WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitri Bivol in an interview with , said that the British Antoine Joshua in a duel with Francis Ngannou will not make the mistakes he made in his time Tyson Fury .
Joshua and Ngannou will face each other on March 8 in Saudi Arabia. Joshua, 34, has 27 victories (24 by KO) and three defeats in the professional ring, including two against Alexander Usik. The Briton is Olympic champion in 2012, former world champion according to WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO. Ngannou made his boxing debut last October in a fight with British WBC champion Tyson Fury, but lost by split decision.
“I’m happy for people like Ngannou. He came out of poverty. He approached the fight with Tyson Fury responsibly. If Fury, apparently, did not stand out for this, then Ngannou approached it with all seriousness. He won the right to box Joshua. But now the question is different… Joshua looked at what Ngannou is capable of and what a real boxing champion is capable of if he does not approach the fight seriously. Character-wise, I think Joshua is not the same person as Fury. He is more serious. It seems to me that from now on the fight will no longer be as equal as it was in Fury’s case. No offense to Francis Ngannou, but that’s my opinion. I respect him as an athlete, a fighter, a boxer who undertook such a fight. But Joshua has a slightly different personality,” Bivol told .
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