Anthony Joshua seemed to sense he needed to do something dramatic when the ninth round of his bout for the unified heavyweight titles with Oleksandr Usyk began in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Saturday.
And Joshua came out and was blistering Usyk, ripping him with body shots that were savage with their intent. He blasted Usyk with straight right hands and a left hook that had dropped so many opponents before him.
When the 10th round began, Usyk fired off a four-punch combination to start it and was every bit as dominant in the 10th as Joshua had been been in the ninth.