According to The Ring, the duel claims to be the title of "Fight of the Year" and the best battle of heavyweight in the last 20 years.

In addition to the London battle of two heavyweights, in the top-five bouts of 2017 entered fights Golovkin - Alvarez, Visaksil Vangek - Roman Gonzalez, Miguel Berchelt - Francisco Vargas, Miguel Roman - Orlando Salido.

Few experts gave veteran Klitschko a chance to defeat Joshua, who went to the battle with 18 knockouts in 18 battles.

Joshua unexpectedly sent Klitschko in a knockdown in the fifth round, but the Ukrainian managed to rise, breaking his opponent's head by sending him to the floor, in the next three minutes.

It was an exciting fight, before he stopped in the 11th round.

Note that in the top 5 fighters who claim to be the "boxer of the year" according to the magazine's version, the Ukrainian also entered Vasily Lomachenko.

As previously reported, "URA-Inform", Vasyl Lomachenko now not only the champion of the WBO world featherweight champion in the second (10-1, 8 KOs), and now the main winner of BoxingScene version for 2017.