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In the immediate aftermath of the fight, Joshua said he wanted to continue in boxing.<\/p>\n
Describing himself as a “warrior”, he added: “If people want to see me fight, I will fight.”<\/p>\n
Joshua won gold at the 2012 Olympics in his home city of London, and claimed his first world title eight years ago.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s fight was his 32nd as a professional – and afterwards hinted he had a rematch clause.<\/p>\n
Fury, watching ringside, joked to a television camera that Joshua’s defeat had cost him \u00a3150m – the sort of fee he could have expected if the two were to fight.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, Fury must focus on his rematch with Usyk in Saudi Arabia in December.<\/p>\n
Joshua has also been linked with a bout against former world champion Deontay Wilder – but the 38-year-old American’s past two fights were defeats against Joseph Parker and Zhilei Zhang. Wilder’s trainer Malik Scott was at Wembley on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
While the Briton ponders his options, Jones is clear on what he believes his next step should be.<\/p>\n
Asked if Joshua should “walk away”, the Welshman said: “I think he should. He’s a credit to the sport and has reinvented sport in Britain in many ways. He made stadium fights seem the norm.<\/p>\n
“He’s got all that money, he’s still got his health, and he’ll be a celebrity until the day he dies if that’s what he wants.”<\/p>\n
Joshua’s long-time promoter Eddie Hearn said: “We’ve been here before, but the defeat by Ruiz was far more brutal.<\/p>\n
“He’s OK. He’s gutted and kind of kicking himself about the mistakes he made. A lot of people around him are saying: ‘It couldn’t have gone any worse and he still could have won.’<\/p>\n
“Of course he’s in the closing chapters of his career, there’s no doubt about that, and if you start getting knocked out like that you certainly have to look at things.<\/p>\n
“We all know we’ve seen the best AJ over the last year so it’s difficult to say that just because he got chinned by Dubois, that’s it.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n