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WEMBLEY
SEPTEMBER 24
MAIN EVENT
UNDERCARD
ATMOSPHERE
AS ALL 20 stone of Joe Joyce crashed first to his knees and then flat on his face near the centre of the ring canvas late on Saturday night, a shrill scream pierced the atmosphere inside the Wembley Arena and it did not stop.
Given the outcome of the first fight, and Zhilei Zhang’s pre-fight promise to blast Joyce into retirement, this most chilling third-round conclusion should not have been too surprising to anyone.
But that moment, mere seconds before the end of the round, closed the book on this chapter in British boxing; of Joyce and his indestructible chin; of the unstoppable ‘Juggernaut’. But for anyone with genuine concern for the man’s health,
