Within the latest match setting a file crowd of 96,000 at Wembley Enviornment, Wembley, UK, Saturday, former heavyweight champion and Olympic Gold Medalist ‘AJ’ Anthony Joshua, 28-4), was upset by IBF Interim champ Daniel ‘Dynamite’ Dubois, 22-2, by knockout in 5 rounds.
Of their press convention previous to the combat, Joshua received up and challenged Dubois, inflicting a ruckus. Dubois stood his floor when the press convention was stopped. Little did Joshua know that days later, resulting from his vanity, he can be knocked out by Dubois.
Talking of heavyweight fights prior to now in September of 1985 heavyweight champion Larry ‘The Easton Murderer’ Holmes was 48-0, and about to equal the file of Rocky Marciano, 49-0 with a victory over mild heavyweight champion Michael ’Jinx’ Spinks, 27-0, over 15 rounds.
It was Ring Journal’s 1985 Upset of the 12 months. Afterward, the conceited Holmes mentioned, “Marciano couldn’t put on my jockstrap!” Nothing about Spinks who beat him!
In March of 1971, former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, 31-0, after getting back from 3 years of compelled inactivity because of the New York Fee taking his license and when given again after a pair of victories Ali signed to recapture his title dealing with one other Olympic Gold Medalist who then held the heavyweight title in “Smokin” Joe Frazier, 26-0, at Madison Sq. Backyard, New York.
Going into the fifteenth and remaining spherical, Ali was behind in rounds 8-6, 9-6, and 11-4, needing a knockout. It was Frazier dropping Ali within the first minute of the spherical, although it was Frazier who had swelling round each eyes virtually closed on the finish per ring commentator who, after the combat, mentioned, “Frazier is sitting on his stool trying sick” when it was introduced he was the winner. He was later taken to a hospital. Ali, struggling his first defeat, had a swollen jaw however was not off to a hospital.
Joshua, Holmes, and Ali’s vanity caught as much as them in defeat.
