Yes, everyone knows he is one of the best boxers in the heavyweight division. However, only a few consider Anthony Joshua’s Biography, which is quite interesting. Now, without further ado, let’s begin.

Anthony Joshua’s Childhood Story – Early Life and Family Background:

For Biography starters, Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua was born on the 15th day of October 1989 in the town of Watford in Hertfordshire, England.

Joshua is one among four children born of the union between his father, Robert Joshua, and his mother, Yeta Odusanya.

The famed heavyweight boxer is a British national who possesses Nigerian family roots. Added to Joshua’s family origins are his Irish roots, which establish him as an individual of mixed ethnicity.

Do you know that Young Joshua was very young when his parents got divorced?

Notwithstanding, Joshua had a happy early life growing up at Meriden Estate in Watford, where his mom – Yeta, raised him alongside his brother Jacob as well as sisters Loretta and Janet.

Thanks to Yeta’s superb motherly care, Joshua and his three siblings lacked nothing as they grew up in a middle-class family background setting that promoted fun-filled activities like singing, dancing and sports.

Anthony Joshua Education:

By the time Joshua was aged 11, he had already become a naughty kid. Thus, when Joshua’s family moved to Nigeria in the year 2000, his mother had good reasons to enroll him in a boarding academic institution called Mayflower School at Ikenne in Ogun State, Nigeria.

11-year-old Anthony Joshua studied at Mayflower School in Ikenne, Ogun State, Nigeria.

While at the school, Joshua was – like all other students – subjected to a demanding, regimented lifestyle that saw him wake up at 5:30 a.m. every morning to fetch water.

What more? He had no chance of escaping daily punishments and beatings, which were randomly carried out by senior students of the educational institution.

Fortunately for Joshua, he only spent six months at the boarding school before leaving with his family to Watford.

Joshua continued with his education at Kings Langley Secondary School in Watford, where he was very much dedicated to athletics and broke the high school’s Year Nine 100m record by finishing in 11.6 seconds.

Anthony Joshua Biography – Early Career Life:

Away from school and sporting activities, Joshua made an early career out of bricklaying. While the then semi-lanky youngster was at it, he was involved in street fights, going out to nightclubs, as well as drinking and smoking.

At the peak of his street fights, Joshua was banned from appearing in the Watford area for a year. He was also made to wear an electronic tag for monitoring purposes.

Rather than tread a different path, Joshua resolved to get bigger and stronger in order to command fear and respect whenever he returned to his old stomping ground.

He even bought a bench press and weights to achieve the purpose. Joshua’s newfound commitment to bodybuilding soon amused his cousin Ben Ileyemi, who introduced him to boxing at Finchley Amateur Boxing Club in Barnet.

Anthony Joshua Bio – Road To Fame Story:

It wasn’t long before Joshua’s training at the Finchley Amateur Boxing Club made him realize he had a natural talent for boxing.

Thus, he began his foray into amateur boxing, in which he prospered by winning titles and getting welcomed to the Team GB squad.

However, Joshua was yet to learn his final lesson regarding good comportment until he was once stopped by police, who found 8oz of cannabis in a sports bag inside his Mercedes car.

Although Joshua was charged with a career-threatening possession-with-intent-to-supply, he luckily survived and got a minor punishment of 12 months community order as well as 100 hours of unpaid work.

Anthony Joshua Biography – Rise To Fame Story:

Emerging from the depths of corrections, Joshua made the decision to put things right, an aim he achieved within two years by becoming an Olympic boxing champion and traveling around the world to discuss his future with the biggest names in the boxing business.

Joshua eventually turned pro in 2013 and went on to record a victorious debut against Italy’s Emanuele Leo on the 5th of October that year.

Fast forward to December 2019, Joshua is a former unified world heavyweight champion who has held the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, and IBO titles between 2016 and 2019.

He is – at the time of writing this biography – set to have a rematch with Andy Ruiz Jr who did not only hand him his first professional defeat but also stripped him of his four titles in June 2019.

Despite reclaiming and re-losing the belt to Oleksandr Usyk, he still won fans’ hearts. Just like Amir Khan, Anthony is one of Britain’s favorite Boxers. The rest, as we say of the British Boxer’s Biography, is now history.

Anthony Joshua’s Girlfriend, Wife, Child?

Moving on to Anthony Joshua’s love life, it is believed that the quality time he invested in dominating the heavyweight scene has prevented him from having a robust dating history.

In fact, the boxer with numerous rumored relationships is known to have had something serious with one girlfriend from whom he has long separated.

The lady who made it to Joshua’s confirmed dating list is no other person but Nicole Osborne. She triples as Joshua’s childhood friend and high school sweetheart.

It was, therefore, not surprising that the duo had a son together named Joseph Bayley Temiloluwa Prince Joshua (born April 2016).

Speaking of Nicole’s whereabouts after the split, the former gym teacher and pole dancer reportedly lives in a £500,000 house situated at Finchley in northwest London.

The house was paid for by Anthony Joshua, who still holds the mother of his son in high esteem.