Anthony Joshua’s reasons for not wanting son to follow him into boxing

Anthony Joshua hopes that his young son, JJ, chooses a vocation distant from the squared-circle, contempt an illustrious vocation of his ain and its high-level fights which person made him a multi-millionaire

Anthony Joshua has admitted that helium doesn't privation his lad to travel successful his footsteps and go a boxer.

AJ has enjoyed immoderate of the eventual highs that boxing has to connection - not to notation the monetary rewards that travel with it - but helium besides understands the symptom and sacrifice needed to go a boxing world champion. And portion the likes of Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn failed to forestall their ain children from stepping into the squared-circle arsenic a profession, Joshua hopes to halt lad JJ, 8, from ever doing so.

Speaking this year, Joshua said: "I would ne'er fto him box. I americium not funny successful him boxing. You person to beryllium truthful beardown mentally to beryllium a boxer. I'm not saying helium won’t beryllium mentally beardown but I would not privation to enactment him done that intelligence pressure. I americium definite helium could fight, helium volition decidedly person the genes to bash it, but the intelligence broadside - that goes unspoken astir - I would not privation him to spell done that.

"Imagine ' Anthony Joshua ’s lad is boxing'; determination would beryllium a people connected his backmost consecutive away. It volition beryllium JJ’s prime but I volition counsel him helium could astir apt bash thing wholly antithetic and inactive bask beingness - but helium inactive has to enactment hard!" Former satellite champions Eubank and Benn each shared the aforesaid sentiment arsenic AJ successful presumption of their youngsters taking up a vocation successful boxing, however, they were yet incapable to forestall the calling.

AJ added: " This occupation is not fun. I bask showcasing my skills but to get to that constituent is not fun. It’s a batch of sacrifice, a batch of passionateness and dedication. It takes a batch and it takes a batch retired of you. I’ll person to hold for 15 years to get done to the extremity of my vocation and think, 'F***, I got done each that, present fto maine spell and person fun'. JJ could unrecorded a bully beingness but I person to hold until I discontinue earlier I tin beryllium backmost and yet bask life."

Joshua has captured astir each accolade to beryllium had successful nonrecreational boxing since kicking disconnected his vocation implicit a decennary ago. The hard-hitter from Watford was a portion of Team GB and achieved a super-heavyweight golden medal astatine the 2012 Games successful London earlier turning pro the precise adjacent year.

In the years since, helium has racked up an awesome grounds of 28-3, winning the WBC International, Commonwealth, British, IBF, WBA (Super), WBO and IBO titles. In fact, the lone rubric which has eluded him and prevented him from undisputed greatness is the WBC belt.

Titleless since losing his WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, and IBO heavyweight titles to Oleksandr Usyk successful 2021, Joshua faces IBF champion Daniel Dubois this play with hopes of different ace astatine undisputed glory successful the adjacent future. The victor of the combat could perchance look either Usyk oregon Tyson Fury depending connected the result of their satellite rubric rematch travel December this year.

Usyk bushed Fury successful May to go the latest undisputed heavyweight champion but was stripped of his IBF strap successful June for opting to instrumentality a rematch with the 'Gypsy King' alternatively than facing mandatory challenger Dubois. DDD won the interim strap earlier this twelvemonth with a triumph implicit Filip Hrgovic, which was upgraded to the afloat rubric aft Fury vacated his belt.

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