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Hope he can come back from this. Eddie Hearn should've been on the phone to David Haye as early as last night in respect to getting Joshua past 6 rounds without blowing out. He's worked conditional miracles for Chisora and he's the best viable outlet around the heavyweight scene right now. If anyone knows anything about boxing with massive muscle mass right now it's him.

I warned years ago in previous threads about Hearn mismanagement. If he messes this up the British fans will never forget. We've been shat on far too many times with overpromotion and mismanagement. Khan, Brook and Hatton to name a few. The first having so many defensive frailties that were just plain ignored in favour of his incredible offensive output only to have Virgil Hunter render him absolutely incapable of producing anything. Brook and Hatton were both mismanaged in near identical ways. Protected undefeated status fighting out of home town venues only to make silly jumps in class leading to two brutal knockouts a piece.

Last note on this though. Joshua needs to learn from defeat. He learned nothing from Klitschko because he dug out a win.

Callum Smith is exciting. Guy is a giant SMW and hopefully fills the gap Froch left. Massive hooks in this guy. Opponent was nothing to shout about but I can't see Canelo trying to chase this guy down any time soon.

Katie Taylor got battered and still managed to unify the division. She lost basically. The judges were as awful as expected. Taylor is an exceptional boxer in a fairly talentless gender pool. UFC women's started like this and it picked up once your Rouseys and Holms showed up. Women's boxing can only go up. Wasn't much Taylor could do last night. She came to box and the opponent came to fight. Taylor lost that fight.

The bookies aren't rich? You get absolutely nothing odds on the Joshua's, Mayweathers and Wilder of this world. In fact quite the opposite. The bookies will have paid out massively on the people that took a punt on Ruiz who at his shortest odds was 15-1