Daniel Dubois recorded a knockout win towards Anthony Joshua to retain the Worldwide Boxing Federation (IBF) world heavyweight title.
Dubois noticed off Joshua within the fifth spherical to document the largest win of his profession in entrance of 96,000 followers at Wembley Stadium on Saturday.
The 27-year-old who dropped Joshua a number of instances, landed an an unimaginable counter proper hook to finish Joshua’s bid to change into a three-time champion.
Joshua has now suffered his fourth loss in his skilled profession, twice towards Oleksandr Usyk and Andy Ruiz.
The early knockdown got here within the first spherical from Dubois when he linked with an outstanding overhand proper within the closing seconds which noticed Joshua slumped to the canvas and had nonetheless not recovered within the second.
Joshua was reeling within the third as a pumped-up Dubois whipped in a left hook and Joshua appeared to the touch the ground together with his glove. It was not counted as a knockdown, however Dubois continued the assault till Joshua was floored once more.
He was dropped twice within the third – the second dominated a slip however the writing was clearly on the wall.
After a more in-depth fourth spherical, Joshua, for the primary time within the struggle, landed a clear punch within the fifth, just for it to spur Dubois into motion.
A counter right-hand, despatched Joshua down for the ultimate time. He was left scrambling throughout the ground, desperately making an attempt to rise up, however unable to beat the rely.
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