Dillian Whyte

Former world champion Anthony Joshua needed seven rounds to stop stand-in opponent Robert Helenius in their heavyweight bout on Aug. 12.

Joshua, 33, looked ponderous in the early stages and the British boxer was jeered by his London home crowd. But he finished the fight with a thunderous knockout of Finland's Helenius at the O2 Arena.

Britain's Anthony Joshua said he should have knocked out Jermaine Franklin after the former world heavyweight champion returned to winning ways with a unanimous, if labored, points-decision victory in London on April 1.

Tyson Fury retained his WBC heavyweight crown on April 24, stopping Dillian Whyte in round six of an all-British bout at a delirious Wembley Stadium before repeating his suggestion that he would now retire.

The win for the self-styled "Gypsy King," fighting on U.K. soil for the first time in four years, was witnessed by 94,000 fans in London, a post-war British record crowd.

Just after the IBF announced that it had pushed back a purse bid between Kubrat Pulev and Hughie Fury, "The Cobra" announced that the fight is set for October 27th in his home town of Sofia, Bulgaria. This was Pulev's third attempt at securing an opponent for the heavyweight eliminator, as both Dillian Whyte and Jarrell Miller declined after their respective purse bids.