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2nd April 2023
12:49pm BST
"I'll f***ing meet you with a right hand... His mate apologised to me and I said 'you can't'. I didn't want the trouble with him but I just said 'what are you doing?' And he went 'what are you going to do? "I said 'what the f*** are you going to do' so I've stepped down like 'let's go'. I stepped aside so I thought he was going to step to me and a right hand was going to meet him."But he didn't get close enough so what do you want me to do? I was just trying to tell the man that you can't approach a fighter, so you can't do that. It's down to the fighters and if Jermaine and [Anthony] are having a little tussle..."
Joshua won the fight comfortably but many were expecting the Englishman to knock his opponent out.
"Inside the ring, it is a different energy so I apologise to those watching. I respect Jermaine, Eddie [Hearn], thank you for this opportunity. Fans, thank you as well,' he added.
https://twitter.com/ESBRBoxing/status/1642423901677289472"It was important to win. Jermaine has a good duck and dive style, somebody else from Britain will probably knock him out; respect to him, he did well.
"I should have knocked him out but it is done. On to the next. He is here to prove himself, not roll over. I wish I could have knocked him out."
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