Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua OBE (born 15 October 1989) is a British professional boxer. Joshua competed as an amateur for England in the super-heavyweight event at the 2011 World Championships, winning a silver medal. He also won gold for Great Britain in the 2012 Olympics.
He was named Prospect of the Year by The Ring magazine in 2014, a year after turning professional. His victory over Wladimir Klitschko in 2017 was voted 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 an Olympic gold medal and a major professional sanctioning body world title, and the first British heavyweight to do so.
Is Anthony Joshua mixed race?
He is of mixed race and very proud of it.
Joshua is currently listed as the world’s third-best active heavyweight by BoxRec, the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, and The Ring, and fourth by ESPN, as well as the seventh-best active boxer pound for pound by BoxRec.
He has been listed among the world’s top 10 heavyweights by BoxRec since 2014, and he was ranked first at the end of 2016 and 2017. In world heavyweight title fights, Joshua’s knockout-to-win rate is 91.67%, with an overall knockout percentage of 63.64%.
What ethnicity is Anthony Joshua?
His mother is Nigerian, while his father is Nigerian and Irish.
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