• Amnesty claims rematch is to ‘sportswash’ image of regime• ‘I’m there to fight,’ says Briton of Clash of the DunesA defiant Anthony Joshua has attempted to slip condemnation from human rights organisations about staging his WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight rematch against Andy Ruiz Jr in
Saudi Arabia by insisting he is not a superhero who can solve the world’s problems by himself.
On the third stage of his whistlestop tour to promote the fight – which has taken in Diriyah, near Riyadh, and
New York in the space of 48 hours – the Guardian asked Joshua about Amnesty International’s criticisms that the £83m event, billed as the Clash of the Dunes, was being used to “sportswash” the image of a regime that beheads people in public, arrests
protesters, and discriminates widely against women.