Anthony Joshua suffered a brutal KO defeat to Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium.
Joshua was aiming to win a slice of heavyweight gold for the third time in his career, but came up against an inspired Dubois who was making the first defence of his new IBF strap.
Many picked Joshua to simply be too much for the 27-year-old but it transpired that it was the other way round.
In round five Joshua had his best moment of the fight and momentarily hurt Dubois before launching a full blown attack as the champion retreated.
But it was Joshua who would end up on the canvas and unable to beat the count when Dubois landed a vicious right-hand counter as Johsua looked for an uppercut.
Moments before the final exchange ‘AJ’ was filmed sticking his tongue out at the crowd and footage of the moment went viral.
But, his trainer Ben Davison has revealed it was just Joshua responding to him.
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Anthony Joshua sticking his tongue out to say I’ve got this under control seconds being being knocked out cold by @DynamiteDubois😂 pic.twitter.com/7SjKVXrQTZ
— Ross McCulloch (@Rossmac212) September 22, 2024
Davison said: “I was asking for something from him and he sort of said ‘I’m OK’ and let me know he’s OK by actually talking in there.
“And then he came back before the last round and just said to me ‘These are the moments that we live for’ and talked about rolling the dice – and that’s what he did.’”
