Biography

Anthony Joshua is a British professional boxer. He is a two-time unified heavyweight champion, having held the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, and IBO titles since December 2019 and previously between 2016 and June 2019. At regional level, he held the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles from 2014 to 2016.

Anthony Joshua represented England at the 2011 AIBA World Boxing Championships as an amateur in the super-heavyweight division, winning a silver medal; he also represented Great Britain at the 2012 Olympics, winning gold. In 2014, a year after turning professional, he was named Prospect of the Year by The Ring magazine. In 2017, his victorious fight against Wladimir Klitschko was named Fight of the Year by The Ring and the Boxing Writers Association of America. 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 the first British heavyweight to do so.

Joshua was ranked as the world's best active heavyweight by BoxRec and third by The Ring magazine and Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, as well as the eighth best active boxer, pound for pound, by BoxRec.
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He was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2013 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to Boxing. He is an amateur boxer.

Defeated Wladimir Klitschko with an 11th-round technical knockout on April 29, 2017.

His fight with Wladimir Klitschko a record crowd of 90,000 at Wembley Stadium in London England.

He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to Sport. He is a boxer in London, England.