Anthony Joshua vs. Jarrell Miller is Officially Official as the Brit Prepares to Make His US Debut

Source - The deal is done and unified heavyweight world titleholder Anthony Joshua is coming to the United States.

Joshua, the British superstar, will make his American debut by defending his three major world title belts against top contender Jarrell "Big Baby" Miller on June 1 at Madison Square Garden in New York in a fight that will be streamed by DAZN, Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn announced on Wednesday.

Joshua is not only coming across the pond, but he will do so to fight in the hometown of the Brooklyn-born Miller.

"June 1, I am heading to the Big Apple and I plan to embrace the culture and leave with an appetite for more," Joshua said. "I will be fighting Jarrell Miller at the legendary Madison Square Garden. It has been an honor and a blessing to fight at some of the best venues in the world at home in the U.K., not least Wembley Stadium. But the time has come to head across the Atlantic and defend my heavyweight titles in the USA.

"I am looking forward to taking on another challenge with a good boxer and a brilliant talker. It will be an exciting fight. I will leave nothing to chance and plan on dismantling Miller in style to make my mark."


BROOKLYN STAND UP!!!

YUGE news in the boxing world with the announcement that Anthony Joshua is going to be making his long awaited (by boxing fans) US debut against local product Jarrell Miller - a 6'4 300 pound undefeated former kickboxer.  A lot of people are going to bitch and moan because Joshua isn't taking on the toughest challenges in a fight with Wilder or Fury, but I for one am just glad we at least accomplish one major goal with this fight, get the kid stateside to really introduce him to the world.

As for the fight itself, a lot of folks are going to write Miller off purely because he's 300 pounds and not in ideal shape by anyone's definition.  The flip side of that is that he is deceptively quick and has a lot better footwork than people give him credit for, no doubt a result of his background as a kickboxer.  It's easier to walk people down when you don't have to worry about getting kicked in the face, hence why Big Baby has a little more bounce than the average nose-tackle sized human.  And because of that, I'm going with the hometown hero.  

• American.  
• From New York.  
• Raised in Brooklyn.  
• Fat dude.
• Talks mad shit.  

If that isn't a recipe for your new favorite fighter then I genuinely don't know what is.  Not only that, but I'm still not sold on Joshua.  He took some big shots from a very old and much smaller post-drug suspension Alexander Povetkin, he got put on his ass by Klitchsko, and he didn't blow me away against Joseph Parker at all.  I don't think he hits as hard as Wilder, I think he's way too stiff and flat footed for Fury, and quite frankly I think Dillian Whyte gives him a serious test too.  But he was never going to fight Fury or Wilder or Whyte (unless he was willing to fight for peanuts) because Eddie Hearn and Matchroom don't want him to fight those guys.  At least not yet.  

Why send the golden goose to slaughter when it's still shitting out 24 karat eggs, dig?

So for now we wait until June when the boy king makes his way across the pond to grace the Big Apple's biggest stage.  In the meantime, please enjoy the press conference.