By Dethroned Anthony Joshua is set to go to the hospital to check a suspected broken eye socket, after he was dealt massive blows by Oleksandr Usyk.
Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn, who made this announcement moments after he lost to Oleksandr Usyk of Ukraine on Saturday in London, said also that his fighter was “devastated” by the defeat.
He however acknowledged that the Joshua camp had no reservations about the result, and the better fighter won the bout.
Usyk dethroned Joshua in his own backyard with a stunning display to earn a unanimous points decision in front of a sell-out crowd at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Ukrainian boxer, giving away height, weight, and reach to the champion, proved too elusive for Joshua throughout an enthralling contest and landed the much cleaner shots.
Joshua, who lost his IBF, WBA and WBO titles to Usyk was badly hurt in the third round, as he had a swelling injury on his right eye.
Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua, born October 15, 1989 is a British professional boxer. He is a two-time former unified world heavyweight champion, having held the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, and IBO titles from December 2019 to September 2021, and previously between 2016 and June 2019. At regional level, he held the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles from 2015 to 2016.
As an amateur, Joshua represented England at the 2011 World Championships in the super-heavyweight division, winning a silver medal. He also represented Great Britain at the 2012 Olympics, winning gold.
In 2014, a year after turning professional, he was named Prospect of the Year by The Ring magazine. In 2017, his victorious fight against Wladimir Klitschko was named Fight of the Year by The Ring and the Boxing Writers Association of America.
Joshua is the second British boxer, after James DeGale, to win both a gold medal at the Olympics and a world title by a major professional sanctioning body, as well as the first British heavyweight to do so.
