Boxing · 2017 · London, England
Wembley Goes Wild
In front of 90,000 at Wembley, the largest British boxing crowd since before the Second World War, Anthony Joshua gets up off the floor to stop Wladimir Klitschko.
Joshua def. Klitschko, TKO round 11
Result
90,000
Attendance
Joshua 1, Klitschko 3
Knockdowns
Anthony Joshua's unbeaten record met Wladimir Klitschko's championship pedigree at Wembley Stadium on 29 April 2017, in front of 90,000 spectators, the largest crowd for a boxing match in the United Kingdom since Tommy Farr fought Joe Louis in 1937. Klitschko, a long-reigning former champion attempting a comeback, was there to find out what Joshua had against elite opposition.
Joshua put Klitschko down in the fifth round. Klitschko hurt him badly in return and dropped him in the sixth, and for a minute the younger man's unbeaten run looked finished. Joshua recovered, and in the eleventh produced a sustained assault that put Klitschko down twice more before the referee stopped the contest.
It was the signature win of Joshua's career and made him the biggest global draw in the sport at the time. The crowd became part of the story too, since heavyweight boxing had not filled a British stadium on that scale in living memory.
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