By Jeff Powell For Mailonline
Published: 04:14 BST, 2 June 2019 | Updated: 04:15 BST, 2 June 2019
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True to his promise, Eddie Hearn came as close to selling out Madison Square Garden as made no difference.
That was made possible by a trans-Atlantic pilgrimage by thousands of Joshua fans.
The promoter had been hoping for an invading force of 8,000 and it looked and sounded like more. We Brits have an infinite capacity for turning out in support of our sportsmen and women. As was overwhelming demonstrated in Madrid earlier this Saturday and will be again this summer for cricket and football world cups.
There was no way of knowing how many New Yorkers were in this famous room but that sharp accent was scarcely audible so it couldn’t have been that many.
We did have a rousing rendition of New York, New York but it was Sweet Caroline which raised the roof.
If Joshua was going to make the statement asked of him to breach the US market, the message would have to be beamed out to the Americans
