Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois met at Wembley Stadium tonight.
Dubois was making the first defence of his IBF heavyweight title with Joshua looking to become a three-time heavyweight champion.
A record breaking crown of 96,000 were in attendance for the event which is part of Turki Alalshikh’s Riyadh Season.
After a performance from Liam Gallagher, the Saudi and British national anthems it was finally time for the all British heavyweight showdown.
Dubois made a bright start to the opening round and In the last seconds of the round he badly hurt and dropped Joshua.
In the second round Dubois hurt Joshua again and it looked like the fight could be finished at any moment.
Joshua had success in the later stages of the round landing a hard right-hand that Dubois took well.
Round three was much the same with Dubois seemingly able to hurt Joshua at will and heavily dropping him again on the bell.
At the start of the fourth stanza Joshua was dropped again but somehow beat the count but looked on very shaky legs.
Round five Dubois knocks out Joshua!! ‘AJ’ buckled Dubois’ legs and went in for the kill but Dubois landed a shot of his own laying down Joshua on the canvas.
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Dubois put in a career best performance and looked incredible.
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FULL CARD RESULTS:
Daniel Dubois def. Anthony Joshua (KO 5)
Hamza Sheeraz def. Tyler Denny (TKO 2)
Joshua Buatsi def. Willy Hutchinson by split decision (112-113, 117-108, 115-110)
Anthony Cacace def. Josh Warrington by unanimous decision (118-110, 117-111, 117-111)
Josh Kelly def. Ishmael Davis by majority decision (114-114, 115-113, 115-114)
Josh Padley def. Mark Chamberlain by unanimous decision (95-93, 96-92, 96-92)
