Heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk has backed Anthony Joshua to return to the ring eventually. This comes after the death of friends in a car crash, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, he heard a desire to continue fighting in AJ’s voice when they spoke recently, and it’ll be a good way to use the chance God gave him to live.
Usyk added that the mother of a friend he lost once told him her son would be happy to watch him fight from heaven.
His words, “I’ve already spoken with him [Joshua].
I heard a desire to continue in his voice – for the friends he lost and for the chance to live that the Lord gave him.
Once I spoke with the mother of my fallen comrade, and she told me: “Oleksandr, he would be very proud that you are continuing your work; he will watch you from heaven.
And he, I think, does that. And not just him, but all my loved ones who passed away defending our country. They are my guardian angels who help me in the ring.”
WOW.
Anthony Joshua, OBE (born 15 October 1989) is a British professional boxer who 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.
Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua was born on 15 October 1989 in Watford, Hertfordshire, the son of Yeta and Robert Joshua. His mother is Nigerian, while his father is of Nigerian and Irish ancestry. Joshua’s Nigerian background can be specifically traced back to the Yoruba people, amongst whom he is of aristocratic rank.
His cousin, Ben Ileyemi, is also a professional boxer. The pair made their professional debuts together in 2013. Joshua spent some of his early years in Nigeria as a boarding school student at Mayflower School in Ikenne.
Following his parents’ divorce when he was 12, he returned to the UK halfway through Year Seven to join Kings Langley Secondary School. Growing up on the Meriden Estate in Garston, Hertfordshire, he was called “Femi” by his friends and former teachers, due to his middle name, Oluwafemi. He excelled at football and athletics and broke his school’s Year Nine 100 m record with a time of 11.6 seconds.
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