Anthony Joshua has opened up on the difference between the two defeats he had against Andy Ruiz Jr and Oleksandr Usyk.
According to the boxer, the loss to Usyk, which was the second one in his career, hurt him significantly more than the previous one.
"People have high expectations of me and I have high expectations of myself," Joshua told
Sky Sports.
"That is why I feel like when I lost the first time I didn't make any excuses.
"But I had my reason and I always felt cool because I took my loss because I knew I would get it back so I just brushed that one away. But this one hurt because I was at 100%, no problems, everything was cool and I just lost to the better man on the night.
"It gave me motivation to pull myself out of that position where mentally it killed me. I have fought my way back and I will redeem myself."
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