MIKE Tyson has some simple advice for new heavyweight king Anthony Joshua — stay humble.
Tyson joined Joshua’s legion of admirers after watching his breathtaking, 11th-round knockout of Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley last weekend.
Joshua matched Tyson’s feat of winning his first 19 heavyweight bouts by knockouts and the American legend warned: ‘It’s so easy to have a big head when you’re successful all the time.
‘It’s easy to be arrogant when you’ve come from the hood and no-one has taught him humbleness yet. You don’t arrive humble in this world. You have humbleness thrust upon you.
‘I went nuts, he’s going to go nuts. He’s talking crazy right now already,’ laughed Tyson.
‘I’d say his only weakness is not keeping his hands up to guard against a right hand.’
‘Could he beat Marciano’s [49-0] record? Yeah, he could,’ says the man who was the youngest boxer to win the world heavyweight title, aged 20 in 1986.
‘He’s bigger than another undefeated guy in Floyd [Mayweather]. Floyd’s a great fighter, but when you go and see a fight you want to see someone get hurt. You want to see Klitschko against Joshua.
‘You don’t want to see a fight go 12 rounds, where guys are patting each other. He is different to all the other heavyweights. Joshua is pretty exciting. When he exploded like that against Klitschko, the whole game changed.
Joshua knocked out Wladimir Klitschko in the 11th round at Wembley last weekend.
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