Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn has said possibly the shrewdest thing out of anyone here after the Dubois knockout loss below.
Timing is everything in professional sport and life. Sometimes, sure, you can put the foot on the gas if you want to right now and do great things right now, if you want.
But sometimes it is just better to wait, hang back, chill and Eddie Hearn is spot on with this for Anthony Joshua to wait until after Dec 21:
We live in an animal-like, depraved, humans being less than dogs time in humanity at the moment, but professional sport amid all the mayhem and mucus and slime is a beaming light of greatness and a diamond amid evil garbage.
Boxing does this better than any professional sport and class acts like athletes Joshua and sports promoters Hearn above must be commended in the UK and by their government who would do well to fund more boxing programs after frankly such a spectacular success of an event for society at large last weekend — with 98,000 plus fans at Wembley Stadium leaving happy after seeing maybe the best fight they had ever seen in their lives.
Let all that sink in.
Hearn is not always spot on, mind you, he is the best sports promoter in the world along with Dana White, granted, but a respectful observation came from US boxing star Devin Haney at the weekend mentioning Hearn sometimes is too friendly with fighters and then is not friends with them when time to make a deal happens. Whereas Bob Arum is more up front in that regard. Never pretending to be best friends with people, sure, friendly with everyone but not friends with everyone, there is a difference.
A man who is friends with everyone is an enemy to himself.
Hearn has proven himself the world over now and is genuine upon balanced non-biased analysis, however.
Why would pound for pound future great in the making Shakur Stevenson of Newark sign with him and his organization Matchroom otherwise?
Think about that Haney.
