IN THE wee hours of the morning in Saudi Arabia on March 9, Anthony Joshua restored some of boxing’s lost honour when he knocked out Francis Ngannou in the second round.
Nothing in boxing comes easily, but ‘AJ’ made it look that way.
Ngannou, a 37-year-old UFC veteran, acquitted himself well in losing a split-decision in his boxing debut against an undertrained, out-of-shape Tyson Fury on October 28. Against Joshua, he looked like the novice that he is.
March 8 (which was when the nine-hour fight-card began) was originally allotted to Joshua vs Deontay Wilder. But Wilder turned in a dreadful performance in losing a lopsided decision to Joseph Parker in Riyadh on December 23, and the numbers for Joshua-Wilder no longer added up. In today’s world where “trash-boxing” is often taken as
