Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua Anthony Joshua , MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire ( MBE) was born on 15th of October 1989, He is a
British professional boxer.
Joshua grew up for much of his early years in Nigeria
and returned to the UK halfway through Year Seven to
join Kings Langley Secondary School. Growing up on
the Meriden Estate in Garston, Hertfordshire, Joshua
was called 'Femi' by his friends and former teachers,
due to his middle name 'Oluwafemi'. He excelled at
football and athletics and broke the Year Nine 100m
record with a time of 11.6 seconds.
He is the current International Boxing Federation heavyweight champion, and also holds the British and
Commonwealth heavyweight titles. He won a gold medal in the super
heavyweight division at the 2012 Olympics , and silver
at the 2011 World Championships.
As of March 2016, Joshua is ranked the world's eighth best heavyweight
boxer by The Ring magazine, and currently boasts a
100% knockout ratio.
Joshua is the second British boxer, after James
DeGale , to win both a gold medal at the Olympics and
a world title by a major professional sanctioning body,
as well as being the first British heavyweight to do
so. He is also only the second boxer in history, after
Joe Frazier, to win a professional world heavyweight
title while still reigning as the Olympic champion at
the top weight.
Joshua was born in Watford to a Nigerian mother and
a father of Nigerian and Irish descent. His cousin is
fellow unbeaten professional boxer Ben lleyemi. The
pair made their professional debuts together in 2013.
Amateur career:
A late starter in the sport, Joshua only began boxing
in 2007, aged 18, when his cousin suggested he take it
up. His club, Finchley ABC in Barnet , North London, is
also home to professional heavyweight Dereck
Chisora . Joshua won the 2009 and 2010 Haringey Box
Cup. Joshua won the senior ABA Championships in
2010, in only his 18th bout, and later turned down
£50,000 to turn professional. "Turning down that
£50,000 was easy. I didn't take up the sport for
money, I want to win medals." He also went on to win
the same tournament the following year.
In 2010 his domestic success earned him a place on the
GB Boxing team and later the same year he became
British amateur champion at the GB Amateur Boxing
Championships after defeating Amin Isa. In June 2011
at the 2011 European Amateur Boxing Championships
he beat Eric Berechlin and Cathal McMonagle but was
stopped by aggressive Romanian southpaw Mihai
Nistor after receiving several standing counts.
In October 2011 he was named Amateur Boxer of the Year
by the Boxing Writers Club of Great Britain.
2011 World Amateur Boxing
Championships:
During the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships
in Baku , Azerbaijan , Joshua marked his sudden arrival
on the world scene when he beat Italian reigning
World & Olympic champion Roberto Cammarelle, and
went on to stop Erik Pfeifer of Germany in the semis
before losing by a single point to local boxer,
Magomedrasul Majidov winning a silver medal. En
route to the final, Joshua secured his place at the 2012
Olympic Games in the 91 kg+ division as a relative
new-comer to the elite level of the sport.
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