Anthony Joshua

Anthony Joshua has lived every version of the heavyweight fairy tale: Olympic gold in London in 2012, unified world champion by 27, 90,000 at Wembley for the epic knockout of Wladimir Klitschko, and the crashes that came after — Andy Ruiz's shocker (avenged), two chess lessons from Oleksandr Usyk, and the Wembley knockout loss to Daniel Dubois.

The résumé still towers: two reigns as unified champion, wins over Klitschko, Ruiz, Dillian Whyte, Alexander Povetkin, Joseph Parker, and Otto Wallin, and 26 knockouts in 29 wins delivered by one of the most physically imposing frames the division has seen.

The interesting part of late-career Joshua has been the reinvention: the rebuilt team, the looser, more vicious style that produced the brutal knockout of Francis Ngannou in 2024 — a two-round demolition that reminded everyone what the right hand does when the hesitation goes.

At 36 and unranked by The Ring for the moment, Joshua remains British boxing's biggest draw, and the all-British blockbusters — Fury, a Dubois rematch — remain the fights the sport keeps waiting for.