Lots of ladies make their intentions known to marry, Nigerian-British Boxer Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua shortly Anthony Joshua (AJ).
These ladies are responding to the revelations by the two-time unified heavyweight champion’s
challenges in finding true love, stating that he’s yet to find someone to call his girlfriend.
The WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, and IBO title holder recently revealed TheSunUK about life in lockdown with his family including becoming “super dad” to his four-year-old son, JJ.
He confessed that balancing professional and family life has not been easy.
He has conquered many great men in the ring but he struggles to have his heart conquered by true love.
He has plenty of titles but husband is not one of them. AJ says: “I think you can date and still be a successful sportsman but it’s hard to find a balance and I would have to compromise — which I’ve not felt able to do. My dad never gave me advice about much. But in terms of relationships what I have learnt and what I tell my son is, it would be nice to find a high school sweetheart and to grow together because as you get older you get set in your ways”.
He’s not sure how easy it would be for him to compromise and. make a relationship work as he aspires further in his boxing career. He said he refuses to date or put any lady in a position where hopes are high.
He opines that his future girlfriend must know how to handle fame and that he has not had a girlfriend in a while.
He believes in growing together with her:“I don’t have a girlfriend and I haven’t had one for a while. But as I get older I do think it would be nice to have someone, someone to grow with as well — but I honestly haven’t found anyone.”
He thinks to be extroverted and mingling with top celebs may make favour smile on him. His kind of girl must be understanding, secured, down to earth, family-oriented and someome who would take his parents as her parents.
He said: “It takes time to grow that and, as I said, now I am older I am stuck in my ways. As I get older it would be nice to bring someone into my world but it’s dependent on who and I just haven’t found someone yet. Maybe we can go on a hunt. We have all the time now”.
AJ PROFILE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Joshua
He is 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 the regional level, he held the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles from 2014 to 2016.
He represented England as an amateur at the 2011 World Championships 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 the first British heavyweight to do so.
Many Nigerians don’t like it when AJ is described as a Briton. They believe he is more Nigerian than British.
He 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.
AJ’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.
