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Anthony Joshua Breaks Down Return To The Ring & Challenges Tyson Fury · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: The last seven months for you have always been about
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  Speaker 1: perseverance and getting through a lot in that first round,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of perseverance and you had to get through
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  Speaker 1: a lot.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, I want to say thank you to
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  Speaker 2: everyone for coming out this evening. I want to also no,
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate a lot. I appreciate a lot. I also
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  Speaker 2: want to give a massive thank you to Kristin Prenger
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  Speaker 2: and his team for putting up a good fight. It
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  Speaker 2: means a lot to them and it means a lot
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  Speaker 2: to me. And that's why you see what you see
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  Speaker 2: in the ring. And I give all.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks to God. You know, it was more than me
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  Speaker 3: that just picked me up.
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  Speaker 2: It can't just be me when I'm in the type
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  Speaker 2: of situation. So there's a higher power that's calling.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, my shout to my brosk get Eddie home.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah for giving me these opportunities, staying loyal to the cause,
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  Speaker 2: and thank you everyone.
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  Speaker 3: Once again.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's like, oh, wait a minute, hope we got
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  Speaker 2: ta TIVERI in the room.
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  Speaker 3: Actually wait wait wait, wait, wait to more important? Thats
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  Speaker 3: to more important? Mass? Is he here or not? I
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  Speaker 3: don't think he is here?
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  Speaker 1: No fair, it doesn't mean you don't have a message
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  Speaker 1: for him, you can still send a message.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna rip his hard out. I'm the meanest and
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  Speaker 3: vicious more champion. They're deb been.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody can stand me Alexander, No, he's not Alexander Man. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: all jokes aside. You see, there's two sides of this team.
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  Speaker 2: One is fire, you have to have that, vim that,
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  Speaker 2: but also there's respect. I respect everything he's done and
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  Speaker 2: everything that he's achieved. But as a fighting person and
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  Speaker 2: as someone who has been calling for this fight for
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  Speaker 2: a long time, we're here now, shout his excellency, shouted
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  Speaker 2: Eddie Hern from making his opportunities possible, and I hope
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  Speaker 2: the fans will be in for a lovely treat.
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  Speaker 1: We were in that first round at least AJ very
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  Speaker 1: very close to this big all British showdown not happening.
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  Speaker 1: How hurt were you in that first round?
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  Speaker 3: I'm still here talking to you now. It wasn't. He's
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  Speaker 3: a strong guy, you know, he's a strong guy, and
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  Speaker 3: I think Eddie Harm wants to sign him.
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  Speaker 2: Now Edie's already signed him, he said, but he's gonna
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  Speaker 2: do well. He's got a bright future. I'm a serious fighter,
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  Speaker 2: I know what I'm doing, I know my way around
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  Speaker 2: the ring. Maybe with a little bit more spirits, he'll
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  Speaker 2: be up there with the rest of us. But he's
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  Speaker 2: a serious, fire strong, durable and come and gave me
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  Speaker 2: a good test. But this is what champions do. We rise, man,
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  Speaker 2: you get knocked down, we stand up and we keep going.
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  Speaker 3: That's life. That's life, smartle, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: And you you've always found a way to get back up,
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  Speaker 1: even in tough fights, and you found something in that
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  Speaker 1: second round. We always know you've got the punch power.
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  Speaker 1: We know you've got the experience, and you showed that
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  Speaker 1: punch power with the knockout.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's more than punch power. That was You've got
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  Speaker 3: a lot of everything. No, but that was spirit.
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  Speaker 2: That was last, That was seener, that was the families.
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  Speaker 2: That was you know what I mean. Come on, man,
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  Speaker 2: that that hurts. You've been talking about it.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, the last seven months have been a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Only you will know how difficult the last seven months
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  Speaker 1: have been, How difficult it was to you to even
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  Speaker 1: get here in this ring, to be doing this again,
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  Speaker 1: to perform in front of all of us, How difficult
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  Speaker 1: I haven't been for you, Aj, it's been tough, but
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  Speaker 1: I felt like it was your fighting spirit and a
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  Speaker 1: bit of Lats and Ciner fighting spirit that made you
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  Speaker 1: get up in that first round and throw that big
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  Speaker 1: right hand.
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  Speaker 2: In the second.
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  Speaker 3: It's I don't want to talk without Let's.
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  Speaker 1: Move on to the matters in autumn, Tyson Fury, is
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  Speaker 1: that what's next. I feel like I've been in this
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  Speaker 1: position with you for nearly a decade, with Eddie as well, for.
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  Speaker 3: Nearly a decade.
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  Speaker 1: Let's come collectively together, Eddie, we've been doing this for
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  Speaker 1: a long time when we've always been asking that question
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  Speaker 1: about AJ Tyson Fury.
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  Speaker 3: Are we finally there now? Was this the final hurd
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  Speaker 3: or are we moving to now?
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  Speaker 4: You know what, We've signed a contract, everything's done. But
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  Speaker 4: to be honest with you, tonight is all about the
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  Speaker 4: strength that he showed to even be here tonight and
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  Speaker 4: the strength that he had to show in that fight.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I mean, no one can imagine what he's
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  Speaker 4: been through this last seven months. In fact, during that
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  Speaker 4: first round, I was thinking, we come back too soon? No,
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  Speaker 4: but seriously like the way that he come back. But
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  Speaker 4: I said in the build up to this fight, I
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  Speaker 4: feel like boxing once saved him and he needed box
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  Speaker 4: it like to help him get through this, and that
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  Speaker 4: camp allowed him to focus his mind while he was
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  Speaker 4: facing so much grief and pain and you don't know
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  Speaker 4: what was he was going through in that camp because
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  Speaker 4: he's a strong man and he likes to deal with
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  Speaker 4: his problems on his own. I'm not saying that's the
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  Speaker 4: right way to do it, but that's his way to
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  Speaker 4: do it. And to even be in the ring tonight
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  Speaker 4: was astonishing. And when you go down a couple of
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  Speaker 4: times in the first round and you're looking like your
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  Speaker 4: career might be over, he had to go to the
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  Speaker 4: depths one more time to get up and fight on
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  Speaker 4: like he's always done, and like he's done these last
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  Speaker 4: seven months. And you know this, it's hard for even
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  Speaker 4: a team, imagine what it's like for him.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I learned. I can't be stopped. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not going to be stopped. I'm not going to be denied.
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  Speaker 2: We're here, man, We're coming, We're coming, We're coming, trust me,
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  Speaker 2: We're coming.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, everyone in Jedda, what's going on? My people?
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  Speaker 3: I give it up, mate. You know, I'll never let
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  Speaker 3: you take it. I'll let you take it this time.
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  Speaker 2: What's happening in Jedda, Give me some energy, that's what
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go Stadia Arabia. I've done it once again.
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  Speaker 2: We love and appreciate everyone in attendance, everyone I watched worldwide.
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  Speaker 3: This is what heavyweight box is about.
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  Speaker 2: Shouting my brother Emmanuel, next heavyweight champion. Yeah, shouted the
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  Speaker 2: Germany crew, but we're all repping. You saw someone who's
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  Speaker 2: been knocked down, being through a lot, but got back up,
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  Speaker 2: and that's lives about. Let's keep striving, man, Let's keep pushing.
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  Speaker 2: Let's keep supporting one another, because without noan of you, Lo,
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  Speaker 2: there's no me, there's no me, and I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much. God bless, God bless