The weight on Anthony Joshua’s shoulders has never come purely from the hefty world heavyweight titles that were once draped upon them. That subtle ache was always supplemented by the perennial pressure of being Britain’s chosen heavyweight hero.
The feeling should, perhaps, have abated slightly by now – the lifting of those belts from Joshua’s shoulders and onto Oleksandr Usyk’s relieving both the literal and metaphorical weights burdening the Briton.
