Anthony Joshua

Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua, known as AJ and born in 1989, is a British professional boxer who held the unified heavyweight championship twice between 2017 and 2021, along with the IBO title. As an amateur he won super-heavyweight silver for England at the 2011 World Championships and gold for Great Britain at the 2012 Olympics. He turned professional in 2013 and was named Prospect of the Year by The Ring in 2014. He won the IBF title in 2016, the WBA Super and IBO titles in 2017 and the WBO title in 2018, lost them to Andy Ruiz Jr. in June 2019, regained them in December 2019, and lost them to Oleksandr Usyk in 2021 and again in 2022. His 2017 fight with Wladimir Klitschko was named Fight of the Year by The Ring and the Boxing Writers Association of America, and he was made an MBE in 2013 and an OBE in 2018.