Alexander Povetkin was in a good shape and correctly led the fight with Anthony Joshua, but missed one punch and AJ no longer missed the opportunity to end the fight by knockout. This opinion was expressed by Denis Lebedev.
WBA lightweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko wants to fight in the UK. Almost all his fights as a pro the Ukrainian had in the US, one more time he went to the ring in Macao when he appeared on the undercard of Manny Pacquiao vs Chris Algieri fight.
Just after the battle of the heavyweights Anthony Joshua and Alexander Povetkin promoter Eddie Hearn began to promote in UK another megafight: Alexander Usyk vs Tony Bellew, where four cruiserweight belts of the Ukrainian are at stake. The duel, which could be the last in this division for Usyk, will be on November 10 at the Manchester Arena.
IBF, WBA, WBO and IBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua called the undisputed cruiserweight champion Alexander Usyk the best P4P boxer of the world. On September 22 Joshua knocked out Alexander Povektin.
Alexander Povetkin needed first aid after a knockout from Anthony Joshua in the battle for WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO heavyweight titles. The fight between Povetkin and Joshua, the main event of the boxing evening at the Wembley Stadium in London, ended by a victory for the British by knockout in the 7th round.
In the main event of the evening at Wembley Stadium in London, Anthony Joshua (22-0, 21 KOs) scored a TKO victory in the seventh round over the former world champion Alexander Povetkin (34-2, 24 KOs) and defended his heavyweight titles. The time was 1:59.
In the main event of the undercard of the boxing evening at Wembley, Luke Campbell (19-2, 15 KOs) took revenge over Yvan Mendy (40-5-1, 19 KOs), winning a unanimous decision. The scores were: 119-109, 118-111, 116-112. Thus, Campbell won the status of official contender for the WBC lightweight title, which is currently owned by Mikey Garcia.
In one of the undercard fights at the Wembley Stadium in London, in the very unspectacular confrontation, Lawrence Okolie (10-0, 7 KOs) scored a unanimous decision over Matty Askin (23-4-1, 15 KOs) and took his British cruiserweight title. The scores were: 116-110, 114-112, 114-113.
At the boxing evening at Wembley, the bronze medalist of the Olympic Games David Price (22-6, 18 KOs) lost his next fight to Sergei Kuzmin (13-0, 10 KOs). After quite interesting four rounds, the advantage in which was mostly for Kuzmin, Price refused to continue the fight during the break, citing the injury to the right bicep.
A live broadcast of the boxing evening, in the main event of which the fans will see the confrontation between two heavyweight Olympic champions, Anthony Joshua and Alexander Povetkin. There will be three champion titles, WBA, IBF and WBO at the stake of the meeting, which will be on September 22 at the 90-thousand arena of the Wembley Stadium in London.
