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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Alex Pattle

What next for Anthony Joshua? When will ‘AJ’ return and who could he fight?

A year has passed since Anthony Joshua last fought, with this absence from the ring officially the longest of the Briton’s professional career.

Not since 2020, a year afflicted by the most-intense phase of the Covid pandemic, has Joshua gone 12 months or more without fighting. And that year, he was out of the ring for 12 months and five days, whereas he is now 13 months removed from his last bout and is at least two months from competing.

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