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Joe Joyce stopped Carlos Takam last night at Wembley Arena.

Typical Joe Joyce showing in which he simultaneously looked like a bag of shit and a threat to any heavyweight at the same time.

He just trundled forwards, popping out slow but heavy jabs and right hands and getting nailed with counter shots. His defence is awful and he has the finesse of a sumo wrestler pissed on Sake, but his iron chin, size, strength and relentlessness means no one would have an easy night with him.

Takam began to waver from around the fourth onwards and finally in the sixth shipped a left hook that wobbled him. Joyce piled on the pressure and referee Steve Gray jumped in, perhaps slightly early bearing in mind Takam's experience, competitiveness and toughness.

On paper a 6th round TKO over Takam is a good result. In practicality it was a typically enigmatic performance from Joyce.




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