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AJ comes in at 240.8lb for Pulev fight

British boxer Anthony Joshua (white trunks) competes with Mexican-American boxer
Andy Ruiz Jr (golden trunks) during the heavyweight boxing match between Andy Ruiz Jr.
and Anthony Joshua for the IBF, WBA, WBO and IBO titles in Diriya, near the Saudi capital
on December 7, 2019. – Joshua reclaimed his world heavyweight crown from Andy Ruiz,
outclassing the Mexican-American to score a unanimous points victory. (Photo by AFP)

Two-time unified heavyweight champion, Anthony Joshua weighed-in ahead at 240.8lb ahead of his heavyweight bout against Kubrat Pulev on Saturday. Joshua, 31, was originally set to fight Pulev, 39 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium back in June but the bout was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The  WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, and IBO champion was pleased with his current state and said he felt good.
“Good weight. Yeah, I feel good,” Joshua said. “I’ll train tonight, keep a good routine. I sparred yesterday so tonight will be a shake out.  “I’ve studied him, he thinks he’s a warrior. I told him, ‘Don’t let the fighters you’ve fought gas you up. You’re in against a real one now’.  
“When people come in the ring against me they are confident then after a few rounds their soul gets destroyed.  “Once I see that I can take them out.  “We’re big boys, I don’t know how to explain it but we punch heavy. First man to land, I think that will be the last man standing.”

Joshua then addressed Pulev’s tough talk in the lead up to the fight.
“Many years I’ve been watching boxing and I’ve seen so many fighters talk a lot of rubbish and then they get smacked up.  
“That’s just him doing what fighters do. Unless you study boxing, that type of stuff would intimidate someone. But that doesn’t really intimidate me.  “I would have clapped him in his jaw there and then but I’ve got to do it tomorrow.”
“That’s just how we are, innit? Come talking a lot of rubbish, I don’t want to swear on TV but he spoke a lot of rubbish.  “It’s just back yourself really, that’s all it is.”  Asked what he told Pulev, Joshua responded: “I don’t really want to repeat it on live TV.”

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