Anthony Joshua
Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua (* October 15, 1989 in Watford ) is an English boxer in the super heavyweight division. He became in 2011 Vice World Champion and 2012 Olympic champion.
Boxing career
The son of Nigerian parents began at the age of 18 years with the sport of boxing and trained in Finchley ABC, London. It was as early as 2009 English novice champion and won the international " Haringey Tournament" in London. In 2010 he was English Champion, won again the " Haringey Tournament" and beyond, the British Championships in Manchester. He also defeated in country contests the Irish Chris Devanney and Chris Turner. In 2011 he was again English Champion and defeated in a country comparison fight the Swedes Otto Wallin.
He was then sent to the 39th European Championships in Ankara, where he defeated the Germans with Eric Brechlin 23:16 Cathal McMonagle from Ireland with 22:10. However, in the quarter-finals he lost early against the Romanian Mihai Nistor and thus different from medaillenlos. Nevertheless, he took part in the 16th World Championships in Baku, where he sensationally won the silver medal. He hit it in the preliminary rounds Tariq Abdul- Haqq and Juan Isidro Hiracheta each early, sat down in the second round with 16:7 against the Moroccans Mohamed Arjaoui through and defeated in the quarterfinals of the Olympic champion and two-time world champion Roberto Cammarelle 15:13. Through a premature victory against the German Erik Pfeifer he reached the finals, where he only extremely narrowly lost with 21:22 Magomedrasul Majidov from Azerbaijan. By December 2011, he had won 31 of 34 fights and was led by the AIBA at No. 3 in the world rankings.
In 2012 he won the international boxing tournament " Bocskai Memorial Tournament" in Hungary, where he also the European champion Sergei Kuzmin defeated in the semifinals. In addition, he also reached the first place in the international " Algirdas Šocikas Tournament" in Lithuania. In the 30th Summer Olympic Games in London, he won the second round bout with a 17:16 scoring against Cuban Erislandy Savón. In the quarterfinals, he won 15:11 against the Chinese Zhang Zhilei and thus the semi-finals, where he defeated the Kazakhs Ivan Dytschko 13:11 and moved into the finals. There he defeated Roberto Cammarelle 18:18.
His first professional fight, he denied on October 5, 2013 in London against Emanuele Leo (total: 8 wins - 0 Losses ) and won by KO in the first round. Meanwhile, his record stands at 5 fights in professional boxing (5 wins, 5 KOs).