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RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA

DECEMBER 23

THE OLD Anthony Joshua is certainly not the new Anthony Joshua.

In the Riyadh ring, at about 3am and against a silent backdrop, there was a new, smarter, more mobile Anthony Joshua against Otto Wallin. It might just be the best version yet.

An hour before Joshua revealed himself, we all got to see the very worst version of in his fight with . Two fights, two long hours and the perfect end to the Day of Reckoning, a night of fights that sailed past midnight with ease. Joshua-Wilder fight in March was one victim on a night of suffering. That fight sailed off

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