‘He’ll finish you with a sledgehammer’: What it’s really like to get punched by Anthony Joshua

Unbeaten heavyweight Frazer Clarke, a former training partner of ‘AJ’, has faced the furious blows of the ex-world title holder... and lived to tell the tale to Alex Pattle

Anthony Joshua en route to knocking out Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley in 2017 (Getty)

There’s a comparison of hitting something with a sledgehammer, or hitting something with a normal hammer a lot of times – you know, like when you hit a nail,” Frazer Clarke says.

So, which comparison applies to getting punched by Anthony Joshua? Well, both, it turns out.

“[The latter] is what it is with Joshua, then he’ll finish you off with a sledgehammer on the last shot,” Clarke tells The Independent. “Boom!”