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The hits just keep on coming for Anthony Joshua after that devastating loss to Daniel Dubois last month, this time courtesy of boxing bible Ring magazine.
AJ (now 28-4) went into the Wembley showdown as a hot favourite to become a three-time world heavyweight champion, but Dubois tore up the script in incredible fashion to roar to a fifth-round knockout victory.
Joshua was on the floor four times in total, the first at the end of Round 1 thanks to a massive Dubois right hand. In truth he never really recovered from that as he was handed the most conclusive defeat of his professional career so far.
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The form Joshua had displayed in recent fights made this an even bigger shocker – his demolition jobs on Otto Wallin and Francis Ngannou in particular suggested he was once again the wrecking ball who once ruled the heavyweight division with fear.
But the exciting new partnership with head trainer Ben Davison hit its first major blip as AJ was completely taken apart and humbled in front of a record boxing crowd of 96,000 at Wembley Stadium.
It was an astonishing night, and it brought plenty of post-fight inquests as one might imagine, with many questioning whether AJ is done at the very highest level.
After the analysis, of course, comes those eagerly-awaited heavyweight rankings updates – did AJ fall? And just how far?
The most eagerly-awaited of all is boxing bible Ring magazine, which had Joshua at number 2 before the Dubois fight – behind only champion Oleksandr Usyk and another British superstar in Tyson Fury. But now things look very very different.
