LONDON:
Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua mentioned there could be “no future” for him within the sport if he fails to beat Otto Wallin in Saudi Arabia on Saturday.
Two-time world champion Joshua, who misplaced his WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO belts to Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk in 2021, is preventing on the identical invoice as ex-WBC title holder Deontay Wilder.
The pair might combat if each get previous their opponents in Riyadh, with Wilder going through Joseph Parker.
Requested if it was laborious to give attention to Wallin with a possible showdown towards Wilder within the works, Joshua informed reporters on Thursday he was not pondering past Saturday’s bout.
“My coronary heart, my soul, each cell in my physique is totally targeted in the direction of Otto Wallin and doing what I do know I can do,” the 34-year-old Briton mentioned.
“I do know the place I am getting into my life. However I’ve additionally bought to say, that is the checkpoint and if I do not get previous this, there isn’t a future. “So I am totally locked into Otto Wallin and doing the job.”