Episode 949
Anthony Joshua
Sun, 2019-Dec-08 01:09 UTC
Length - 2:26
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With 273,948 views on Saturday, 7 December 2019 our article of the day is Anthony Joshua.
Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua, (born 15 October 1989) is a British professional boxer. He is a two-time unified heavyweight champion, having held the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, and IBO titles since December 2019, and previously between 2016 and June 2019. At regional level, he held the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles from 2014 to 2016.
Joshua represented England at the 2011 AIBA World Boxing Championships as an amateur in the super-heavyweight division, winning a silver medal; he also represented Great Britain at the 2012 Olympics, winning gold. In 2014, a year after turning professional, he was named Prospect of the Year by The Ring magazine. In 2017, his victorious fight against Wladimir Klitschko was named 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 a gold medal at the Olympics and a world title by a major professional sanctioning body, as well as being the first British heavyweight to do so.
As of June 2019, Joshua is ranked as the world's third best active heavyweight by BoxRec, and fourth by The Ring magazine and the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:09 UTC on Sunday, 8 December 2019.
For the full current version of the article, see Anthony Joshua on Wikipedia.
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