The delicious Orie was supposed to be ‘New Anthony Joshua’. Now he has to follow his own path | Boxing news

The delicious Orie was supposed to be the new Anthony Joshua.

The charismatic super-technical weight in the GB team won the Commonwealth games, won the European Games and won a place at the 2024 Olympics.

Of course, in order to follow that golden path to the glory and wild professional boxer hype, he needed a medal in Paris last summer.

Instead, she hit the disaster.

Despite a solid appearance in his introductory fight in Paris, he lost a distributed decision on Armenia’s Davit Chaloyana. The dream suddenly was over.

“I set up a naked minimum to achieve at the Olympic Games – to get a bronze medal. It was an absolute minimum. And even if I couldn’t achieve it, when I went to my bed, I woke up the next day, I thought for the last eight years, I sacrificed myself so much – pain, physically, emotional all that – if I didn’t want in the first place,” Sky Sports.

“The first thing that came to my mind, and this is honest, I was a failure. If I am honest with you. It was so bad. I always wanted to get an Olympic tattoo. But I just feel like I don’t deserve it.

“It sounds terrible. Being an Olympian I know that is a great achievement in itself. But as athletes set the strips for ourselves and if we do not reach it, it is very black.

“Yes, eight years of my life has passed.

A different way of thinking for the first pro fight

He now renews a new boxer career. He will have his first professional boxing competition on April 5.

“I’m just trying to start over and I don’t have to do that thing from last year to what I’m doing now,” Orie said. “I’m definitely a better athlete as a result.

“This time we are not focused on scoring, but more about how much harm we can do to our opponent. So it’s a different way of thinking.”

He has to put that Olympic despair behind him as he plans a new course.

“I know I may never, but my goal and my mission in my life is to overcome such things,” Orie said. “I’m sure I’ll probably look at him one day, I’ll look at him without that emotional attachment. It will be more constructive than a destructive mentality.”

He also reflected: “This allowed me to separate myself from Anthony Joshua. As much as I love a man, I think he is great, inspired me massively, I really could differ.

“I have a different motive for him and different goals. Don’t get me wrong, I still want to be the best of the best, but the reason why it’s different, I believe. So, maybe this is time to separate.

“No matter what the route is, I no longer follow AJ’s way. This is a delicious Oriein path. And just as he has made a huge impact on the boxing world at the time he grew up making a name for myself, I’m sure I will somehow make some kind of influence, where I can reach different types of people, which would be huge if I could, if I could, if I could could.

“I suppose there is a silver lining for all.”

Future ITAUMA Super-Borba?

It is natural that any new heavyweight appearance is compared to Moses Itau. The 20-year-old Itaum is already closing at the world level.

Orie, of course, is not in the immediate course of collisions with Itaum. But it plans to reach the top echelon of the division and itaum could be at the championship level by the time it gets there.

“I started boxing at the age of 18, and he was the next big deal at the age of 18. We are two different paths on two. So the age doesn’t matter,” Orie said. “It’s about experience and how long you have been building as a professional.”

Many years ago, when itauma was just an amateur with a junior category, Orie paired with him. “Maybe he was 16, 17. I remember he was strong, I remember being really fast and someone I had to really pay attention to when I was sparring,” Orie said. “[I thought] This guy is in it. This guy would take off my chin if I were too slow for a second. “

One day, I hope, the showdown could be a big fight for both of them.

“I think this is likely to happen in the coming years. Indeed, I really assess Moses Itau, I think he is a great fighter and there will be a buildup there in the next few years,” said Orie.

“I sincerely believe it will sell Wembley or Tottenham or wherever one day in the UK.”