klitschko won the boxing between joshua and klitschko.
who won the boxing between joshua and klitschko?
klitschko
in front of a post-war record crowd of 90,000 in attendance, joshua won by tko in a high-drama war that saw both men giving their all. they fought a close and cautious first four rounds. in the fifth, joshua came out roaring and barraged klitschko to the canvas. an angry klitschko rose up and dominated joshua for the remainder of the round, before landing a clean right hand and scoring his own knockdown in round 6. the next few rounds were again cautious, both men wary of each other, until a reinvigorated joshua attacked klitschko in round 11 with an upper-cut blow to the right side of klitschko's face which would be the beginning of the end for the ukrainian. joshua then put together a few small but powerful combinations which sent his opponent to the canvas. klitschko again rose but joshua knocked him down for a second time in the round by unleashing a devastating combination of 7 punches flooring klitschko with his deadly left hook. moments later joshua tried to end the fight by swinging a few right hooks and managed to back klitschko in to the ropes where he again sent a barrage of punches with no reply. the referee then concluded that klitschko had taken enough punishment and stopped the fight.
wladimir klitschko
though klitschko came into the fight as the underdog, he was able to get off to a great start in the fight. klitschko was the aggressor through the first two rounds and landed many hard shots to the head of lewis, winning both rounds on all three judge's scorecards. in the second round, klitschko was able to stagger lewis with two hard right hands that opened a cut under lewis' left eye. in the third round, lewis came out aggressively and landed a strong right hand within the first 10 seconds that opened up a deep cut above klitschko's left eye. despite his injury, klitschko fought a close round with lewis as the two fighters traded jabs and power punches throughout the round though lewis was able to win the round on the scorecards. klitschko rebounded to take round four in which both fighters appeared to be fatigued. in round five, lewis landed several consecutive hard punches to klitschko's ribs with his right hand while in a clinch with klitschko, with hbo commentators disagreeing on the legality of the punches. by the time round five had ended, the condition of klitschko's eye had grown worse, with the corner camera broadcasting the severe open wound, but he was nevertheless allowed to continue into round six. lewis took advantage of klitschko's impaired vision to land a monstrous uppercut in the sixth round. by now both fighters looked exhausted, often staggering after coming together. between rounds six and seven, it was determined by the ringside doctor that the damage to klitschko's eye had become too severe and the fight was stopped. because klitschko's injury was a result of punches from lewis, lewis was named the winner of the fight by technical knockout. klitschko was ahead 58-56 on the scorecards with two judges giving lewis only rounds three and six and the other rounds five and six. the crowd proceeded to boo lewis, and cheer klitschko, presumably unhappy with the stoppage.
lennox lewis vs. vitali klitschko