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LONDON. – British heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua brings guaranteed excitement to boxing and will supply another awe-inspiring knockout against Carlos Takam on Saturday. Joshua is the face of boxing right now, for one simple reason – he always delivers. People and fighters in the game don’t like it when they see one person in such a position, but you don’t get anything in this business. You have to work very, very hard to get to that level and he has done just that.

He might well say and do all the right things, he might be a supreme athlete and aesthetically perfect but no matter how good all that is, you have to deliver and Joshua has delivered the knock-out every time. That is all people want to see from a heavyweight and that is what he does. No matter if it’s Carlos Takam, Kubrat Pulev or anyone else, he will do that on Saturday night again. That is what he did against Wladimir Klitschko, that is why he is the face of boxing. It was his signature fight, that defining moment in his career — and he won it.

There are plenty of fighters who can talk all they like, look as good as they do, even box as well as anyone out there, but it is that one moment, that one fight, that will decide where you are. David Haye and Joshua are aesthetically fantastic. Both are very, very good boxers who can bang, and David has even taken on the new approach of trying to say the nicest things he can.

Yet Joshua is the darling of British boxing and probably British sport – because he always delivers and he delivered on the biggest night of his boxing life. That is the difference. We are not, for once, just having a dig at Haye. He was a unified cruiserweight world champion and heavyweight world champion. He had the chance, ironically against Wladimir Klitschko as well, to define his status, but didn’t. – Sky Sports.