Anthony Joshua (29-4, 27ko’s) transformed British boxing.
One of the UK’s biggest sports stars of all time, Joshua made selling out stadiums the norm.
A meteoric rise navigated by Eddie Hearn and Matchroom Boxing saw ‘AJ’ go from an Olympic gold medalist to a two time unified heavyweight champion of the world.
Knocking out Wladimir Klitschko (64-5, 53ko’s) at Wembley Stadium is widely regarded as the biggest night in British Boxing history.
Most recently, AJ ended a period of inactivity by knocking out Jake Paul (12-2, 7ko’s) live on Netflix in front of 33 million viewers.
This raised Joshua’s commercial draw to another level, and a big 2026 was planned.
Many fight fans were starting to believe that the highly anticipated fight against Tyson Fury (34-2-1, 24ko’s).
However, Anthony Joshua was in a tragic car crash in Nigeria last December, where close friends Sima Ghani and Latfi Ayodele lost their lives.
The boxing world continues to share their thoughts and feelings with everyone associated to these tragic events.
Unsurprisingly, this put boxing on the back burner for Joshua, who had to recover both physically and mentally.
Promoter Eddie Hearn has been quizzed time and time again on the future of his flagship fighter.
Eddie Hearn shared an Instagram story of him and Joshua, with a loading bar above the photo.
The level of opponent for his next fight is unknown, and questions will be asked as to whether the plan is to roll the dice and go straight in with Tyson Fury.
One thing is for certain is that the heavyweight division is in a better place when Anthony Joshua is active.
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