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Originally Posted by Osem
Joshua appears to have his head screwed on and knows he's not ready yet. I can't see why his management team wouldn't want to nurture this talent because if they go about it the right way he could be a huge money earner for them. Put him up against Haye and he'd lose badly and probably never recover. You're only unbeatable until your beaten after all...
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Because Boxing is as corrupt a sport as they come, they can't help seeing mega money now and failing to realise what could be earned and achieved overall.
Right now though the only person talking about Haye and Joshua is Haye himself, Joshua has now distanced himself from that. Chisora is a decent opponent but I think he's better left till after another challenge.
Camps and promoters have got it all wrong before. They've either sent them up too quick or held their golden boy back until he's horribly exposed in a way they never recover.
Examples
Amir Khan was so poorly mismanaged early on it nearly ruined his career. He survived and got himself into a far better management team and trainer in Roach until he needed to go up another level in which Roach couldn't deliver, specifically defensive work, it still didn't come under Roach and he was knocked out by Garcia and lost to Peterson. Looking now under Virgil you wouldn't think it was the same Amir Khan, so cool, quick and agile. He was the man to beat Mayweather and never got the chance. Khan is finally the complete article now.
Ricky Hatton. A prime example of holding back a potential Golden Boy and then letting him loose with real prizefighters. 30+ Fights against low ranked or middle ranking fighters only to dive straight into the top level against the already flawless Floyd, he was horribly exposed. He was then fed to Manny which was a pretty dire bit of booking by his team and thus ended his career.
David Price: Heavyweight contender whom fought bums for 15 fights and found himself knocked out by a seasoned veteran he had no right to be in the ring with. He was then knocked out again in a rematch thus bringing an abrupt stop to his career.
Kell Brook: Ricky Hatton waiting to happen, I plead it doesn't but everything stinks of Hatton all over again. Constant talk of wanting Khan when he doesn't deserve it in any way possible. He should be out there fighting Alexander, Maidana, Cotto right now to get right up there in Vegas Prize Fighting.
There's plenty of others but these are the recent modern examples.
The more this becomes a super money sport, the worse it gets.