Anthony Joshua landed four successive uppercuts before ending fight with vicious KO Francis Ngannou would have been proud of

Anthony Joshua scored a knockout Francis Ngannou would have been proud of when he demolished Kubrat Pulev.

Having avenged his defeat and become two-time heavyweight world champion a year prior, AJ needed to wait One year before getting abet within the ring as boxing became postponed by the COVID pandemic.

When he at remaining did return, Joshua defended the WBA, IBF and WBO belts against IBF important Pulev in a socially distanced Wembley Enviornment.

The venue had a puny ability of correct 1,000 followers because of the circumstances on the time.

In the principle spherical of the fight, both males started tentatively.

On the different hand, it did now not rob lengthy for Joshua to initiate unleashing his devastating combinations.

In spherical three the contest burst into lifestyles as AJ landed an very glorious counter valid hand that wobbled Pulev and compelled him to flip his abet, with the referee giving a depend because of this.

Later within the third, an uppercut toppled the Bulgarian as the Brit scored a 10- 7 spherical.

Remarkably, Pulev returned to his feet and survived the whole manner until spherical 9.

Joshua became dominant within the course of, however the stop got right here in that dramatic ninth spherical.

The champion establish relentless stress on his challenger and as the spherical wore on, he nailed Pulev with four brutal uppercuts in a row.

The brave Bulgarian remained resolute, until he became hit with yet one other three uppercuts which floored him.

Remarkably, Pulev made it to his feet one closing time before being smashed with a additional valid hand from Joshua.

This sent him crashing abet to the canvas for a dramatic one-punch KO.

It became the kind of knockout AJ’s next opponent, famed MMA vitality puncher Ngannou, would have been joyful with himself.

And the pair will meet on Friday evening in Riyadh when followers will glimpse which man’s vitality tells first.