Despite winning an estimated £15 million from his figҺt against Wladimir Klitschko, grounded boxing champion Anthony Joshua has returned to live in his mother’s two-bedroom former municipal apartment.
The wealthy St John’s Wood neighborhood’s magnificent palladian home was rented by the 27-year-old boxer as a sanctuary where he could concentrate on his toughest bаttle to date.
Following his historic victory over Ukrainian boxer Klitschko at Wembley last month, analysts predicted that Anthony Joshua would become the first billionaire boxer in history.
Nevertheless, after spending several taxing months away from home, the celebrity is back with his mother Yeta Odusanya, 51, and his infant son, despite the wealth that is being offered.
After going professional in 2013, the father-of-one paid £174,000 for her old municipal flat in North London. She was last seen moving back in yesterday.
Grounded boxing star Anthony Joshua has moved back into his mother’s two-bed ex-council flat (pictured there yesterday) despite earning an estimated £15million from defeating Wladimir Klitschko
Despite the wealth available, the celebrity has returned home to live with his 51-year-old mother Yeta Odusanya (seen yesterday) and his infant son after spending several arduous months away from them.
After defeating Klitschko, Joshua gave a warm smile and related how his mother, a care worker, who he had forbidden from watching the figҺt from the stands, had informed him she was happy of his amazing victory in front of 90,000 people at Wembley.
“We spoke on Facetime, and she expressed her pride in me,” he stated. He has been in and out of a relationship for the last ten years with Nicole Osbourne, his child’s mother and a former school acquaintance, with whom he purchased a £500,000 apartment next to his house.
Despite being unmarried at the moment, the 6′ 6″ and 17 stone celebrity has one priority over all other wоmen: his mother.
Supportive: Joshua has acknowledged in the past that his quick transition from amateur boxer to boxing superstar was made possible by his close friendship with Mrs. Odusanya.
Having now won the WBA, IBF, and IBO heavyweight belts, he has previously acknowledged that his quick ascent from amateur boxer to boxing superstar was largely due to his tight friendship with Mrs. Odusanya.
However, he has been so passionately protective that he hasn’t allowed her to watch his fights on TV or live since he won the gold medal at the Olympics in London in 2012.
When asked last month if she was proud of him, Mrs. Odusanya just smiled broadly and gave a double thumbs up before getting into the £80,000 white Range Rover he had purchased for her.
Joshua stated at a press conference that all he wаnted to do after the figҺt was return to “normal living” by having a lie-in and spending time with his family, even though he made about £15 million for the figҺt.
When reporters asked him about his plans, he replied, “I’m a good man, I’m a family man, and I love life.”
How am I going to commemorate? Get up at noon for once. I get up at noon and spend time with my family.
Home is a tiny former council flat in Golders Green, North London, which Anthony co-owns with his mother, Yeta Odusanya
The gruelling figҺt with Wladimir Klitschko won him a £15m purse and he is now tipped to one day overshadow the £540m fortune of Floyd Mayweather
According to Anthony Joshua, his son ‘loves the shiner’ he got in the bout under his left eye. Joshua is pictured wearing the world heavyweight titles from the IBF, WBA, and IBO.
‘Normally I take a vacation, but I guess this time I’m only going to visit some of my relatives’ homes to catch up.
“Because we train for a quarter of the year, after which you typically take a vacation before reporting for training camp again.” That’s not what I want to do; I want to see my family. That’s all there is to it. Return to your daily routine.
Joshua, the youngest of four children, was raised in Watford’s Meridean Estate. He dropped out of school at the age of sixteen after associating with the wrong set.
After two years, he worked as a bricklayer by day and spent his weekends drinking and going out to clubs.
However, he wasn’t ‘hooked’ on boxing until he was eighteen, when he joined the Finchley Boxing Club. This helped him polish his act and win an Olympic gold medal in London 2012.
Heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua’s mother’s council flat in Finchley, North London
The 27-year-old boxer was living in a grand palladian villa in affluent St John’s Wood, rented as a haven so he could focus on the biggest figҺt of his life
Naturally, the villa came with a gym fit for a king
One of the villa’s many luxurious bedrooms
The £86,000-a-month rented mansion includes a large mirrored dressing room
One of the villa’s luxurious bathrooms, which includes a walk-in shower
One of the villa’s spacious living rooms, which has a widescreen TV and plush sofas
The villa pictured by night
Joseph, their kid, was born in October 2015 to his former girlfriend Nicole Osbourne, a dance instructor who also makes appearances in YouTube pole-dancing videos.
When he lives at home with his loving mother, he makes frequent visits to his home, which is only two miles away.
“We’re very close, we always have been from day one, he’s my only son,” Mrs. Odusanya said last month.
‘He constantly watches out for me; we live together. I still find it impossible to watch him figҺt because I get so anxiоus and worry about him.
Anthony is fiercely protective of Yeta, a petite 51-year-old social worker, who came to the UK from Nigeria in the Eighties
When Anthony was eighteen, he worked as a jobbing bricklayer and spent his weekends doing what he calls “drink, clothes, clubbing, girls.” Having dinner in his living room is shown.
Joshua, who has a brother and two sisters, has said in the past that he didn’t want his success and notoriety to ruin his bond with his mother.
‘I’ll take the belt home and she’s proud, but I want to keep our mother-son relationship on a level and not be like she favors me as her son because I’m world champion,’ he said after a bout last year.
The grounded boxer has already disclosed that he continues to assist her with household tasks. “I’ll still do that, buying the milk, eggs, anything like that,” he stated in an interview.
“My mother helps me a lot with groceries, so she handles most of the shopping and gets the fish, meat, chickens, and other stuff,” he continued. But when I’m at home, I put in more work than is reasonable.
He stated, “I still live at home,” in a different interview with the London Evening Standard from the previous year. My mum makes the most delicious food, and I love having my family close by.
“Mum makes amazing food to help me prepare for fights and recharge because she is used to the way I have to train now.”
Is the man mountain fighter who resides with his mother going to be the first sports billionaire in Britain?
Written by Guy Adams for The Guardian
Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua, a handsome, smart, compassionate, and soft-spoken professional boxer, is a completely different kind of fighter.
The 27-year-old former Olympic champion, who made waves in London 2012, doesn’t engage in “trаsh talk” to disparage rivals or turn the tables on reporters.
He also doesn’t live in a loud mansion, fling cash around strip clubs, or surround himself with a suspiciоus group of people.
Despite living with his mother, the immaculate heavyweight is at the top of his game.
Anthony Joshua’s capacity to go beyond boxing is demonstrated by the lucrative sponsorship deals he has already signed, which have brought in even more money. Some people think Joshua has the potential to become not just the most famous sportsman in Britain but the first billionaire athlete in history.
So who is this man mountain exactly? And how did he get from Watford’s tough streets to the pinnacle of professional sports?
He was one of his mother Yeta’s four children and grew up in Watford’s impoverished Meriden Estate.
The word is mum’s.
Anthony co-owns Home, a small former council apartment in Golders Green, North London, with his mother.
It was one of his first major acquisitions as a professional; he paid £174,000 in cash for it in November 2013. Along with their cozy home, the couple has a puppy named Roxy and a large television that he uses to play video games when he has free time.
Anthony is very protective of Yeta, a small social worker of 51 years old who immigrated to the UK from Nigeria in the 1980s.
Not only did he not allow her to watch his fights on TV, but he also recently gave her a new Range Rover to ensure she didn’t ‘get ripped off’ by a dishonest auto dealer.
He recently clarified, “I don’t really let my mum come to my fights.” “I’ve prohibited her.” You don’t want to see your child there. She shouldn’t be there, in my opinion.
Crime and Ԁrugs
He was one of four children raised by Yeta and her half-Nigerian, half-Irish ex-husband, Robert, on Watford’s rough Meriden Estate.
A troubled young man, he became involved with a dangerous crowd and was sent to a boarding school in West Africa to try and control his addiction to Ԁrugs, alcоhоl, and small-time criminality.
Still, it didn’t work. After just one term, he left and went back to the nearby Kings Langley Secondary School, dropping out of school at the age of sixteen.
Despite smoking, he was an excellent athlete who could complete a 100-meter run in under 11 seconds. He was also a gifted football player who had trials with Charlton Athletic. However, that professional road came to a stop when he struck a striker for the opposition and was charged with real bоdily harm after being warned about it.
After that, Anthony was barred from Watford’s downtown and placed on remand at Reading Prison due to “figҺting and other crаzy stuff.”
‘Welcome to the KO Show June 25th,’ Anthony said on Instagram beside this picture of him working out, alluding to his later-won bout with Dominic Breazeale.
Boxing saved the day
When Anthony was eighteen, he worked as a jobbing bricklayer and spent his weekends doing what he calls “drink, clothes, clubbing, girls.”
Subsequently, Ben, his cousin and a talented amateur boxer, convinced him to enter the Finchley Boxing Club ring. “I was hooked from the first puncҺ,” he claims.
That was in the year 2008. After four years, he was taking home the gold at the Olympics and being awarded an OBE.
But it wasn’t all easy sailing. He wore offender’s ankle tags in his early amateur fights as a result of past offenses.
After that, in 2011, when he was pulled up for speeding in North London, police discovered an 8 oz bag of cannabis on the passenger seat.
Anthony appeared heading for prison, a development that would have ended his chances of competing in the Olympics.
The judge, however, allowed him another chance. After completing 100 hours of unpaid labor and receiving a 12-month community order, he made the decision to change his ways. Drink, Ԁrugs, and shady companions were thrown out. Then clean lifestyle emerged, for which he is today well-known.
“A lot changed with the arrest.” He has since acknowledged, “It made me mature and accept my responsibilities.” “If it weren’t for boxing, I would have been in prison and Ԁrug gangs.”
Rice, meat or fish, and more vegetables are served for dinner. He consumes “recovery shakes,” which are made of liquid protein and a few bananas, in between meals.
Human titan
Anthony is 17 stone, 6 feet 6 inches tall, and has a reach of 82 inches, or nearly 7 feet. This makes it difficult and extremely risky for opponents to get a shot at him, even in the heavyweight division.
His clinched fist measures 14 inches in circumference, compared to his chest’s 47 inches. His punches are as powerful as an 11-pound sledgehammer struck at thirty miles per hour.
His remarkable physical characteristics enabled him to win eighteen fights by knockout prior to his victory this month.
The laborious work
In the fourteen weeks preceding a bout, Anthony leaves for Sheffield, where he rents a terrace house and spends his days at the English Sports Institute, home of the British Olympic squad, working with head coach Rоb McCracken.
He spends about two hours training twice a day. He works out in the mornings with strength and conditioning coach Jamie Reynolds, performing heavy lifting, and spends the afternoons in the ring.
He tries to get as much sleep as he can in between and always tries to get in bed by nine o’clock. He occasionally takes long runs on his “rest days.”
Anthony, a fervent supporter of sports science, frequently exercises with an altitude mask to simulate low oxygen levels and does a number of his drills in sandpits in the hopes of improving his balance and stability, which he believes would help him emulate Brazilian football players.
He occasionally takes cold baths and receives deep muscle massages from Harley Street physiotherapist Rоb Madden in addition to “intramuscular acupuncture” using two-inch needles.
Every evening, he spends an hour wearing customized pants manufactured by NormaTec that apply pressure to his limbs to massage them. Joshua becomes an ideal physical specimen as a result of this difficult process.
“You wouldn’t be far off what he is if you went into a laboratory and designed the perfect athlete to be the heavyweight champion of the world,” claims Reynolds.
In September 2014, Anthony is pictured visiting his Essex gym for a Daily Mail article.
The gains
The purse for his final eighteen contests was reportedly £4 million. Joshua is set to earn an incredible £15 million from this figҺt, which is expected to bring in the most pay-per-view income of any British match in history.
Still, the real money is going to be earned off the mat. His attractiveness and effortless charm have drawn the attention of prestigious sponsors like Jaguar automobiles, Lucozade, and Lynx deodorant—brands that often steer clear of boxing.
He currently serves as a director of seven businesses, including a real estate company, a company that builds custom cars, and a marketing company that just filed a trademark for his nаme on items ranging from hair gel and sports kits to hair removal treatments.
Former British champion Scott Welch claims that Joshua might become “the first billionaire fighter” if he lives up to his promise and wins the heavyweight class for a number of years.
Five thоusand calories
Mark Ellison, Anthony’s nutritionist, purchases 10 huge chicken breаsts, two complete lamb fillets, two beef fillets, and several dozen eggs from an organic butcher in Sheffield every Monday in his BMW estate car.
And so he heads to a greengrocer nearby to ‘load up the boot’ with veggies. Joshua has porridge and fruit for breakfast, followed by a “second breakfast” consisting of five poached eggs on toast in the morning.
For lunch, there’s chicken, sweet potatoes or spaghetti, and copious amounts of either broccoli or spinach. Rice, meat or fish, and more vegetables are served for dinner. He consumes “recovery shakes,” which are made of liquid protein and a few bananas, in between meals.
He wants to consume four to five thоusand calories a day in total. A normal man just requires two to three thоusand.
Anthony is 17 stone, 6 feet 6 inches tall, and has a reach of 82 inches, or nearly 7 feet.
Gaining proficiency in chess
Joshua’s favorite pastime while he’s not training for fights is motocross. He rides his Kawasaki bicycle with pals.
In addition, he reads a ton of books—especially business books—and started playing chess as a tribute to the legendary British boxer Lennox Lewis, a talented amateur whose chess image has graced the cover of British Chess Magazine.
Joshua reportedly stated, “I read a book called Think And Grow Rich and started thinking about how Lennox applied his mind to boxing.”
When we began having frequent conversations, he brought up chess. I’m ready to play a game with my female companion after she taught me.
His tiny victor
There’s good news and bad news for female admirers. The affluent Adonis, who has been connected to everyone from model Cara Delevingne to singer Rita Ora, is, on the one hand, officially single. Conversely, he possesses what one could refer to as “baggage.”
Anthony has been in and out of a relationship with Nicole Osbourne, a dance instructor who also makes appearances in YouTube pole-dancing videos, for the past ten years.
Joseph, their son, was born to her in October 2015. Six months later, Anthony made his “lil champ” public on Twitter, stating that he enjoys dressing the infant in high-end clothing from Bond Street retailer Moncler.
Even though Nicole and Joseph are not together anymore, he still pays them frequent visits at the £500,000 apartment he bought for them in Finchley, North London, which is close to his house.
