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Published 15:21 30 Mar 2018 BST
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"Just because I'm the most muscly man, it doesn't mean I can just hit someone and knock them out.
"It's the shot that you don't see coming that knocks you out.
"When I'm quicker – bang, bang, bang – that's when I can knock my opponents down a lot easier."
At the beginning of the year, Joshua's head coach Robert McCracken set the 28-year-old a target of 17st 10lbs in the hope that Joshua would be more mobile in the ring.
"The emphasis is on being as quick as possible and taking as little punishment, [being] a bit lighter would allow him to do that," McCracken told BBC Radio 5 live's boxing podcast in January.
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