Anthony Joshua loses all his belts to Oleksandr Usyk
Yet again we will have to wait for a rematch to see if AJ can reclaim all his belts after losing them to a much better boxer in Oleksandr Usyk
- Anthony Joshua's second reign as heavyweight champion has come to an end after defeat by Oleksandr Usyk .
- The British star came unstuck against former unified cruiserweight champion Usyk in Tottenham, London .
- Joshua, 31, was unable to find his range with Usyk's surgical precision bamboozling the heavyweight king.
- The three ringside judges scored the fight 117-112, 116-112, 115-113 in the Ukrainian star's favour.
- Joshua's defeat in London has served a devastating blow to his £200million mega-fight with Tyson Fury.
This is the 2nd time a run of the mill fight on his path to a re-unification of ALL the Heavyweight belts has been stopped by a loss. The first being to Andy Ruiz Jr. Anthony Joshua lost all three of his IBF, WBA and WBO heavyweight titles after being stopped in the seventh round by huge outsider Andy Ruiz Jr at Madison Square Gardens in New York. You can watch the re-match here on my site > AJ reclaims his belts from Ruiz Jr.
With Anthony Johnson just losing all his belts yet again to Oleksandr Usyk by unanimous decision after being outfoxed and out boxed by the speedy Ukrainian over 12 rounds in Tottenham just a week before the Trilogy of fights between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder were about to fight, it looked like their bout would not be happening, and an all English Heavyweight Unification fight would not occur at all.
Anthony Joshua vs Oleksandr Usyk - Full Fight From Sky Sports
You can watch Anthony Joshua getting demolished here if you want. It was a real shock to UK fans and probably AJ himself to find he was on the losing side yet again and will have to hope to reclaim his title belts in a re-match yet again!
Whether AJ has the skill to train and then beat Usyk before Tyson retires I don't know, but the plan was for Tyson to have one more fight to re-unify all the belts and had it been two Englishmen boxing for that event which we haven't seen in a long time.
It would have been amazing for English Boxing especially if they had fought in the UK. Maybe at Wembley or the O2 arena, can you imagine it, a UK fight, fought at a time fit for English people not American's so that we don't have to stay up until 5am to watch a scrap in Las Vegas. The queues for tickets would have stretched for miles and miles.
What did you think of the fight?
Has AJ lost it after this 2nd defeat in 3 fights?
Will he be able to re-claim his belts in a re-match with Usyk? Or will h never hold a title belt again?
Could AJ beat Fury if they did fight?
Would you prefer to see AJ fighting Fury, or a rematch with Usyk?
Do you want AJ to reclaim all his belts before an all UK fight to re-unify ALL the heavyweight belts fought somewhere in the UK?
Personally I want to see a re-unification fight for ALL the belts, whoever holds them, and then for all the heavyweight belts to be scrapped and just one heavyweight belt made that the winner gets. Let's join up the WBA, WBO, WBC, IBF, IBO titles and any others like the Lineal title and Ring Magazine belts. So that there is only ever one Heavyweight champion which would mean boxers had no excuse to ignore fights and keep one belt and all would be fighting to get that single no 1 spot in the world.
Having too many heavyweight belts (also any division), makes it seem watered down to me. When AJ had a set of belts but no-one would fight him, and he had trouble getting the fights he wanted, with one belt this would not happen. Tell me what you think?
I want to see a reunification fight between Tyson and AJ but if AJ cannot beat Usyk before the match then I want to see Tyson fight Usyk so there "Is only one" as they say in Highlander. I want ONE heavyweight champion that everyone has to fight, no skipping opponents with certain belts because you think you might get beaten and the IBF belt is within your reach. They should melt down the WBO, WBF, WBC, IBF and all other belts and make a single heavyweight champion of the world belt for the top fighter.
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