Anthony Fowler has revealed that three heavyweights have hurt Anthony Joshua in sparring.
Fowler recently gave his account of Daniel Dubois badly hurt Joshua during a sparring session ‘turning his legs to jelly’.
Although ‘AJ’ wasn’t floored by Dubois he was by the 6ft 9ins Kazakh Ivan Dychko and David Price.
Fowler speaking to talkSport revealed: “I remember Ivan Dychko dropped Joshua.
The Liverpudlian claims the spar took place just before the 2012 Olympics, which Joshua would go onto win.
“And David Price knocked Joshua down really heavily, he really hurt Joshua.
“That Kazakh lad [Dychko] dropped him once, but it was more of a flash knockdown. And Dubois hurt him as well.
“So I’ve seen him hurt three times but it is heavyweight boxing so it doesn’t matter who you are, if you get hit flush on the chin you could go over.”
“That was in the amateurs, we were all sparring with the Kazakhstanis, and they were all wearing smaller gloves.
“They were all wearing competition gloves, and we were all wearing big gloves.
“I sparred that Serik Sapiyev, and he done me in mate. He had a pair of 10oz gloves on and I had pillows on my hands.
“It was sparring before the Olympics. Joshua was loading up and I think he got caught with a one-two and it was a flash knockdown.
“Not many people were there, it was just a spar but I remember it.”
Joshua would take on Dychko in the Olympic semi-finals winning to book a place in the final where he would defeat reigning Olympic champion Roberto Cammarelle of Italy.
