The 27-year-old world champion engaged in what many have described as one of the greatest boxing matches of all time to defend his IBF title against Wladimir Klitschko in front of 90,000 fans at Wembley Stadium. Both fighters reportedly received a £15million fee for the fight.

The fight was epic in every sense and both fighters left the ring with a deeper respect of each other and maybe even a lifelong friendship from their post fight reactions.

But Anthony wasn’t always the golden boy. Falling with the wrong crowd, being arrested multiple times, monitored by police and luckily avoiding lengthly jail sentences he could be just another black man in jail right now.

But he climbed above all that now and there every step of the way has been his mother Yeta.

He has such a strong relationship with her that he even lives at home with her, in the social housing home that he grew up in. He has purchased the home for her.

Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/how-boxing-saved-anthony-joshua-10310815

He does own a half million pound penthouse nearby but that’s for yoga instructor Nicole Osbourne, the mother of his son Joseph.

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