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20th December 2023
11:25am GMT
Sahni asked the fighter if Saudi Arabia was "becoming the home of boxing" after his third fight in the country.
Joshua replied: "I'm not sure, you tell me."
He was then asked what he has made of the capital city, and he kept his answer brief yet again.
"I'm just focused really, I haven't seen much of it. I've just been in the gym and then back to my hotel."
Boxing commentator and pundit Andy Clarke then stepped in and asked him if his approach to fight week had changed at all.
https://twitter.com/MichaelBensonn/status/1737168072287375806"Process gets better," he said. "You learn more - just lock in and fight. I just focus fully."
After yet another awkward pause Clarke followed it up by asking if he had "retreated into fight mode", to which AJ bluntly responded: "Correct."
Even getting into the specifics of the fight couldn't bring Joshua out of his shell, and when asked if he would throw a right hand straight down the middle at Wallin, he just said: "100 per cent. Definitely."
The 2012 Olympic gold medalist remained blunt when asked about Jarrell Miller, someone who the former unified champ was supposed to fight before he failed a drug test.
When that fight was pulled, Andy Ruiz was drafted in at the last minute, and that caused one of the biggest upsets in the sport as Joshua suffered his first defeat to the Mexican in a shock result. Miller however, managed to get his career back on track, and is now fighting another Englishman, Daniel Dubois, on this Saturday's card, but in pretty much every interview, the fighter has only talked about getting a fight with Joshua."He's a drug cheat," was all he had to say about the American before a long awkward silence. When quizzed about whether he'd fight him, he said: "No, definitely not."
There was another long pause in the interview before AJ asks, "All good?" and making his exit to conclude what was one of the most painful interviews ever to watch. Related links:Explore more on these topics:
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