{"id":52475,"date":"2021-09-26T00:54:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T23:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=52475"},"modified":"2021-09-26T00:54:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T23:54:16","slug":"anthony-joshua-loses-titles-before-home-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/anthony-joshua-loses-titles-before-home-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua Loses Titles Before Home Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Boxing champion Anthony Joshua Saturday evening lost to Oleksandr Usyk at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in front of his English fans.<\/p>\n<p>The implication is that Oleksandr Usyk from Ukraine has won<br \/>\nthe WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO heavyweight world titles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52477\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-20210926-WA0000-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-20210926-WA0000-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-20210926-WA0000-110x76.jpg 110w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-20210926-WA0000-420x291.jpg 420w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-20210926-WA0000.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Usyk dominated from the first bell, outclassing Joshua with a sublime performance in front of 67,000 fans in London.<\/p>\n<p>Scores of 117-112, 116-112 and 115-113 were just reward after a sensational display from the unbeaten Usyk, who became only the third fighter after Evander Holyfield and David Haye to win world titles at cruiserweight and heavyweight.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52478\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-20210926-WA0001-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The fight promoter Eddie Hearn confirmed it was a tough match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke to him (Joshua), obviously it was a tough fight, a gruelling fight &#8230; a devastating defeat.,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulating Usyk, the promoter said the better man won the fight.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Congrats to Usyk, what a fighter, the better man won. The danger was always that you overthink it and try to be too technical and don\u2019t use your attributes &#8230; it was all the things you worry about against a fighter like Usyk.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52480\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-20210926-WA0003-1-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No complaints from AJ, he\u2019ll get up, and he\u2019ll go again. This was just being beat by a better man on the night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got to make changes in the rematch, because if that happens again, of course, he\u2019ll get beat &#8230; that for me was an average performance from Anthony Joshua.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He can do so much better in that fight but he\u2019s facing the best consistently. You can\u2019t have it both ways, fighters should take on the very best. It was a high-level fight, there\u2019s no point sulking about it you say: \u2018I\u2019ll go back to the drawing board and I\u2019ll go again,\u201d Hearn said after the match.<\/p>\n<p>Born Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua, OBE on 15 October 1989 to Nigeria father, he is a British professional boxer who is also a two-time unified world heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n<p>He held the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, and IBO titles from December 2019 to September 2021, and previously between 2016 and June 2019.<\/p>\n<p>By Dayo Emmanuel.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>champion Anthony Joshua Saturday evening lost to Oleksandr Usyk at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in front of his English fans.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":52476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[9052,9053],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-52475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","tag-anthony-joshua-saturday","tag-oleksandr-usyk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Anthony Joshua Loses Titles Before Home Fans - National Wire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/anthony-joshua-loses-titles-before-home-fans\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anthony Joshua Loses Titles Before Home Fans - National Wire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"champion Anthony Joshua Saturday evening lost to Oleksandr Usyk at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in front of his English fans.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/anthony-joshua-loses-titles-before-home-fans\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"National Wire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-25T23:54:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-20210925-WA0027.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"566\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"360\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Friday Ekeoba\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/\",\"name\":\"National Wire\",\"description\":\"About Nigerians, Nigerian Business and Other Stories\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/anthony-joshua-loses-titles-before-home-fans\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-20210925-WA0027.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-20210925-WA0027.jpg\",\"width\":566,\"height\":360},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/anthony-joshua-loses-titles-before-home-fans\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/anthony-joshua-loses-titles-before-home-fans\/\",\"name\":\"Anthony Joshua Loses Titles Before Home Fans - National Wire\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/anthony-joshua-loses-titles-before-home-fans\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-25T23:54:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-09-25T23:54:16+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#\/schema\/person\/e2ab303e561d755b325fc9cea3854927\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/anthony-joshua-loses-titles-before-home-fans\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/anthony-joshua-loses-titles-before-home-fans\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/anthony-joshua-loses-titles-before-home-fans\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Anthony Joshua Loses Titles Before Home Fans\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#\/schema\/person\/e2ab303e561d755b325fc9cea3854927\",\"name\":\"Friday Ekeoba\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/author\/friday\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Anthony Joshua Loses Titles Before Home Fans - National Wire","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/anthony-joshua-loses-titles-before-home-fans\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Anthony Joshua Loses Titles Before Home Fans - National Wire","og_description":"champion Anthony Joshua Saturday evening lost to Oleksandr Usyk at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in front of his English fans.","og_url":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/anthony-joshua-loses-titles-before-home-fans\/","og_site_name":"National Wire","article_published_time":"2021-09-25T23:54:16+00:00","og_image":[{"width":566,"height":360,"url":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-20210925-WA0027.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Friday Ekeoba","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#website","url":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/","name":"National Wire","description":"About Nigerians, Nigerian Business and Other Stories","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/anthony-joshua-loses-titles-before-home-fans\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-20210925-WA0027.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-20210925-WA0027.jpg","width":566,"height":360},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/anthony-joshua-loses-titles-before-home-fans\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/anthony-joshua-loses-titles-before-home-fans\/","name":"Anthony Joshua Loses Titles Before Home Fans - National Wire","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/anthony-joshua-loses-titles-before-home-fans\/#primaryimage"},"datePublished":"2021-09-25T23:54:16+00:00","dateModified":"2021-09-25T23:54:16+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#\/schema\/person\/e2ab303e561d755b325fc9cea3854927"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/anthony-joshua-loses-titles-before-home-fans\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/anthony-joshua-loses-titles-before-home-fans\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/anthony-joshua-loses-titles-before-home-fans\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Anthony Joshua Loses Titles Before Home Fans"}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/#\/schema\/person\/e2ab303e561d755b325fc9cea3854927","name":"Friday Ekeoba","url":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/author\/friday\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52481,"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52475\/revisions\/52481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52475"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=52475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}