Joyce misplaced the WBO interim title and valued standing as one of many obligatory challengers to unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk that he had received with an exhilarating late stoppage of Joseph Parker in his first combat in opposition to Zhang 11 months in the past, when ambitions of an enormous payday have been extinguished by the heavy-hitting ‘Big Bang’, who battered his opponent and induced main swelling across the eye that led to the bout being waved off in the sixth round.