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THE Anthony Joshua show rolls on – but for how long? This isn’t a question of how much Joshua has left as a fighter, but rather as a commodity. He remains one of the most marketable fighters on the planet, but it seems increasingly likely that those heady nights of his peak are firmly behind us.

On Saturday night he huffed and puffed before eventually doing what so many had paid to see him do: render poor Robert Helenius horizontal. The show, broadcast on DAZN, had all the trappings of an ‘AJ’ event – pyrotechnics, celebrities, being played 735 times –

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