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I came across it in this article.
WBA world super-middleweight champion Callum Smith: "If Ruiz wins again I wouldn't be one bit surprised. I do think you'll see a more switched-on Joshua who is more like Lennox Lewis and Wladimir Klitschko. It could be boring but I'm going Joshua late."
Go with something/someone can be used to indicate your choice:
go with somethig
2. Fig. to choose something (over something else).
I think I'll go with the yellow one. We decided to go with the oak table rather than the walnut one.
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My first thought was that with was elided by the speaker. This is fine in casual speech. However, I think you could also simply take go to mean choose, or predict. One way to see this is that we can use go to mean bet:
go v.tr.
4. Informal
a. To bet: go $20 on the black horse.
We often say bet something will happen (without actually wagering anything) simply to give a prediction, guess, or opinion.
In other words, go (with) Joshua tells us that the speaker predicts Joshua will be the eventual winner. Late just tells us when he will win. A more formal sentence would be:
I predict Joshua will win late in the fight.
It means that the commentator thinks that Joshua is going to win the fight in the later rounds.
