{"id":20586,"date":"2019-12-03T07:01:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T07:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=20586"},"modified":"2019-12-03T07:01:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T07:01:22","slug":"hearn-joshua-wants-to-claim-back-what-is-rightfully-his","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=20586","title":{"rendered":"Hearn: Joshua wants to claim back what is rightfully his"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small>Photo by Richard Heathcote\/Getty Images<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Joshua will get a chance to take back his three major world titles this weekend in Saudi Arabia. <\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s fight week! And leading into this Saturday&rsquo;s heavyweight rematch between Andy Ruiz Jr. and Anthony Joshua, Matchroom promoter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/boxing\/news\/12183\/11876320\/ruiz-jr-vs-joshua-2-eddie-hearn-says-anthony-joshua-is-primed-to-deliver-memorable-performance\">Eddie Hearn tells Sky Sports<\/a> that Joshua has prepared better than even to win back his world title belts &mdash; despite some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldboxingnews.net\/2019\/12\/02\/anthony-joshua-sparring-partner-trouble\/\">more rumors that Joshua has had a tough time during a recent sparring session<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;He wants to claim back what is rightfully his.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He has gone from being a much-loved superstar to &lsquo;Joshua is overrated&rsquo;. This is a good man. He has given his life to the sport. Don&rsquo;t write him off because, right now, he has his back against the wall and maybe a chip on his shoulder to show the world that he is the king.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Joshua certainly has a lot at stake in this one particular fight, because if he wins he can probably write-off his knockout loss as something of a fluke, but if he loses again, especially by KO, that could potentially turn out the lights for Joshua as huge star attraction in the sport. <\/p>\n<p>Pressure bust pipes and make diamonds. I suppose we&rsquo;ll find out which category Joshua falls under this weekend in Saudi Arabia. <\/p>\n<p><ins class=\"adbladeads\" data-cid=\"25014-4024605408\" data-host=\"web.adblade.com\" data-tag-type=\"4\" style=\"display:none\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/web.adblade.com\/js\/ads\/async\/show.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Richard Heathcote\/Getty Images Joshua will get a chance to take back his three major world titles this weekend in Saudi Arabia. It&rsquo;s fight week! And leading into this Saturday&rsquo;s heavyweight rematch between Andy Ruiz Jr. and Anthony Joshua, Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn tells Sky Sports that Joshua has prepared better than even to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}