A Six Fight Novice Or??????.

On the Wembley undercard, on Saturday night, Anthony Joshua made it six wins out of six as he continues his progression in the professional ranks.

All six of those wins have come by way of knockout, with the win on Saturday against Mark Legg being his fastest ever victory, despite his opponent actually trying to do his best to de-rail the Joshua promotional train.

There?s no doubting that Joshua, the London 2012 super-heavyweight gold medalist, is a tremendous prospect, his physique reminds me of a certain Frank Bruno, and he also has that same loveable demeanour about him that will, as his career progresses, endear him further to the British public.

But the big question remains, just how quickly should Joshua be brought on?

After his emphatic victory over Legg, the promoter Eddie Hearn spoke about getting Joshua a fight, in Liverpool, against the hugely experienced Matt Skelton, a boxer who has a durability about him that should test Joshua and a boxer that has experienced success as a domestic champion.

However, whilst the fight looks a decent one on paper, it should be remembered that Skelton I snow an ageing fighter and one who has been relatively inactive in recent times.

If the fight were to be made, for the end of July, two scenarios could develop.

The first would see Joshua step into the ring and blow his opponent away with the inevitable consequence that accusations would be forthcoming that it was a mismatch, or secondly Skelton would tie Joshua up restricting the leverage the youngster could get, taking the fight into the latter rounds and making it the first points decision Joshua has experienced.

If this were to be the case then it would have proven to be a decent match-up but then again the British public would go away bemoaning the fact that Joshua couldn?t blow an ageing fighter like Skelton away.

As Hearn contemplates developing Joshua with the idea of taking him towards, in the future, a world title scenario, what is developing now shows just how difficult it is to gauge when to step a young, relatively inexperienced boxer up in class.