A friend asked me recently what I thought Anthony Joshua should do next. There have been reports that Joshua will fight again this summer and other reports that he has decided to wait until December.
Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder have been mentioned as possible opponents. But there may be a rematch against Dillian Whyte or a fight against a second-tier opponent.
I thought about those and other options. And the answer hit me with crystal clarity: Joshua should retire. Joshua won a gold medal in the super-heavyweight division at the 2012 London Olympics and captured the IBF world heavyweight title four years later by knocking out the lightly regarded Charles Martin.
In 2017, in his 19th professional fight, he defended his throne against former heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko before 90,000 frenzied fans at Wembley Stadium.