Anthony Joshua mercilessly ridiculed with brutal comparisons to Olympic breakdancer Raygun

Dubois enactment successful a stunning show to nonstop Joshua crashing to the canvas and fans person present taken to societal media to mock AJ for the mode of his daze defeat

Anthony Joshua has been compared to infamous Olympic interruption dancer 'Raygun' pursuing his decision by Daniel Dubois.

Dubois stunned the boxing world astatine Wembley Stadium connected Saturday nighttime arsenic helium produced a spectacular show to nonstop AJ crashing to the canvas. While Joshua will nary uncertainty beryllium nursing a sore caput pursuing the humbling by DDD, helium volition present besides person to woody with relentless mocking by boxing fans.

Viewers of the combat person shown nary mercy with a bid of brutal posts that person contrasted his tribulations successful the ringing to that of the much-ridiculed Australian dancer. 'Raygun', aka 36-year-old Rachael Gunn, mislaid each 3 of her Olympic battles successful Paris pursuing a bid of bizarre dances that caused her to beryllium jeered astir the world.

Former two-time champion Joshua was dropped successful the first, 3rd and 4th rounds but bushed the number connected some occasions, nevertheless helium was past finished disconnected successful the fifth. His struggles person since been greeted with thing but laughter aft helium appeared to instrumentality connected immoderate of the akin positions Raygun was throwing successful her doomed Olympic showing arsenic helium attempted to get backmost up.

Just implicit 98,000 fans wrong Wembley saw Joshua floored successful what was a humiliating nighttime for the 34-year-old. As overmuch arsenic AJ did his champion to combat the last count, helium failed to bash truthful forcing the referee to telephone it for Dubois and consequently springiness the greenish airy for a litany of societal media savaging for the erstwhile Olympian.

A bid of posts connected X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, followed with 1 instrumentality observing: 'AJ was doing his champion Raygun content successful the country astatine the extremity there". More of the aforesaid continued with different stating 'AJ scored much breakdancing points than raygun'.

After Joshua failed to instrumentality to his feet pursuing Dubois' combat winning jab, different X idiosyncratic mocked his extravagant attempts to basal up saying: 'AJ channelling his interior Raygun was not thing I ever expected to see. He’d person won a medal successful the Olympic breaking with this brainsick move'.

Another savvy poster adjacent noted that Joshua's autumn was akin to Tottenham defender Micky van de Ven's past play erstwhile the centre backmost was turned by Newcastle's Alexander Isak and sent to the floor.

The combat ne'er truly got going for Joshua. He was dropped by Dubois with seconds of the archetypal circular remaining which acceptable the code for the adjacent 15 minutes.

Joshua managed to retrieve acknowledgment successful portion to the doorbell sounding but was soon facing aggravated unit astatine the commencement of the 2nd circular arsenic helium laboured and looked retired of sorts. Dubois turned the screw successful the 3rd circular and AJ was dropped again astatine the end, falling to the canvas aft the bell.

He survived that number but was down again astatine the commencement of the 4th round. Dubois was past relentless arsenic helium stalked his compatriot astir the ringing and caught Joshua to nonstop him level connected his face.

The memes past began to constitute themselves arsenic helium struggled to find his footing and was incapable to basal up arsenic the referee ended proceedings.

"Are you not entertained?" Dubois asked a lively assemblage aft his victory. Little did helium cognize their amusement was conscionable beginning, having opened societal media apps to spot hundreds of posts lampooning the mode of Joshua's daze loss.

After the win, the 27-year-old could not fell his elation. He besides claimed helium isn't going to halt successful his quest for much glory, saying: "I've conscionable been connected a rollercoaster ride. This is my time, this is my redemption communicative and I'm not going to halt until I scope my afloat potential."

Despite it being a nighttime to hide for Joshua, and 1 which whitethorn person beardown repercussions for his full career, helium was philosophical and reflective pursuing the defeat.

"Credit to him and his team," Joshua said. "We rolled the dice of success, but we came up short. You cognize I'm acceptable to footwear disconnected successful the ring, but I'm going to support my cool, support precise nonrecreational and springiness respect to my opponent.

"I'm ever saying to myself I'm a combatant for life... We support rolling the dice. I had a crisp opponent, a accelerated hostile and a batch of mistakes from my end, but that's the game."

Whether helium inactive feels that mode aft seeing the Raygun comparisons is hard to say. However, the imaginable of Joshua facing different immense combat successful his already inconsistent vocation present looks slim.