Anthony Joshua’s recent win against Andy Ruiz Jr has catapulted him atop the latest heavyweight rankings while Tyson Fury is surprisingly booted out of the top three.
The Watforn-born heavyweight recpatured the unified heavyweight titles last Saturday after a unanimous decision win against Ruiz Jr in their rematch dubbed as the Clash On The Dunes.
Now a two-time heavyweight champion of the world, AJ joined an elite club of heavyweights who reclaimed a world title in a direct rematch along with Muhammad Ali, Lennox Lewis, and Floyd Patterson.
“I respect Andy and his trainer so much but I wanted to put on a great master class and show that the sweet science of this sport is about hitting and not getting hit,” he said in the post fight interview.
“As I always say, I’m not perfect but I’m trying. Never a change in mentality.”
“You know the saying — stay hungry, stay humble. I’m hungry, I’m humble in defeat and I’m going to remain humble in victory.”
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The win did not just help Joshua regained his status as a global boxing phenomenon but also steered him on top of BoxRec’s latest heavyweight rankings.
Aside from Joshua, there are six other British boxers on the list including ‘The Gypsy King,’ who is a surprise omission in the top three.
The troika of Joshua, Fury, and Deontay Wilder has been regarded by many as the top three of boxing’s heavyweight division but the Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk has overtaken Fury in the rankings.
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Best In The World
Fury will face Wilder in their rematch on February 2020, following his back-to-back wins against Tom Schwarz and Otto Wallin.
Meanwhile, Wilder, the current WBC heavyweight champion, is coming off a sensational knockout win against Luiz Ortiz and has declared himself as the best heavyweight in the world at the moment.
“How can no one say I’m not the very best in the world now?” he told The Atlantic.
“”I’ve given you what you pay for each and every time, especially when we’re talking about a heavyweight bout.”
“Fans come to see knockouts. They come to see something dramatic — a body lying on the canvas, spread like it’s having birth.”
“That’s what people want to see, and that’s my mentality.”
The power hitter from Alabama has vowed to finish Fury in their upcoming rematch while dismissing a potential unification bout with Joshua.
“We’ll never see it, and I don’t want people to get their hopes up on it because it’ll never happen.”
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