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WBA\IBO和IBF重量级冠军安东尼.约书亚的下一个卫冕战已经迫在眉睫，日期和地点尚未确定，10月28日在加的夫或者11月11日在最受欢迎的拉斯维加斯的t-mobile竞技场。
约书亚说；“我的粉丝希望我在英国打比赛，那样他们就不用坐飞机满世界跑了，但我也很喜欢拉斯维加斯。很不幸，小科里钦科退休了，现在我必须面对我的强制性挑战者了。
我被IBF要求面对普列夫的战斗已经持续了一年，WBA两个月之前又要求我打奥提兹。如果普列夫是我的下一个，管委会不会剥夺我的头衔，我可以先打奥提兹。我喜欢为金腰带而战，希望能有一个好的解决方式”。
Anthony Joshua wants his next fight to be staged at Cardiff's Principality Stadium despite the prospect of facing Kubrat Pulev in Las Vegas.
The WBA, IBO and IBF heavyweight champion's next title defence is to be announced imminently, with only the location and date to be decided between Cardiff on October 28 - the favourite - or Vegas' T-Mobile Arena on November 11.
His team remain hopeful Luis Ortiz, the mandatory challenger to his WBA title, and the governing body will remain patient so that he can honour a prior agreement with the IBF and Bulgaria's Pulev without being stripped.
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He is regardless willing to risk that development in the hope he can fight Ortiz thereafter, but despite a rematch in Vegas with the retired Wladimir Klitschko once appearing a near-certainty, a domestic fight is his biggest concern.
"I'm not turning Vegas down, I'd go, but for the people it's easier," Joshua, 27, told Press Association Sport.
"My heart always tells me the UK, because a lot of people that have supported me since the amateurs are from here, and it gives them a chance to come down and watch a heavyweight title fight without having to travel.
"I know people will always make the effort but sometimes you want to make it as easy as possible for them.
"Klitschko's unfortunately retired: it was a fight I was looking forward to again, but everything happens for a reason and now I have to go and compete with one of my mandatory challengers.
"My mandatory with Pulev has been ongoing for a year. The mandatory with Luis Ortiz has been going on for two months; I've had obligations in place for the past year. (The IBF) let me and Klitschko have a unification fight. We had to sign an agreement that straight after the Klitschko fight (I would fight Pulev), provided there's not a rematch."
Shortly after Klitschko announced his retirement the WBA ordered Joshua to defend their title against Ortiz, and the Cuban's manager insisted they could be ready for November 11.
They could yet strip Joshua amid him persisting with the Pulev match-up, but Joshua hopes to retain both of his titles and is willing to then face the dangerous southpaw.
"I'd fight Ortiz next if he was the next person in line before Pulev," he said. "My team, we sit down and talk, figure out what's best and move forward. I love fighting for the belts; it's history, but what's advised for me and my career in the long term has to be weighed up.
"I would definitely fight my two mandatories because they're exciting: it's just if one's patient or wants the belts now. People just say they want to fight me: they don't really want to fight me, just the rewards that come with fighting me. They'll get their turn.
"As long as (boxing's political landscape) doesn't stop me from fighting. The rules and regulations have to be in place to make it interesting: no problem. If that's the case, if I have to get stripped, no problem at all."
:: Anthony Joshua was speaking as part of StubHub's The London Manathon campaign together with Eddie Hall, World's Strongest Man. Tickets to see Eddie Hall at the Giants Live: Official World's Strongest Man Tour Finals are available on Stubhub.co.uk.
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