ANTONY JOSHUA has a list of three potential opponents for his next fight, according to promoter Eddie Hearn.
The two-time heavyweight champion, 34, was battered and knocked out by Daniel Dubois in the fifth round of their all-British dust-up in front of a record crowd at Wembley on Saturday night.
The defeat scuppered Joshua’s hopes of becoming a three-time world champion and handed him a fourth professional loss after coming up short against Andy Ruiz in 2019 and twice against Oleksandr Usyk.
Since the fight, AJ has quashed talk of him hanging up his gloves.
And Hearn has now revealed the three men Joshua could face next as he looks to bounce back from a damaging defeat.
Those options are a rematch with Dubois, blockbuster showdown with Tyson Fury, or a clash with another former world champion in Deontay Wilder.
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However, he also added the caveat they could choose to wait for the outcome of Fury’s rematch with Oleksandr Usyk on December 21.
Speaking to iFL TV, he said: “If Fury was to lose maybe they [AJ and Fury] both say ‘Right, let’s give the public one last hurrah, two big fights, done’.
“Or, if Fury wins, he could defend against AJ for the unified world heavyweight title and AJ could beat him and become a three-time heavyweight champion. Anything’s possible.
“Or we could rematch Daniel Dubois.
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“Or [he] could fight someone else. Deontay Wilder. I dunno, it’s not something that’s been discussed yet but two guys coming off defeats, big punchers, someone’s got to go from the sport.
“But for me the options are rematch Daniel Dubois or wait and see what happens in Fury against Usyk.”
Fury, 36, suffered his first professional defeat at the hands of Usyk in May but has a rematch clause which was triggered for a December bout.
Dubois’ promoter Frank Warren has touted his man for a rematch with Usyk after he was stopped by the Ukrainian last year.
Wilder, 38, has lost four of his last five fights and is coming off the back of successive defeats to Joseph Parker and Zhilei Zhang.
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
