Anthony Joshua: record, next fight and profile →
Eddie Hearn has always been incredibly confident in Anthony Joshua. But, following a rough stretch in 2022, the longtime promoter admitted that Joshua needed to start from the ground up.
MMA veteran Francis Ngannou will push for a future rematch with WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury - and it doesn't matter if Fury is successful in his upcoming assignment.
Shelly Finkel, co-manager for former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, believes an impressive showing could get his fighter back in position for a showdown with Anthony Joshua.
According to heavyweight contender Martin Bakole, WBC world champion Tyson Fury was not exactly training at full speed for last October's crossover boxing match with Francis Ngannou.
Anthony Joshua was finally supposed to fight Deontay Wilder, but the Bronze Bomber busted the big fight and opportunity by losing in the co-main event of the Day of Reckoning card in Saudi Arabia last month to Joseph Parker.
A resurgent Anthony Joshua has high hopes for 2024. After impressively beating Otto Wallin in December, the two- time unified heavyweight champion probably thought he would spend the first few weeks of the year preparing for a shootout with Deontay Wilder. Instead, Joshua is about to begin training for an equally explosive contest with former UFC heavyweight champion, Francis Ngannou.
Daniel Cormier is backing fellow former UFC champion Francis Ngannou in his upcoming fight against British superstar Anthony Joshua. In his second professional fight as a boxer, Ngannou will go up against the former two-time heavyweight champion on March 8 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Anthony Joshua went from dominant world champion to a shaky middling contender. After suffering back-to-back losses to Oleksandr Usyk, Joshua (27-3, 24 KOs) attempted to shake things up in his camp. However, despite enlisting the help of a new coach and bagging wins over Jermaine Franklin and Robert Helenius, the now 34-year-old never looked sharp with Derrick James manning his corner.
MMA veteran Francis Ngannou is scheduled to collide with former two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua on March 8 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Five years ago, it’d be a no brainer. The unbeaten version of Anthony Joshua was coming off KOs of Wladimir Klitschko and Alexander Povetkin, among others. He was big and strong and aggressive and confident and appeared to be the British export who'd dominate the heavyweight division into the 2020s.