—Malik Johnson, B1Daily

Let’s keep it 100, Anthony Joshua is boxing’s most overhyped champion since Audley Harrison. Dude walks around like he’s Lennox Lewis reincarnated, but the truth is, AJ’s got more holes in his game than a Detroit street after a snowplow.

Joshua’s team loves pushing this narrative that he’s some aggressive, pressure-fighting monster. But watch his fights. The second somebody stands their ground (see: Andy Ruiz, Oleksandr Usyk), AJ panics and starts backpedaling like a cornered deer. He ain’t no Joe Frazier, digging in the trenches, he’s a tall guy who likes to paw with his jab and pray his opponent falls over from boredom.

Even when he tries to fight inside, his footwork is stiff, his combinations are robotic, and his chin is suspect. Remember when Ruiz dropped him four times? That wasn’t a fluke, that was a man who can’t handle real heat.

Let’s talk about AJ’s résumé, or lack thereof.

Wilder been calling him out for years. Fury been clowning him. Even Luis Ortiz, at damn near 50, would be a live dog against Joshua. But what does AJ do? Fights mandatory after mandatory, padded records like Jermaine Franklin and Robert Helenius, then acts shocked when fans call him out for cherry-picking.

Wilder got that eraser right hand. Fury got that slick movement and granite chin. Ortiz got that Cuban-schooled craft. What does AJ have? A stiff jab and a promoter who knows better than to put him in real danger.

They call him a knockout artist, but when’s the last time AJ starched a top-tier guy clean? Dillian Whyte? An aging Kubrat Pulev? Nah. Against elite competition, his so-called “power” disappears. Wilder turns guys into memes with one punch. Joshua? He needs six rounds to wear down a taxi driver.

Anthony Joshua is a big body with a decent jab and a whole lot of hype. Until he steps up against Fury, Wilder, or even a hungry young lion like Jared Anderson, he’ll stay exactly what he is, a protected brand, not a true warrior.

—Malik Johnson, B1Daily