Former European Super bantamweight champion, Spencer Oliver has warned Anthony Joshua against a rematch with Andy Ruiz Jr who defeated him few weeks ago.
Anthony Joshua lost his titles to Andy Ruiz at the Madison Square Garden in New York after he got knocked out in the seventh round.
With Anthony Joshua returning to training ahead of a rematch with Andy Ruiz speculated to take place this November, Spencer Oliver believes it will do damage to his career.
“He’s just coming back after being away, just to start his training hand stuff,” he told Jim White on talkSPORT. “Listen, he wants the fight again.
“I think it’s a dangerous move, I really do. I think he is going to have a lot of demons going into that fight.
“Ruiz Jr is going to have been elevated to another level – he’s not going to want to let that title go.
“It’s going to be a tough, tough night for Anthony Joshua and we are really going to find out what he is made of.”
“He wants it, he doesn’t want to go through that warming up process with another couple of fights or whatever. But Anthony Joshua really is a brand.
“And when you have become a brand, a loss is really, really damaging. Another loss could be career-ending because he will lose all that marketability.
“Does he really want to be mixing it at that lower level? I don’t just think he is the face of boxing, he is the face of sport.”
Oliver is the latest in a long list of esteemed boxing pundits who have urged the 29-year-old not to take the fight against Ruiz.
Given there was so much controversy and so many conspiracies surrounding Joshua’s performance in New York, David Haye, Bob Arum, George Groves and Carl Froch have all suggested Joshua should take another fight.
George Groves is very honest on what he thinks Anthony Joshua should do next after Ruiz defeat
But the Watford-born slugger is adamant he must avenge his first professional loss, despite what a second defeat could mean for his career.
“I’m not saying it would be over, but it’s a hard, hard road back,” Oliver added. “You’ve got other fighters like Dillian Whyte who has only been beaten once but come back.
“Does he really want to be mixing it at that lower level? I don’t just think he is the face of boxing, he is the face of sport.”
“I’m not saying it would be over, but it’s a hard, hard road back,” Oliver added. “You’ve got other fighters like Dillian Whyte who has only been beaten once but come back.
“Or people like Dereck Chisora who has lost like nine times, but they keep coming back because they went in those hard fights and they were built as fighters.”
