Anthony Joshua reveals why he is still living at home with his mum | G1K06Z7 | 2024-03-06 16:08:01
Despite being one of many largest names in boxing, Anthony Joshua says he still loves dwelling at house together with his mum.
The 2-time heavyweight champion returns to the ring on Friday night to take on Francis Ngannou – the former UFC heavyweight champion who gave Tyson Fury a huge scare on his professional boxing debut last October.
Joshua shall be preventing for the fourth time in beneath a yr, a draining schedule that has taken him out to Texas where he worked with head coach Derrick James final yr and to Saudi Arabia where he demolished Otto Wallin in his final fight of 2023.
The Watford fighter is again in Saudi this week ahead of his showdown with Ngannou however revealed each time his schedule permits him, his first stop is again house.
Appearing on Good Morning Britain, Joshua stated: 'I still reside with my mum. I'm 34!
'I realised I practice away from house lots, so if I'm away from house perhaps 10 months of the yr and once I get back I've received to do business work, I realised that if I used to be to maneuver out I might never truly see my mum, I might never truly see my household.
'Obviously throughout the year I'm away in several elements of the world, I've acquired locations I can keep however my actual base, my home is with mum so I nonetheless can wake up and see her and spend time together with her once I can.'
Joshua lives a notoriously personal life and moved back into mother's two bed room ex-council flat in 2017 in Golders Inexperienced having bought the property for £175,000. He discovered his boxing commerce in nearby Finchley ABC fitness center.
'In our culture you grow up with your loved ones,' Joshua stated last yr. 'We develop up in our circle of relatives houses for a very long time. We help our mother and father. Why am I going to move out and depart my mum by herself for some woman?'
Turki Alalshikh, the man chargeable for delivering a few of the largest fights in boxing in Saudi, has promised to ship another large showdown later within the yr.
With Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk meeting on 18 Might to crown the division's fist undisputed champion since Lennox Lewis, Alalshikh insists the winner of that bout will later meet the winner of Joshua vs Ngannou.
Fury vs Joshua has come close to being made but has fallen by way of on several events, denying sports activities followers what would certainly be the most important struggle in the historical past of British boxing.
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Joshua stays hopeful it can be delivered 'sooner fairly than later'.
'I might say before later, it is in in the pipeline, it's been bubbling for a long time, it has to happen. It's undoubtedly going to occur ahead of later,' Joshua stated.
He added: There's a map. These are the checkpoints and if I can full these checkpoints Fury is part of my journey for positive. And I'm positive I'm part of his as nicely.
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