{"id":673585,"date":"2026-07-04T15:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T15:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673585\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T15:17:09","slug":"people-said-i-should-retire-anthony-joshua-names-the-two-best-wins-of-his-33-fight-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673585\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;People said I should retire&#8221;: Anthony Joshua names the two best wins of his 33 fight career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Joshua has named the two standout wins of his career, remembering the immense pressure attached to both contests.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of magnitude, it must be said that his showdown with Wladimir Klitschko was the most significant, given the manner in which it unfolded at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, in April 2017, Joshua was the unbeaten IBF champion and had won every fight by stoppage, swiftly becoming the biggest star in British boxing.<\/p>\n<p>Klitschko, meanwhile, had not fought since <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/on-this-day-tyson-fury-shocks-the-world\/#:~:text=Klitschko%20put%20his%20weight%20behind,his%20right%20eyebrow%20as%20well.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">getting dethroned by Tyson Fury<\/a>, who upset the odds by scoring a unanimous decision victory when they collided in November 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the Ukrainian was still a serviceable operator at world level and, after getting dropped in round five, he stunned the Wembley crowd by flooring Joshua in the following frame.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/19274886\/anthony-joshua-defeats-wladimir-klitschko-11th-round-tko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u2018AJ\u2019 then ultimately scored an 11th-round stoppage<\/a> and, given the manner in which he did so, was able to reach a new level of stardom.<\/p>\n<p>During a conversation with Matchroom\u2019s Eddie Hearn and Frank Smith on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Z_9fwLLYkTo?si=eMzqlI8cZtvgyZqT\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DAZN<\/a>, though, the 36-year-old named wins over Dillian Whyte and Andy Ruiz Jr as his absolute best.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKlitschko \u2013 a lot of pressure. Ruiz 2 \u2013 immense pressure. But what was the best win? Can I pick two?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would probably pick Dillian Whyte \u2013 maddest fight. Good, good scrap. And then [I would pick] Ruiz 2, because people were saying I should retire and that, if I didn\u2019t win, I\u2019d have no chance of getting back in the heavyweight rankings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joshua stopped Whyte in round seven of their all-British grudge match in 2015, before exacting his revenge over Ruiz just under four years later.<\/p>\n<p>After losing their first encounter via a major upset, which resulted in a sixth-round stoppage, \u2018AJ\u2019 kept to a strict gameplan and unanimously outpointed his Mexican-American rival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua has named the two standout wins of his career, remembering the immense pressure attached to both&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-673585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}