Anthony Joshua was slaughtered by the younger lion, IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois, dropping by a fifth ound knockout in a completely one-sided combat on Saturday night time at Wembley Stadium in London.
The knockdown got here within the fifth spherical after Joshua had backed Dubois up after beautiful him with a proper hand that had his legs wanting wobbly. Joshua went for the kill and tried to attach with a shot, however Dubois countered him with a proper that put him down arduous on the canvas.
Joshua lay on the canvas, unable to stand up from that knockdown and proceed preventing. He was too harm and had taken an excessive amount of punishment within the earlier rounds.
Wanting cumbersome and slower than ordinary, Joshua (28-4, 20 KOs) was knocked down by a proper hand from Dubois (22-2, 21 KOs) late in spherical one. Joshua by no means appeared to recuperate from that knockdown, as he was
Dubois knocked Joshua down within the third spherical with a proper hand that didn’t look like that onerous of a shot, however AJ acted like a rifle had shot him with the best way he went down.
Within the fourth, Joshua was knocked down once more by Dubois with a robust proper hand. Briefly, it appeared that the combat can be stopped, nevertheless it was allowed to go on regardless of Joshua showing badly harm and uncompetitive.
With the win, Dubois holds onto his IBF title and places Joshua in a foul profession place. He should resolve whether or not to take the rematch, retire, or transfer on.
AJ’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, mentioned after the combat that they’ve a rematch clause and they’d look to combat Dubois once more to attempt to avenge the loss. Nevertheless, if Joshua decides to take that path, he may threat getting despatched into retirement as a result of what we noticed tonight was troubling. Dubois regarded too younger, too robust, and too quick for Joshua.