His deserved success also scuppered immediate plans for Joshua to fight fellow British world champion Tyson Fury in a heavyweight unification bout. But none of that made much difference as he followed David Ruiz in becoming just the second professional boxer to defeat Joshua. Usyk, moving well, continued to prove a difficult target to hit during the second round and the southpaw staggered Joshua with a powerful roundhouse left-hand punch to the head in the third. Joshua, however, was making inroads with a cut emerging under Usyk’s right eye in the fourth round. xAnd come the sixth round, Joshua started to close the distance between himself and the challenger, landing a couple of stinging shots.

Source: The Guardian September 25, 2021 22:52 UTC