Wladimir Klitschko will not speak aloud his prediction for Saturday night’s monster heavyweight battle.
But ‘Dr. Steelhammer’ has recorded how he sees his Wembley clash with Anthony Joshua going down, saved it to a memory stick and will auction it off for charity after the contest.
In an inventive attempt to get into Joshua’s head, Klitschko has insisted that he knows the outcome but will keep his prediction to himself in the run-up to the fight.
But ‘AJ’ has done no such thing as he’s simply answered when asked how he sees the bout, the biggest of his career to date, ending.
Playing those mind games https://t.co/WENV0isLWV
— JOE (@JOE_co_uk) April 27, 2017
Seeing as how each end every one of Joshua’s professional fights has ended within the distance, the 27-year-old feels no reason to expect his next to play out any differently.
Joshua foresees a stoppage win over Klitschko but he’s gone a step further by predicting the very round in which his opponent will be vanquished.
“Round seven,” Joshua confidently answered in a Q & A on the official YouTube channel of sponsor Lynx.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISqTFls6r1M
None of Joshua’s 18 opponents to date have seen an eighth round with the London 2012 gold medallist and he intends to add Klitschko’s name to that list come Saturday night.
“Counter-punching, they’re the punches you don’t see coming,” Joshua responded when asked how he would get the better of the Ukrainian.
Both looked in incredible shape https://t.co/0d5nmVi0Ax
— FootballJOE (@FootballJOE) April 28, 2017
Joshua weighed in at his career heaviest on Friday afternoon, 10lbs heavier than Klitschko and he reiterated his plan to put his opponent to sleep after hitting the scales at 17st 12lbs.
“You’ve got to take the fight round by round,” Joshua said at the weigh-in ceremony.
“I want to knock him out. But I don’t hate Klitschko, I don’t dislike Klitschko, I want to beat Klitschko. For now it’s tunnel vision.”
