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Can Joshua manage heavy expectations? Aug 7th 2013, 21:01, by Nigel Collins For almost a century after Cornwall's Bob Fitzsimmons knocked out Jim Corbett to win the heavyweight championship in 1897, British heavyweights were the butt of jokes, the most famous of which is probably Dorothy Parker's withering barb: "If all the British heavyweights were laid out end to end ... I wouldn't be at all surprised." That sort of humor began to fade when Lennox Lewis stopped Riddick Bowe to win the Olympic super heavyweight championship in 1988.

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