2021 respectively.

And Hearn admits it volition beryllium hard to person AJ to prosecute thing different than contiguous revenge against Dubois.

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The Matchroom Boxing main said: "It's up to america to provender backmost to AJ our thoughts and helium volition marque the last decision.

"And it volition beryllium precise hard for him not to effort and privation to bushed Daniel Dubois."

Scores of combat fans person called for Joshua to bring the curtain down connected his glittering vocation pursuing his crushing nonaccomplishment to Dubois.

But AJ has nary volition of hanging up his gloves immoderate clip soon, saying successful his post-fight interview: "Before I came here, I'm ever saying to myself, 'I'm a combatant for life.'

"We rolled the dice astatine occurrence and we came up abbreviated and we rotation it again. We support rolling the dice."

"We came up short," AJ said a fewer days later. "But we person to look astatine each the positives.

"That's the mindset and the position we person to have. Look what we person achieved successful 11 years, it's phenomenal.

"I privation to convey each azygous 1 of you who has been riding with me.

"What a rollercoaster travel - and you cognize what the occupation is? It's acold from implicit yet."