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The experience of pay-per-view boxing leaves the punter with one of three feelings the morning after.
The first, the rarest, is: brilliant entertainment, worth every penny, would definitely buy again. Anthony Joshua’s defeat of Wladimir Klitschko in April 2017 was one such. Joshua looked gone after getting knocked down in the sixth, but got up to batter the preeminent heavyweight of the era with juddering uppercuts on the way to an 11th-round stoppage that confirmed his status as a world-class performer.
The second, largest, category is that familiar sinking feeling that Eddie Hearn, or HBO, or Frank Warren, has had it away. Twenty quid for the privilege of staying up half the night to watch a couple of lumbering also-rans cuddle in the middle of the ring for 40 minutes before some dodgy judge hands the fight to the wrong guy. A powerful sense of having been sold a lemon. Joshua against Joseph Parker, for