Anthony Joshua vs Daniel Dubois LIVE RESULT: AJ makes retirement decision after brutal KO defeat – latest updates
ANTHONY JOSHUA was brutally KNOCKED OUT by Daniel Dubois in their Wembley mega-fight in front of a record 96,000 fans.
DDD dropped AJ four times including a lethal finish in the fifth round to bring an end to proceedings.
There were some big moments prior to the main event on Wembley's stacked undercard - Josh Warrington RETIRED after losing to Anthony Cacace while Liam Gallagher provided the music with a three-song set comprising of Oasis anthems.
Having fun until the very end
Seconds before he went out on his shield, Anthony Joshua stuck his tongue out at someone in the crowd.
He was clearly having fun in there, although it was somewhat bizarre for him to be focused on what was going on outside the ring as opposed to Dubois.
Picture the scene
Anthony Joshua discovered the true power of Daniel ‘Dynamite’ Dubois on a humbling night for the former heavyweight champ.
AJ’s face was left distorted and misshapen in a remarkable image from the pair’s brutal IBF world title fight.
All class from AJ
What a bloke Anthony Joshua is.
Even after suffering a crushing defeat that ends his dream of becoming a three-time heavyweight champion, AJ still had time for selfies with fans.
A testament to the measure of the man.
AJ speaks on Dubois
Anthony Joshua had no excuses and was full of praise for opponent Daniel Dubois.
AJ said: “I’m a warrior. And also, before I finish, we have to give credit to our opponent as well, Daniel.
“Even though when I sign up to fight opponents I don’t really like them.
“But now it’s done, I take my hat off to him and say well done to him and his team.”
Dubois demolition job
Daniel Dubois put on a clinic as he outboxed AJ from the first bell at Wembley Stadium.
The 27-year-old lived up to years of promise as he battered the two-time world champion in front of 96,000 fans.
Dynamite wrapped up the victory in the fifth, sending Joshua sprawling to the canvas with a gorgeous right-hand counter-punch.
Channelling his inner Gladiator, Dubois roared to the crowd following his win: “Are you not entertained?”
Buatsi has arm raised
Joshua Buatsi came out on top in his grudge match with Willy Hutchinson - winning via split decision.
One judge OUTRAGEOUSLY scored the contest 113-112 in Hutchinson’s favour.
The other two, however, saw sense – scoring the contest 117-108 and 115-110 in Buatsi’s favour.
Who is Daniel Dubois' trainer Don Charles?
Charles is a 62-year-old boxing trainer who was born in the Republic of Biafra, a war-torn country was independent from Nigeria from 1967 to 1970.
He moved to London when he was 14 with his parents and during his youth got into boxing.
He fought as an amateur at Brixton ABC and later opening up market stalls and clothing shops in the capital.
On the side, he participated in unlicensed fights before going on to work as a doorman after bagging a private security contract.
He even had a few harrowing run-ins with local gangsters and feared he would be shot working one night.
But his big break came when he met Derek Chisora at a petrol station in what was a chance meeting in North London.
The pair chatted and eventually agreed that Charles would become Chisora’s trainer full-time.
In the end, Charles was in Chisora’s corner for the Tyson Fury trilogy, the Dillian White fights and Del Boy’s fierce clash with David Haye at Upton Park.
Charles also engineered victories over Carlos Takam, Malik Scott and Kubrat Pulev.
Sheeraz recap
Check out Wally Downes Jr’s ringside recap of Hamzah Sheeraz’s blistering two-round destruction of Tyler Denny.
Hamzah Sheeraz raced out of the blue corner and out of the red bank zone.
Ahead of the 25-year-old’s middleweight clash with Tyler Denny, 33, the Ilford ace revealed to SunSport that his father had risked £800,000 of the family’s savings and borrowings to launch his career.
And 19 pro wins were still not yet enough to get them into the black.
But his two-round demolition of brave southpaw Denny – as chief support to Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois – should now mean all debts are repaid and he now builds his own empire.
Denny’s brilliant story of rising from fighting in Dudley dives to Wembley stadium – and bouncing back from two defeats – almost ended in the first minute.
Sheeraz – one of the tallest middleweights Britain has ever seen – slashed his temple with a left hook the challenger he had to take a knee.
It looked like he would never recover as his legs turned to jelly but these Black Country boys are tough and he refused to surrender.
But, in the second round, Sheeraz ruthlessly rattled his skull again and, backed into his own red corner, he folded again.
From ringside we could see he would never recover but the warrior in Denny meant he built the count once again beat the count.
But his legs were dancing to a tune that only he could hear, ringing in his battered brain and the ref beautifully saved him from his own courage.
Warrington gracefully bows out
SunSport’s Wally Downes Jr weighs in on Josh Warrington’s ill-fated swansong against Anthony Cacace.
Josh Warrington’s top-flight boxing career appears to have ended after he suffered his third fight on the spin.
The Leeds legend was outpointed by Anthony Cacace, whose IBF super-featherweight world title was banned from being at stake because Warrington had lost his last two.
It went the distance, the doting daddy of two little girls was typically brave.
But he fell well short and – for the sake of his health and his legacy – it’s time to hope he hangs up his gloves after a superb career.
After a decent battle between two friends, the judges called it: 118-110, 117-111 and 117-111.
The opener wasn’t cagey, but it was even.
The 33-year-old Yorkshireman did his trademark Mexican impersonation and tucked up and walked forward throwing hooks.
But Belfast man Cacace caught and countered with long right hands.
Warrington had his head knocked back in the opener but he wasn’t hurt, Cacace had his bushy beard skimmed by a left hook.
The second was an early riser, Cacace played Warrington’s game upclose and personal. The two toughnuts rutted and clinched and shythed at each other as soon as they found an inch of space.
Cacace was brave to surrender his huge physical advantages – looking like a middleweight compared to his foe.
The IBF champ boxed his fight in the third but was always tempted back into the firefight where Warrington thrives.
The classy warriors touched gloves at the end of the third – a magnificently bizarre symbol of the sport, having battered each other for the previous nine minutes.
Warrington got greedy in the fourth pummelling his fists into Cacace’s ribs until he spotted and opening and whacked back.
Wazza was hurt and needed to recover but he regained his senses quickly.
But with every passing punch and seconds, Cacace’s less frequent blows were looking like the punishing ones.
Warrington was never a concussive puncher down at feather, so a step up was never going to help him add to his highlight reel.
Rounds five and six went the same way, try as he might Warrington could not put a dent in the hairy giant who towered over him and looped leather into him whenever in range.
It was competitive and exciting but there was an air of inevitability that Warrington was on course for a horror hat-trick of losses.
The only unknown was wether it would be a points defeat or a late stoppage.
It was hard to watch rounds eight and nine, not because Warrington was getting hurt but because – as darkness fell on Wembley – we were watching the light of his career slowly go out.
Three defeats on the spin is hard sell, even for a local legend who packed the Leeds Arena, Elland Road and Headingley in his beautiful heyday.
The twelfth could not come quick enough – and then it was gone. Warrington as a brilliant little wrecking ball, the dental technician turned world champion had to accept his fourth loss in six fights.
As usual, he tried to go out on his shield but thankfully it ended with a a good, fair flurry and a huge hug between two brilliant veterans.
Sky Sports apology for Liam Gallagher
Boxing fans were left baffled by a “bizarre” Sky Sports apology during Liam Gallagher’s Wembley set.
The Oasis star took to the stage before Anthony Joshua’s IBF showdown with Daniel Dubois, belting out 90s classics Rock ‘n’ Roll Star, Supersonic and Cigarettes & Alcohol in the three-song set.
Gallagher’s shaky performance proved a mixed bag with fans, with some cruelly asking if it was a “tribute act.”
But a Sky Sports apology for “strong language” from the notoriously potty-mouthed frontman was met with incredulity from fight fans.
Picture the scene
Anthony Joshua discovered the true power of Daniel ‘Dynamite’ Dubois on a humbling night for the former heavyweight champ.
AJ’s face was left distorted and misshapen in a remarkable image from the pair’s brutal IBF world title fight on Saturday.
Tyson Fury on AJ’s defeat
Tyson Fury showed his class by refusing to mock Anthony Joshua for his brutal KO loss to Daniel Dubois.
The Gypsy King said: “Listen, it’s heavyweight boxing. It happens, doesn’t it?
“It happened to me, it can happen to anybody.”
All class from AJ
What a bloke Anthony Joshua is.
Even after suffering a crushing defeat that ends his dream of becoming a three-time heavyweight champion, AJ still had time for selfies with fans.
A testament to the measure of the man.
Ringside report
Daniel Dubois wrecked Anthony Joshua’s hopes of a dream career ending with a right-hander for the ages, writes Wally Downes Jr at Wembley.
Dynamite Dan detonated a fifth-round shot — after dropping AJ three times in the previous four rounds — to keep his IBF world title and ruin AJ’s dream spring mega-fight with Tyson Fury.
They were five of the most brilliant rounds imaginable.
Joshua, 34 was cooked from the very start, dazed and confused, bouncing about the ring and then sticking his tongue out and trying to showboat. But it wasn’t funny — and it was potentially the end of an era.
It was also the crowning of 27-year-old Dubois as bona fide world champion and a menace for all of the other heavyweights to now fear.
AJ speaks on Dubois
Anthony Joshua had no excuses and was full of praise for opponent Daniel Dubois.
AJ said: “I’m a warrior. And also, before I finish, we have to give credit to our opponent as well, Daniel.
“Even though when I sign up to fight opponents I don’t really like them.
“But now it’s done, I take my hat off to him and say well done to him and his team.”
Joshua admits mistakes
Anthony Joshua has admitted he made some mistakes in the ring last night during his brutal defeat by Daniel Dubois.
Joshua said: “There’s a few mistakes in there, but that’s the name of the game.
“Fine margins will cost you at the top level. So thank you.”
Gladiator Dan
Dubois was in pure destructive mode last night as he knocked Joshua down four times and stopped him inside five rounds.
"Are you not entertained?", roared Dubois after the fight.
"I'm a gladiator. I am a warrior to the bitter end. I want to get to the top level of this sport and reach my potential."
Credit: AFP Down for the count
Just an unbelievable night at Wembley Stadium.
Joshua's first big stadium fight was at this same arena over seven years ago against Wladimir Klitschko.
And never in his life did he think he would end up like this in the middle of the ring in front of all those people.
Credit: Getty Sky Sports apology for Liam Gallagher
Boxing fans were left baffled by a "bizarre" Sky Sports apology during Liam Gallagher's Wembley set.
The Oasis star took to the stage before Anthony Joshua's IBF showdown with Daniel Dubois, belting out 90s classics Rock 'n' Roll Star, Supersonic and Cigarettes & Alcohol in the three-song set.
Gallagher's shaky performance proved a mixed bag with fans, with some cruelly asking if it was a "tribute act."
But a Sky Sports apology for "strong language" from the notoriously potty-mouthed frontman was met with incredulity from fight fans.
Credit: PA Tyson Fury on AJ's defeat
Tyson Fury showed his class by refusing to mock Anthony Joshua for his brutal KO loss to Daniel Dubois.
The Gypsy King said: “Listen, it’s heavyweight boxing. It happens, doesn’t it?
“It happened to me, it can happen to anybody.”
Credit: Getty AJ speaks on retirement rumours
Anthony Joshua has insisted he will fight ON despite suffering a brutal defeat by Daniel Dubois at Wembley.
AJ addressed the media in his post-fight press conference, and while he didn’t take any questions, bravely spoke about if that was his last fight.
Joshua said: “And you’re probably asking, ‘Do I want to continue fighting?’ Of course I want to continue fighting.
“That’s why I said we took a shot at success and we came up short. And what does that mean right now?
“Are we gonna run away and live to fight another day? And that’s what I am.”
Ringside report
Daniel Dubois wrecked Anthony Joshua’s hopes of a dream career ending with a right-hander for the ages, writes Wally Downes Jr at Wembley.
Dynamite Dan detonated a fifth-round shot — after dropping AJ three times in the previous four rounds — to keep his IBF world title and ruin AJ’s dream spring mega-fight with Tyson Fury.
They were five of the most brilliant rounds imaginable.
Joshua, 34 was cooked from the very start, dazed and confused, bouncing about the ring and then sticking his tongue out and trying to showboat. But it wasn’t funny — and it was potentially the end of an era.
It was also the crowning of 27-year-old Dubois as bona fide world champion and a menace for all of the other heavyweights to now fear.
Dubois demolition job
Daniel Dubois put on a clinic as he outboxed AJ from the first bell at Wembley Stadium.
The 27-year-old lived up to years of promise as he battered the two-time world champion in front of 96,000 fans.
Dynamite wrapped up the victory in the fifth, sending Joshua sprawling to the canvas with a gorgeous right-hand counter-punch.
Channelling his inner Gladiator, Dubois roared to the crowd following his win: "Are you not entertained?"
Credit: Getty Picture the scene
Anthony Joshua discovered the true power of Daniel 'Dynamite' Dubois on a humbling night for the former heavyweight champ.
AJ's face was left distorted and misshapen in a remarkable image from the pair's brutal IBF world title fight.
Joshua admits mistakes
Anthony Joshua has admitted he made some mistakes in the ring last night during his brutal defeat by Daniel Dubois.
Joshua said: "There’s a few mistakes in there, but that's the name of the game.
"Fine margins will cost you at the top level. So thank you."