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NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Deontay Wilder will have one eye on a future super-fight with Anthony Joshua on Saturday when he defends his World Boxing Council heavyweight title against Canadian challenger Bermane Stiverne in New York. Wilder (38-0, with 37 KOs) faces Stiverne for the second time, two years after winning the title from the 39-year-old in a one-sided unanimous victory in Las Vegas in January 2015. The Canadian earned another crack at […]
by Nick Parkinson Agence France Presse CARDIFF, United Kingdom (AFP) — Anthony Joshua maintained his 100 per cent knockout ratio by stopping a bloodied Carlos Takam in the tenth round on Saturday. The English boxer retained his International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Association world heavyweight titles with a devastating display of his punching power to finish Cameroon’s France-based challenger at the Principality Stadium. Takam became Joshua’s 20th consecutive knockout victim in a fourth defence […]
by Nick Parkinson Agence France Presse CARDIFF, United Kingdom (AFP) — Anthony Joshua hopes a successful fourth title defense in Cardiff on Saturday will keep him on course to achieve his goal of becoming undisputed world heavyweight champion in 2018. Not every fight can be career-defining and Cameroon’s France-based Carlos Takam, Joshua’s opponent at the Principality Stadium, is hardly one of the biggest stars in the heavyweight division over which British boxer Joshua currently rules. […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) –Frenchman Carlos Takam will fight titleholder Anthony Joshua for the IBF world heavyweight crown on October 28th after the original challenger Kubrat Pulev suffered a shoulder injury, fight promoter Eddie Hearn announced Monday. Cameroon-born Takam, 36, is ranked third by the governing body and Hearn revealed he had told him to be on standby in case something happened to Pulev. The 36-year-old Bulgarian — who lost his only world title fight […]
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom (AFP) — Anthony Joshua says the size of the occasion will not get to him when he takes on Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley on April 29 in “the biggest fight in British boxing history”. The Briton quickly disposed of American Eric Molina in a third round stoppage win on Saturday and his next title defence against Klitschko was then immediately announced from the ring. Joshua, 27, made a second defence of his […]
