Unique & very hard to beat
LIKE a 19-stone, monosyllabic metaphor for life itself, heavyweight Joe Joyce offers opponents so much hope and opportunity only to then later wear them out, grind them down, and eventually leave them in a heap, their world view changed, their every dream crushed.
At Wembley Arena, the “Juggernaut” was at it again, the opponent this time Romania’s Christian Hammer, a man who has seen a thing or two in his 14-year professional career.
Unlikely is it, however, that Hammer, 27-10 (17), will have seen anything like Joe Joyce before. Nor, for that matter, is it likely he will have been involved in a fight in which for two rounds he felt so much positivity, yet, three minutes later, found himself crying out for an escape.
In the end, Hammer found this escape
