Otto Wallin would love to have a duel with Anthony Joshua at the end of the year.
The Swedish heavyweight candidate threw his name in the hat to face Brit after he defeated by Oleksandr Usyk again last weekend.
Joshua has lost a Unexplainable split decision comes to the Ukrainian men’s team on Saturday as he wants to become a three-time unified heavyweight world champion.
Usyk (20-0, 13 KOs) won the WBA Super, IBF, IBO and WBO titles against the 32-year-old at the Jeddah Superdome in Saudi Arabia.
And while Usyk, who added the vacancy Ring Magazine to his collection with victory, is Target Tyson Fury for an undisputed potential showdownFormer Olympic gold medal-winning amateur star Joshua – who is replacing Usyk who was dethroned by him in their first match at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London last September – stated that he wanted to create a hurry back to the ring.
After a weird rant after battleJoshua told the media in post-battle press conference:
“So I spoke to Eddie and asked if I could play in November because I think motivation is very important in boxing.
“About whom I fight: to one and to all, I will fight anyone.”
And Wallin, who took on the aforementioned Fury at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas in 2019, is eager for a clash with Joshua with boxer Finchley looking to rebuild and return to title contention.
He said OLBG:
“I think it means a lot to me and Joshua fighting each other. Everyone in the UK knows me for giving Fury one of the toughest fights of his career and I get a lot of support from that.
I’m always training and trying to get better and I can’t wait to go to the UK and claim another shot at Fury by beating Anthony Joshua.”
And those sentiments were echoed by Wallin promoter Dmitriy Salita, who praised Joshua’s new coach Robert Garcia while speaking to Lord Ping.
He say:
“Based on this performance, it looks like Anthony Joshua has a lot of big fights left.
The one that makes the most sense in the next role is Otto Wallin, especially if Tyson takes on Usyk in December.
Joshua did great, he’s still improving as a boxer [and it] looks like Robert Garcia and the rest of the team helped breathe new life into him. “
