Jeremy White
It was supposed to be a coming-out party of sorts. A brand-building exercise. The dawn of the next great era in heavyweight boxing.
Anthony Joshua, a chiseled, towering, undefeated British world heavyweight champion with a wide grin and an easy disposition, came to Madison Square Garden on Saturday night to make his United States debut. He had talked before the fight about not just winning, but winning in style, and about the potential for a megafight down the road against Deontay Wilder, an undefeated world champion from the United States.
Heavyweight boxing would be back for the masses.