{"id":298998,"date":"2023-12-02T12:24:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T12:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=298998"},"modified":"2023-12-02T12:24:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T12:24:16","slug":"boxing-star-claims-joshua-might-be-making-a-mistake-fighting-wallin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/boxing\/boxing-star-claims-joshua-might-be-making-a-mistake-fighting-wallin\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing star claims Joshua &apos;might be making a mistake&apos; fighting Wallin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Boxing star claims Anthony Joshua &#8216;might be making a mistake&#8217; in fighting Otto Wallin and reveals the former heavyweight champion is in for a &#8216;tough fight&#8217; on December 23<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Some of boxing&#8217;s biggest stars will assemble for a mega event on December 23\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span>Otto Walin&#8217;s only defeat came in a unanimous decision loss to Tyson Fury in 2019\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>After Mail Sport&#8217;s exclusive, the inside story on the making of Benn v Eubank at Tottenham&#8217;s ground &#8211; Listen to The Hook<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anthony Joshua will continue his quest to become a three-time heavyweight world champion when he takes on\u00a0Otto Wallin later this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Brit will lock horns with the accomplished southpaw on the same card as Deontay Wilder v Joseph Parker in Saudi Arabia on December 23.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fight will be the sternest test yet on Joshua&#8217;s comeback trail following comfortable victories against Jermaine Franklin and Robert Helenius.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As Wallin, who boasts a 26-1 record, is coming off the back of impressive wins over fighters including\u00a0Murat Gassiev and Dominic Breazeale.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, he is a left hander like Oleksandr Usyk and along with the Ukrainian&#8217;s speed and intelligence, Joshua looked incredibly uncomfortable against his stance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/02\/11\/77846053-12817415-The_34_year_old_will_take_on_Sweden_s_Otto_Wallin_right_in_the_S-a-48_1701516342668.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old will take on Sweden&#8217;s Otto Wallin (right) in the Saudi capital\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/02\/11\/78500011-12817415-image-a-49_1701516458344.jpg\" height=\"410\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Wallin dealt major damage to Tyson Fury in a 2019 unanimous decision loss, the only defeat on his record\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/02\/11\/77844501-12817415-Jarrell_Miller_pulled_no_punches_during_the_press_conference_ann-a-50_1701516746015.jpg\" height=\"414\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jarrell Miller believes Joshua may have made a mistake picking the Swede for his next clash<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Jarrell Miller, who was due to fight Joshua in 2019 before testing positive for multiple banned substances, reckons the 34-year-old may have made a blunder in agreeing to face the Swede.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I feel honestly that [Joshua] might have made a mistake with picking Otto Wallin,&#8217; the American told\u00a0SecondsOut.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Even though Otto Wallin is not a one-punch knockout kind of guy, he is durable, he comes to fight, he is not a quitter and it is going to be a tough fight for [Joshua]. I don&#8217;t think that it is going to be easy, at all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The mental mind state that [Joshua]has, is he going to hold up?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When he fights in the UK, he has a little more oomph in his step a little bit, but when he fights outside of the UK, we don&#8217;t get the same fiery person, the playing ground is going to be a little bit more even out in Saudi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I wish all of the luck to Otto Wallin, I want to really be the one to knock out [Joshua], but may the best man win, it is what it is.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Miller and Joshua have been engaged in a bitter feud ever since their ill-fated clash. The pair almost came to blows at the press conference event for &#8216;Day of Reckoning&#8217;, which will also include the American&#8217;s fight with Daniel Dubois.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2023\/10\/25\/The%20Hook_Promo_Desktop.636.png\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/article-12817415\/Boxing-star-claims-Anthony-Joshua-making-mistake-fighting-Otto-Wallin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boxing star claims Anthony Joshua &#8216;might be making a mistake&#8217; in fighting Otto Wallin and reveals the former heavyweight champion is in for a &#8216;tough fight&#8217; on December 23 Some of boxing&#8217;s biggest stars will assemble for a mega event on December&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Boxing star claims Joshua &amp;apos;might be making a mistake&amp;apos; 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