10 Things You Must Know About Anthony Joshua, The Nigerian Man That Recently Won The Heavyweight Title Fight

Proudly Yoruba is still in the eve of celebration over the recent win of one of our sons, at the recently concluded heavyweight title fight. We bring you 10 things you must know about him.

His full names are Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua.

He was born in Watford, England on the 15th of October 1989, making him a 27-year-old young man as at the time of winning the fight.His father is a British and Irish descendant while his mother is a Nigerian from Shagamu, Remo division in Ogun State, His mother’s name is Yeta Odunsanya.He grew up for some years in Nigeria before he relocated to the UK, where he completed his high school.In March 2011, he was pulled over by police for speeding in North London, he was latter caught with Herbal cannabis hidden in his sport bag, charged with class B drug offence that carries 14-years sentence but was suspended from GB boxing and sentenced to a 12 month community order and100 hrs of unpaid work.He is a relative of Ben ileyemi who is also an unbeaten professional who they both made debut in 2013Joshua had an amateur record of 40-3, which means he won 40 games and lost just 3, what an incredible record.Joshua began Boxing in 2007 at attender age of 17 and have won 19 Knock out of a total of 19 in his career.On 10 December 2016, Joshua knocked out Molina in third round and Joshua vs. Klitschko fight was officially announced.On 29 April 2017, Joshua defeats Wladmir Klitschko in epic Wembley battle and was crowned at the 11^thround as the best heavyweight in the world.

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