This time, the intrigue was extinguished quickly, Joshua threw his opponent to the floor in the first round, and in the second, after another knockdown, he simply “turned off” with a terrible blow.
When Ngannou finally regained consciousness after the knockout, Joshua tried to cheer him up, telling him not to quit boxing.
After the fight, Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn claimed that Joshua was the best heavyweight boxer to face Fury.
Earlier, New Zealand’s Joseph Parker, despite two knockdowns, convincingly beat China’s boxer Gillie Zhang on points for his second consecutive victory against the favourite. Most recently, he completely disarmed the owner of a terrible blow, the American Deontay Wilder.
The 37-year-old Ngannou made his professional boxing debut last October when he lost to Fury on points in a similar fight. He now has two fights, two losses.
The 34-year-old Joshua has 31 fights behind him in the professional ring, in which he scored 28 victories, including in 2016 over Wladimir Klitschko, 26 fights were won by knockout, and experienced three losses. He experienced his first loss when he sensationally surrendered to the fat Andy Ruiz Jr. in 2018, but in the rematch he convincingly won when the opponent had become completely fat. Twice he conceded the superiority of the still undefeated Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk, never being able to use his fearsome jab in either fight as Usyk outboxed him.
2024-03-09 00:59:53
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