Anthony Joshua admits ‘there is no future’ if he fails to beat Otto Wallin… as Deontay Wilder super-fight lays await

ANTHONY JOSHUA admits his reconstruction career is on the line as he tries to do a demolition job on Otto Wallin.

The 34-year-old London 2012 legend has lost his WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight world titles in 2022, after back-to-back Oleksandr Usyk defeats.

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Anthony Joshua and Otto Wallin facing off[/caption]

And the rebuilding Watford hero has given up on his dream of becoming undisputed boss with father time, as well as top opponents, mounting up against him.

But he has a long-overdue barnstormer with former WBC king Deontay Wilder booked for March 9 – as long as he can come through his Swedish two-fight amateur rival on Saturday.

Win and he is back at boxing’s top table. Lose and – as the former bricklayer admits – all his hard labour will have turned to dust.

“I’m looking to do a demolition job,” he said. “100 per cent. “I am looking to do a good job. I will do a good job.

“I have purse focus on Saturday. That’s where my heart and soul, every cell in my body is fully focussed toward Otto Wallin and doing what I know I can do.

“It’s not hard to stay focused, I made that commitment in my life to stay fully locked in.

“I will perform and do my job but I can definitely also window shop in my life but I also have to say that this is the checkpoint and if I don’t get past this then there is no future.”

This weekend is Joshua’s third fight in the trillion-dollar kingdom, so no prize fighter is more aware or enriched by the crazy cash swirling around the desert.

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But – after coming across as brooding and tense in public media events (but a good laugh with SunSport on Tuesday night) – he says all the oil-money in the world won’t make him slip up.

And with the polite boxing ambassador staying home in north London and the spiteful short-tempered beast in the Riyadh ring, Wallin might be in for his hat-trick hiding.

“I’m here to fight,” he growled. “I’m not here to party or get caught up in the glitz and glamour. I want to fight, I want to perform well.

“I put pressure on myself so of course I am tense, because I want to perform and I want to win.

“I have that urge to win and I want to hurt my opponent as well.”

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