Anthony Joshua stops Wladimir Klitschko in the 11th round at Wembley

By Luke Reddy - bbc.com

          Wladimir Klitschko suffered the fifth defeat of his career

Anthony Joshua produced the performance of his career to add the WBA world heavyweight title to his IBF crown with an enthralling knockout win over Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley Stadium.

A post-war record 90,000 fans at the national stadium were treated to a see-saw contest, Joshua dropping the former unified world champion in the fifth round, before being put down - for the first time in his 19-fight career - in the sixth.

Both men looked in danger of being stopped over two rounds which will live long in the memory, before Joshua delivered the clinical blows in the 11th.

The Briton landed a brutal uppercut which gave him the platform to send Klitschko down with an immediate flurry.

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Anthony Joshua stops Wladimir Klitschko by way of TKO

By Lance Pugmire - latimes.com

Untested was the criticism that clung so closely to Anthony Joshua before Saturday night’s heavyweight title bout that lured a record post-World War II fight crowd of his countrymen to Wembley Stadium.

In a rousing display of his toughness and fighting skill, Joshua picked himself off the canvas and hammered Wladimir Klitschko relentlessly in the 11th round, winning by technical knockout in a showing that vanquished the tag of inexperience.

“I’m not perfect, but I’m trained,” Joshua told the 90,000 roaring for the man who took a major step toward becoming the sport’s next big thing. “Sometimes you can be a phenomenal boxer. But boxing’s about character, and sometimes you go into the trenches.

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Anthony Joshua: Briton stops Wladimir Klitschko to win epic world heavweight fight

By Ben Dirs, for CNN

Wembley Stadium (CNN) Anthony Joshua cemented his status as the world's premier heavyweight with an 11th-round stoppage of Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley Stadium Saturday.
In what was billed as a clash of generations and perhaps the biggest heavyweight bout since Lennox Lewis beat Mike Tyson in 2002, the 27-year-old Joshua recovered from a knockdown in the sixth round to win one of the most thrilling fights in recent heavyweight history.

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Joshua vs Klitschko: Anthony Joshua stops Wladimir Klitschko after an epic fight at Wembley

By Richard Damerell - skysports.com

Anthony Joshua climbed off the canvas to produce a dramatic late stoppage victory over Wladimir Klitschko in an epic heavyweight world title fight at Wembley.

The 27-year-old appeared to be on the brink of his first professional defeat when he was floored in the sixth round, but staged a severe onslaught to halt Klitschko in the 11th round.

Joshua successfully defended his IBF title, while also claiming the WBA 'super' belt, but there could be calls for a rematch after a classic heavyweight unification clash in front of a record 90,000 crowd at the national stadium.

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Anthony Joshua stops Wladimir Klitschko to become unified champion in fight for the ages

By Steven Muehlhausen - sportingnews.com

Anthony Joshua vs. Wladimir Klitschko was said by many to be the biggest fight in the heavyweight division since Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson in 2002.

The fight lived up to its billing.

In one of the greatest fights in heavyweight history, Joshua defeated Klitschko by 11th round TKO to retain the IBF heavyweight championship and gain the IBO and WBA Heavyweight championships in front of a raucous crowd of 90,000 people who were into the fight before it even began at Wembley Stadium in London.

Sporting News scored the bout 95-94 Klitschko heading into the 11th round.

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Anthony Joshua stops Wladimir Klitschko with stunning eleventh round stoppage in world heavyweight title fight

Joshua produced a remarkable show of late force to see off the challenge of the wily former champion

Mark Critchley - independent.co.uk

Believe the hype. Anthony Joshua is still the heavyweight champion of the world but more significantly, for the first time, he is unquestionably worthy of that most storied title.

At the start of the eleventh round of this, the biggest test of his short professional career to date, it looked likely that the golden boy of British boxing was about to lose his gilded edges. There was certainly nothing special about his laboured footwork, his rigid stance or the dull, confused look on his face.

Yet in boxing, all of that matters little if you keep a stock of brutal, devastating power in reserve. A 41-year-old Wladimir Klitschko, once this division’s supremo, had been masterful in those closing rounds, comfortably edging towards regaining his titles. Then the penultimate starting bell went. Boom.

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Joshua knocks out Klitschko in heavyweight title fight – as it happened

Bryan Armen Graham - theguardian.com

•    Joshua stops Klitschko to retain IBF heavyweight title, add WBA belt
•    Victory before 90,000 at Wembley lifts Briton to 19-0 with 19 knockouts
  

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