Publisher's Synopsis
ANTHONY OLUWAFEMI OLASENI JOSHUA, OBE (Born 15 October 1989) is an English Professional fighter. He is a double cross unified world heavyweight champion (two times unified heavyweight world champion), having held the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, and IBO titles since December 2019, and already among 2016 and June 2019. At provincial level, he held the English and commonwealth heavyweight titles from 2015 to 2016.
As a novice, Joshua represented Britain at the 2011 Big showdowns in the super-heavyweight division, winning a silver decoration. He likewise represented Great Britain at the 2012 Olympics, winning gold. In 2014, a year in the wake of turning proficient, he was named Prospect of the Year by The Ring magazine. In 2017, his triumphant battle against Wladimir Klitschko was named Battle of the Year by The Ring and the Boxing Journalists Relationship of America. Joshua is the second English fighter, after James DeGale, to win both a gold decoration at the Olympics and a world title by a significant Professional endorsing body, just as the primary English heavyweight to do as such.
As of April 2021, Joshua is positioned as the world's second best dynamic heavyweight by The Ring and the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board; and third by BoxRec just as the fourth best dynamic fighter, pound for pound, by BoxRec.He has been positioned by BoxRec as among the world's best 10 heavyweights since 2014, and was positioned at No. 1 at the finish of 2016 and 2017. Joshua's knockout rate remains at 93% (80% in world heavyweight title fights).
