Anthony Joshua plots Oleksandr Usyk downfall

Anthony Joshua is focusing on the quality of his mindset and his approach to sparring before his heavyweight world title rematch with Oleksandr Usyk. Joshua is expected to face Usyk later this year for the unified WBA, WBO and IBF belts, after losing them to the Ukrainian. He lost the belts in London last September. […]

Anthony Joshua is focusing on the quality of his mindset and his approach to sparring before his heavyweight world title rematch with Oleksandr Usyk.

Joshua is expected to face Usyk later this year for the unified WBA, WBO and IBF belts, after losing them to the Ukrainian. He lost the belts in London last September.

The Ukrainian, who was also the first undisputed champion at cruiserweight, defied the odds to win the belts in comfortable fashion from Joshua in front of over 63,000 of his home fans at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium.

“Let’s focus on quality,” Joshua said in an interview with Sky Sports. “Let’s focus on what’s needed and it has to come from the top down.

“I’m the last piece of the puzzle, I’m the last performance so we’re talking about game planning, mindset, brain training, our approach to sparring and what we’re getting out of it.

The winner of the Olympic gold medal-winning pair’s rematch will be just one belt away from unifying the division, with Tyson Fury holding the WBC title.

He will hope to face Dillian Whyte as soon as possible, and assuming he comes through that has said he would like to face Joshua or Usyk in the future for all the belts.