Anthony Joshua was an avid onlooker today at the opening press conference for the domestic battle that will take the U.K by storm in February.
The match-up in question is, of course, Lawrence Okolie vs Isaac Chamberlain. Following the press conference, Matchroom mogul Eddie Hearn touched on Joshua’s plans moving forward.
Hearn shared that the end game for his charge is to become the undisputed world heavyweight champion.
Hearn said: “We’re getting there. As AJ says, he wants the belts, he wants to be the undisputed king of the division. That’s the aim, and to do that he has to win two belts.
“We’re looking at March 24, March 31 and April 7 as potential dates for his next fight, with various different venues in London and Wales, even other venues and cities around Europe as well.
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“Hopefully we’ll be in (a) position to announce that early in 2018.
“AJ is that Willy Wonka fight – the golden ticket, the one everybody wants. A lot of people are talking ‘I want this, I want that’ but if you really want it (to) be realistic and come get it.”
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Anthony Joshua added: “Every year has to be an increase on what we have just done. I want to go and become (the) undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. 2018 starts paving the way for that.”
“Whoever is the first stop off, end of March or early April, so be it … But I do want it to be (for) a championship belt. There’s two left – WBC and WBO. The WB is fine, whether it’s the O or C is up to the opponent” Joshua concluded.
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