'I Thought Anthony Joshua Was Just Some Pumped Up Guy - Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson has likened Anthony Joshua's epic victory over Wladimir Klitschko to the way his sensational knockouts once regalvanised the hard old game and the heavyweight division.

Iron Mike expects Britain's AJ to reign as the heir to his violent kingdom for a decade.

The scale of Joshua's sudden importance to boxing and its marquee division was spelled out thus by Tyson: 'When a new heavyweight champion wins the world title as explosively as that it changes the whole game.