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We have all witnessed so many boxing icons in the history of boxing and another is already threading the path to becoming one himself by twice earning the Unified heavyweight champion. He is none other than Anthony Joshua. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anthony Joshua has gradually risen to the top of the boxing world through consistent performances which have earned him a plethora of titles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Through this article, we will explore his background, his success evolution and finally, Anthony Joshua net worth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Anthony, although of a Nigerian-Irish origin, is a British by birth. He was born in 15th October 1989 in Watford, Hertfordshire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, most of AJ developmental years were in Nigeria, undergoing his secondary education in Lagos State. Unfortunately for him, his parents Yeta and Robert Joshua got divorced<\/a> when he was 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anthony Joshua grew up in Nigeria and was a boarding student at Mayflower School in Ikenne. Immediately after his parents’ divorce<\/a>, he went back to United kingdom where he completed his high school education at Kings Langley Secondary School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During his school years he was classified as a good athlete and football player. Femi as his teachers know him as, set a remarkable record of completing a Year Nine 100 m record with a time record of 11.6 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2007, AJ started off as a bricklayer before being convinced by his cousin to venture into boxing. Anthony Joshua was able to join a boxing club known as the Finchley ABC in Barnet located at North London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This boxing club also produced another professional boxer known as Derek Chisora. Two years after joining this club he won Haringey Box Cup two times, one in 2009 and another in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the 2010, Joshua won the senior ABA Championships. It was later revealed to the public that AJ turned down a \u00a350,000 to turn professional. He expressed that the reasons he did so was that he is into boxing for medals not for money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2010, Joshua became a British amateur champion at the GB Championships after knocking out Amin Isa. In 2011 during the European Championships, Anthony Joshua knocked out Eric Berechlin and Cathal McMonagle. However, he was knocked out by Mihai Nistor a Romanian southpaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n AJ also completed in the 2011 World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan. This was Anthony’s long needed opportunity which he took advantage of, as he knocked out an Italian reigning world and Olympic champion Roberto Cammarelle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After defeating Reberto he proceeded to fight Erik Pfeifer of Germany in the semi-finals which he unfortunately lost to a to local boxer Magomedrasul Majidov by a single point. Although he lost to Majidov, he still got a silver medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2012, Joshua took part in the 2012 London<\/a> Olympics and also took part in the 2012 Olympic Games in the super-heavyweight division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the Olympics games Joshua knocked out Erislandy Sav\u00f3n (Cuba) with 17-16, he also did the same to Zhang Zhilei (China) 15:11, Ivan Dychko (Kazakhstan) 13-11 and Roberto Cammarelle (Italy).<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2013, Anthony Joshua was honoured with the title of being Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) during the 2013 New Year Honours for services to boxing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In July 2013, Anthony Joshua was officially announced as a professional boxer. His first pro fight was on the 5th of Oct 2013 at the O2 Arena in London<\/a>. After being announced as a professional boxer, AJ has fought a lot of boxers such as Italian Emanuele, Paul Butlin, Hrvoje Ki\u0161i\u010dek, all using a Technical Knockout(TKO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2015, Anthony competed for the Commonwealth heavyweight champion against the undefeated Scottish boxer Gary Cornish. He defeated Cornish and emerged as the winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2015, Anthony also competed for the British heavyweight champion against a former competitor Dillian Whyte. Anthony was able to knock him and repair the scar of defeat he got during his early career<\/a> years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The fight between Anthony and Whyte had a lot of veiws and part from that got him about \u00a33 million and extra five-year deal with Matchroom .<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2016, Anthony Joshua competed for the IBF heavyweight champion against IBF heavyweight champion Charles Martin. He defeated Martin who was just won the title lost it to AJ on his first defence. AJ also had a fight between himself and Wladimir Klitschko for Unified heavyweight championship. After the long waited match, Anthony defeated Wladimir Klitschko and became a Unified heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After Anthony’s fight with Wladimir Klitschko, Anthony has fought with other worthy boxers such as Carlos Takam, Joseph Parker, Alexander Povetkin and Andy Ruiz Jr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anthony is currently single but was involved with a dance tutor Nicole Osbourne. In 2015, he fathered a son named Joseph Joshua a.k.a “JJ”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anthony Joshua net worth is estimated around $80 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We have all witnessed so many boxing icons in the history of boxing and another is already threading…\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":106984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[308,149,377,150],"yoast_head":"\nAnthony Joshua Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Anthony Joshua Career<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
In 2017, Anthony defended his IBF heavyweight champion against Eric Molina. Anthony won the fight and was able to keep his title.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAnthony Joshua Relationship<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Anthony Joshua Achievement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Anthony Joshua Net Worth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n