01/07/2026
Anthony Joshua has retired from boxing, his retirement today closes the chapter on one of the most important heavyweight careers of the modern era.
Joshua leaves the sport as an Olympic gold medallist, a unified heavyweight champion, and crucially, a two time heavyweight world champion, regaining the titles at the highest level after defeat, something only the very best manage to do.
Alongside his promoter Eddie Hearn, Joshua helped lift not just the heavyweight division, but interest in boxing itself. Stadium fights became the norm again, and major events felt truly major.
The night against Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley Stadium, in front of 90,000 boxing fans, remains one of the defining heavyweight moments of the era.
World titles. Sold out stadiums. Great nights of boxing.
Anthony Joshua was a major force in the heavyweight division, and he will be missed.
