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Anthony Joshua to come back 'fully charged' after much-needed year out of the ring

Having not stepped in the ring since his bout with Daniel Dubois on 21st September 2024, Anthony Joshua looks set to make a long awaited return, with a potential fight with Tyson Fury mooted.

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AJ has rarely experienced sustained periods of inactivity during his professional boxing career, having fought 32 times since making his debut against Emanuele Leo on 5th October 2013.

A fourth career defeat to Dubois however has led to a lengthy break for the heavyweight, and his current elbow injury means his time out of the ring is likely to reach a year.

Only once in Joshua’s career has he spent a year out of the ring, between his respective victories against Andy Ruiz Jr and Kubrat Pulev.

When speaking to iFL TV, Joshua was questioned on whether it bothers him that by the time he next fights, potentially in an all-British clash with Tyson Fury, he may have endured a year out of the ring.

He said: “It’s been needed you know, I think it’s been needed.

I’ve got an active mind and for me I think taking two steps back has given me a chance to take a bird's eye view of what’s going on, everything that’s going on in my life.

“I am not only just taking a year out of the ring enjoying the 12 or 13 years as a professional. It’s like, let me take some time out to restructure what’s going on in my life, because when you’re fully emerged in the game you never really get to look.

“Get a lot of things out of my life and go back to what’s important, come back again fully charged.

“I’m not taking this time out in vain, I’m doing it for a reason.”

While there has been suggestions from Eddie Hearn that Joshua has ‘one to three fights left’, he sounds like a man primed for an impactful return after a constructive spell out of the sport.

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