JOYCE: I WILL BE, ER, BACK
Daily Mirror UK|September 25, 2023
The Juggernaut gets a prang from Zhang but insists he can still rebuild his career
LIAM PRENDERVILLE
JOYCE: I WILL BE, ER, BACK

JOE JOYCE says there is no chance he will retire after his rematch with Zhilei Zhang ended in another brutal knockout defeat.

Joyce, 38, came in at the heaviest weight of his career in an attempt to exact revenge on China heavyweight Zhang, having been stopped for the first time in his career in April.

But there was a sense of inevitability from the opening bell before the Brit was dropped as early as the third round by a crushing right hook (above) from Zhang.

His career would now appear to be on the line just months after he was put in the same bracket as Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk.

This story is from the September 25, 2023 edition of Daily Mirror UK.

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