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Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua, OBE is a British professional boxer. He is a two-time unified world heavyweight champion, having held the WBA, IBF, WBO, and IBO titles since December 2019, and previously between 2016 and June 2019.
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Transcribed:
Hello, everyone welcome once again to another episode on talking fight of neil the deal with neil the deal himself friday evening, so we’re on a little bit early 6 30 eastern standard time and neil before we get going, i got ta say he did a great episode.
Last night on tyson fury and you learned something new every day i did not know he was born in lancashire, which is where i was born, hey tyson, if you’re out there and listening, i was born in the full wood infirmary, which is impressed in lancashire uh.
Pretty cool uh, so there you go so tonight.
We’Ve got another another big boy, lined up on the episode, uh featuring all british fighters this week so and you know what they seem to be having a great old time in the heavyweight division.
So he got lined up tonight, hey good evening, graham thanks for having me out good evening, guys talking fight fans all around the world, thanks for coming out and checking out the show yeah we’re uh we’re going to continue with the uh with the fighters of the Uk and we’re going to wrap it up tonight with the uh, the challenger in the well.
I guess he’s not really a challenger because he’s got more belts than tyson fury, but uh we’re going to be talking about anthony joshua, guys anthony joshua, so he’s going to be the individual who will be fighting tyson fury for the unified heavyweight championship of the world.
Later on this year, like we had mentioned yesterday, they haven’t actually got a date or a location for the fight.
I understand uh uh richest man wins on that one, apparently from what i’ve been reading, so they’re battling it out uh.
You know all these different guys guys from asia guys from saudi arabia guys so, but as far as i can see it, it will be when it does go down.
It will be the biggest uh, probably the biggest fight in british boxing history.
So you guys definitely want to watch this one.
It will obviously be a pay-per-view but uh.
I think it’s one that everybody wants to check out.
So yesterday we talked about tyson fury today we’re going to talk about his opponent, anthony joshua.
They call him obe.
I don’t exactly know why, but uh he does have a nickname.
Everybody seems to call him aj and uh when he was a younger kid all his buddies and his teachers, apparently in school, used to call him femi, femi f-e-m-i.
Now that that’s because of his middle name, so we’ll go over that he’s of he’s his parents are of nigerian descent, so his full name is anthony hulowa, femi, osami, joshua, ol olseni.
So, like i say in school, he was he was nicknamed femi and that’s how all his buddies, probably my buddies, still call me by my nicknames from i was high school they’re, not the greatest – i’m not even going to get into that, but you know i’m sure Some of his buddies still call him femi and he says no, no, no, my name’s aj now or you know so.
He was uh born october 15 1989, which makes him 31 years old.
He was born in watford united kingdom.
Do you know where watford is graham off the top of my head? No, i don’t know just curious if that’s in the southern, just after it just after i admitted i was born in england and and you pull that question out your hat and that now you got me there.
I don’t know where watford is.
I know where london england is, but i don’t know any of the other towns really.
You know what i mean, so i’m just curious if uh, because a lot of these boxers, graham that we’ve been that we we’ve been uh, we’ve been we’ve been talking about, are from that southern area of england.
I mean, like i say they all seem to be in the southern area, so i’m just curious if watford was in the southern area.
So let’s move on here his career started in 2013 and he is actively present at the present moment.
He fights in the heavyweight division and uh he’s had a really good career so far, like really really good.
So he’s the two time unified world heavyweight champion two times.
He has won that uh, that distinction and uh.
He won the first one in 2016 and he held those belts until 2019 and since then he has regained them from 2019 to present.
So basically, from 2016 to present he’s been uh, the unified uh champion or close to it.
You know tyson fury, does have the wbc belt now obviously, and the ring magazine belt, but that’s going to be determined in the next few months.
I understand it’s going to be may or june and it’s a two-fight deal so uh it’s going to be a mega fight, so guys check it out.
You’Ll you’re going to really like this one uh back in his early days.
He uh he also held the british and commonwealth titles 2015 and 16 and growing up in school.
He was a really good athlete growing up, so he was great at football.
He was an excellent track star.
So he’s he’s got a you know, a very athletic uh upbringing and he’s he’s moved it into the boxing ring.
Apparently one of his cousins uh got him into the boxing and uh he’s excelled at that he’s done really really well so a before he became a boxer.
This was interesting for me too.
He was a bricklayer, his uh.
He was a bricklayer.
He you know stonemason bricklayer, so uh, that’s pretty cool, i kind of enjoy that.
So i decided you know he decided that bricklaying wasn’t his thing and i guess boxing was so we’re going to talk a little bit about his pro totals or amazon amateur totals now.
So his amateur totals he had a great amateur career gram.
I didn’t realize he was actually uh involved in the amateur fighting that much.
I do remember him in in one olympics, so um, let’s just go over his amateur totals he had a total of 43 fights of which he won 40 fights and he lost three fights out of the uh out of the 43.
So that’s a pretty that’s a pretty good record.
He began boxing in 2007 at the age of 18, which is a little late to be starting, but hey he’s done really well, obviously, starting at 18 years old, he uh.
He won the 2009 2010 herring gate box cup.
Now i wanted to look into that and i didn’t look at it, but i’m gon na look into that.
I’Ve never heard of this uh this amateur boxing um tournament.
I guess it’s called a herring hearing.
A hearing aid, so i’m gon na look into that and just check it out.
If you guys want to check that out check it out uh, he won the uh senior aba championships in 2010 as well uh 2010.
He also became great britain’s a boxing team member for great britain and he was a champion at uh at the great britain championships that year.
So you know every time he seems to come up against something or uh try something new.
He excels very well.
So he he’s he’s doing fantastic.
You know what i mean graham 2011.
He was named amateur boxer of the year in the great in great britain by the boxing uh writers club.
So um he’s got that distinction under his belt and uh in 2011.
He won the silver medal at the world championships for uh, great britain and the biggest amateur accomplishment he had in 2012.
He won the gold medal at the 2008 beijing olympics in the super heavyweight division.
So he is a gold medal olympic champion.
So he’s had a really really good amateur career and he’s represented his country, obviously very, very well and uh, and then he moved into his pro pro game.
You know in his pro game, he got better.
You know he got a little older and he got a little better and he’s he’s he’s he’s a serious cat.
This guy, like big time you know so his pro – totals we’re going to go with uh 25 total fights he’s got 25 total fights of which he has 24 wins out of 25 fights.
He has 22 kos, which gives him a knockout percentage of 88.
He does have the one loss and we’ll talk about that later on uh.
He turned pro in 2013 like we had mentioned, and he had a 20 fight, uh knockout streak going graham his first 20 fights.
He knocked out all his opponents first 20 until he he won a unanimous decision.
Uh over his 21st opponent.
So he’s got he’s got some power.
There’S no doubt about it.
You know um, that’s some serious knockout power, 20 out of uh, 20 22 out of 24 is big time right so yeah he lost that one fight, it was.
It was a unified heavyweight championship fight and he lost the belts to andy ruiz jr.
We know who andy ruiz jr is, and that was on june 1st 2019 uh.
That fight is one that i think you guys should watch because uh it was kind of back and forth.
Like ruiz went down, uh anthony went down, ruiz went down, you know it was one of those where, but in the end uh he did lose.
He did lose that fight and he lost his belts to ruiz, but there was a rematch scheduled for december 7th 2019 and he regained all his belts back from ruiz, so that was uh.
I believe the the shortest reign as a champion or something like that uh with andy ruiz jr, was something like 85 days or something like that.
So since then, he’s held those belts and uh he’s never talked to anybody.
I looked uh at all the opponents that he’s fought, he’s fought world champions, uh he’s fought everybody and anybody who they put him up against he’s fighting he’s fighting now he’s getting up into the last couple of years he’s getting up into the really high end: uh Fighters, the big time uh heavyweight fighters in the world so, like i say, he’s gon na, be apparently fighting uh tyson fury and that’s going to be the probably one of the biggest fights of the year.
So you guys all want to check that out and i think that’s going to be his toughest fight.
Yet, graham you know what i’m saying you know: dyson fury is is a different uh entity at six foot nine, although joshua is six foot six and he is 250 pounds.
So i mean you’re talking about a guy six foot: nine 280 pounds against the guy six foot, six 250 pounds.
So this is going to be a serious battle between these two bohemoth.
I would call them heavyweights they’re just giants, so this is gon na, be fun.
Uh he’s recognized right now, amazingly enough as um one of the most marketable athletes in the world, graham, which i didn’t realize either uh he’s he’s.
He’S got a lot of uh a lot of sponsorship, going he’s sponsored by under armour he’s sponsored by uh, dr dre, and those beats headphones.
You know the ones you stick on your head, the dr dre beats.
You know boom boom boom boom, that kind of stuff and uh.
Apparently there’s a energy drink company out of japan that has paid them handsomely in there.
Some company called uh leucozade lucozade is a japanese energy drink company have you heard of them and they’re they’re? They sell a lot in the in the united kingdom, but i haven’t seen them here in canada.
Have you ever seen a yeah drink yeah? Absolutely it’s kind of like uh orange fanta, but a little bit healthy for you.
If you’re a little bit feeling under the weather, you’d have a lucas, ade uh, my mom would certainly uh buy bottles of this stuff and uh would find it in specialty stores when we moved to canada so yeah, oh really, i’ve heard of it.
I didn’t know it was a japanese company, though yeah apparently they’ve been around since the 20s.
So it’s not a it’s, not a newer company or anything, but he’s sponsored by lucazade and uh and as well like we said uh dr dre and um and he’s he’s a very, very marketable individual around the world.
He’S very, very well known and uh he’s only moving up, so i’m really looking forward again to this fight.
That’S coming up now the notable fights that that i’ve seen and watched him in.
I seen him uh back in the day on some undercards and he was his his first literally 10 or 15.
Maybe even 20 fights didn’t last much more than a round, so he had didn’t really get a lot of uh ring time so to speak.
You know what i mean so, but recently he’s been uh he’s been getting a little more ring time.
So that’s good that that’ll keep him, keep them in the mix right, but the notable fights that i that i saw that i really liked obviously were joshua versus andy ruiz one and two they were both really good fights.
The one fight that i really liked was when he fought vladimir klitschko anthony joshua versus vladimir klitschko.
There was uh rumbling that there was going to be a rematch, but klitschko decided to retire.
So there was never the rematch on that one and then he recently his most recent fight uh december 2019.
He fought a guy named kubat pulev poulev, who was the number one uh challenger for the belt for all the belts and uh.
He ended up, knocking him out, and that was a good fight too.
So you guys want to check him out.
Those fights are really good uh.
He was also appointed a member of the order of order of the british empire.
That is a big award.
Is it not graham a member of the order of the british empire for his services to boxing in 2000? That’S a great escalator! That’S where you get the obe from yeah obe! That’S what i was going to ask you.
The obe is the order of british empire.
That is correct right, which is which is which is really cool, so um.
Now we’re going to talk just quick at the end here a little bit about his pay-per-view stuff um.
I was really shocked to see that this is probably why he’s one of the most marketable guys he has over 12 million uh buys in the uk in the pay-per-view, buys all right in all of his uh pay-per-view fights.
Just out of the uk.
He’S only had two international pay-per-view uh fights international pay-per-views like uh de zone, or you know espn or showtime, or you know all the different top rank whatever it is.
But in those two fights it’s got, 18 million buys so he’s really bringing in the people and uh everybody’s.
Looking forward to seeing him again, like i’m, really looking forward to this big tyson, fury fight, it’s going to be a it’s going to be again could be fight of the year.
There’S a there’s a bunch of them this year between canelo and uh and uh tyson fury and joshua anthony joshua.
There’S some big fights coming up.
So the all you boxing fans out there.
This is going to be a great year for all of us, hey! Graham.
I really truly believe it will be absolutely who’s, not looking forward to the battle of britain.
That’S right, the battle of britain.
I know yeah, it’s unbelievable! That uh, like we’ve, been talking about the british uh heavyweight fighters.
Man there’s so many of these guys that are so good.
Now it’s uh, it’s gon na, be interesting to see how the americans and uh all the different heavyweights around the world are gon na react to all this, and you know how the americans are they’re, going to definitely want to have somebody in there sooner than later.
Right so yeah, i’m pretty sure deontay wilder is going to get in the mix after this fight too so he’s going to want his uh chance at glory and money.
Oh victory, oh big time.
He wants it right now, but he’s he’s already.
He already did the two fury, fights and yeah and uh, but he’ll be back for sure he’s.
Definitely in the mix so it’ll be interesting to see you know who the who they match him up with, and he might even be the guy that uh fights the winner of these two guys right.
You know that’s right, that’s right, yeah, so that that could that definitely could come true, so so uh it is friday.
I guess you guys are going to have yourselves a good evening.
Have yourselves a safe weekend, enjoy yourselves we’re going to be back monday, uh.
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Take care of yourselves have fun with the kids, whatever you’re doing and stay safe, we’ll talk to you then enjoy.
Thank you very much and uh.
Just on that england tip uh.
Watford is just on the northwest corner of london about 50, i’m not gon na, say a small town, but a smallish town just on the northwest corner about 15 miles outside london.
So if you’re asking about the south yeah, i would say he’s part of that southern contingent of boxers that are becoming so famous these days as opposed to the tyson furies who come from lancashire, which is not the southern part of england right all right, cool they’re, They’Re they’re whatever’s, going on over there they’re doing it right because they’re all they all seem to be in the mix now and uh they’re, all great, all the guys, all the all the british fighters.
I want to thank you guys, all for uh, all the great fights and stuff and we’ll be looking out for all of you, guys, daniel dubois, anthony yard, uh tyson fury, yeah, like just all of them, anthony joshua, there’s just a ton of them right, billy, joel Saunders is coming up too, so it’s been a it’s been a blast hanging out in uh in the uk all week.
Man, it’s been fun.
So thanks again guys see you later enjoy your weekend.
We’Ll talk to you soon see you monday.
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