adminBERLIN. — Boxing legend George Foreman says Britain’s Anthony Joshua is his favourite to win this month’s clash of the heavyweight giants against Wladimir Klitschko.
“If I were a gambler, I’d see Joshua as a 6-5 favourite. So I’d put him just in front,” the 68-year-old Foreman told German magazine Sport Bild.
Londoner Joshua will fight Hamburg-based Klitschko at Wembley Stadium on April 29 with the WBA “Super”, IBF, and IBO world heavyweight titles on the line.
Joshua (27), the 2012 London Olympic champion, has won all of his 18 professional bouts so far, but Foreman, a former two-time world heavyweight champion, says Klitschko provides his “first real test”.
“Klitschko knows how to win and how to use his body size. It will be a difficult fight,” added Foreman who lost to Muhammad Ali in the 1974 “Rumble in the Jungle” bout.
At 41 Klitschko is bidding to be world heavyweight champion again having lost his belts to Britain’s Tyson Fury — his first defeat in a decide — in November 2015.— AFP.
Peter Tanyanyiwa
Online Reporter