The pressure, therefore, is all on Joshua. To set the traps, to catch his prey, to ignore the voices in his head if one round becomes two, and three rounds becomes four. Joshua, 28-4 (25 KOs), is no longer the instinctive assassin of old and might start to grow frustrated if the herky-jerky and surely safety-conscious Paul proves tricky to harness. But other than for the most fleeting of jiffies, this will be straightforward for Joshua, who, even at 36, is a whole mountain above his opponent and, while wearing 10oz gloves, he could well administer the pasting that the bloodthirsty crave. A fight, then, like the myriad others we’ve seen over the years that pits a very good fighter with a mediocre rival. A fight, in fact, that Paul has long promised would come and a beating, therefore, that’s always been in the post.
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