Joshua, the new billionaire boxer
Anthony Joshua, an ex-bricklayer, who was once on drug charges, is now the first billionaire heavyweight boxing star. He still plans to keep living with his mum at home.
Anthony Joshua knocked out Ukranian Wladimir Klitschko by producing the best performance of his career to add the WBA world heavy weight title to his crown He dropped the former Unified world champion in the fifth round, before being put down for the first time in his 19-fight career – in the sixth. Both men looked in danger of being stopped over two rounds, but Joshua delivered the clinical blows in the 11th.
His world of fortune has changed as the one-time Watford-born street fighter and boxer was arrested pm drug-related charges in 2011, that threatened his promising boxing career.
Joshua took the Olympic Gold medal with Team GB at the 2012 London Olympics. This was a wake-up call for the 27-year-old Joshua born to Nigerian parents, as he took to boxing sport nine years ago, turned professional in 2013 and his victory over Wladimir Klitschko in front of 90, 000 fans at Wembley continued his undefeated run,