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AS WAS recently proved by Chris AEubank Jnr versus Liam Smith, picking the outcome of a rematch that follows a surprise result is tricky. Joe Joyce was not supposed to lose to Zhilei Zhang in April and, like Eubank against Smith in January, he certainly wasn’t expected to get stopped. Their immediate return is therefore arguably more compelling than the first encounter, in which Joyce was a healthy favourite.
Let’s be clear; Joyce has never once looked unbeatable. Yet Zhang made him look so beatable, and so ordinary, anyone who was watching Joyce box for the first time would have been astonished by his lofty ranking in the heavyweight division. Perhaps more shocking than
