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The Olympic gold medallist is favourite to retain his IBF world heavyweight title and take the vacant WBA belt.
He will also earn a multi-million pound payday in what is being billed Britain’s richest fight.
But it could have been a different story for the 27-year-old fighter, who was more interested in getting up to no good until he discovered boxing.
The first time he walked into a boxing club, with his fighter cousin Ben Ileyemi who hoped it might keep him off the streets, it was clear he had a big future.
Spencer Oliver, the former European super-featherweight champion, was there the night Joshua strolled into his family’s gym, having never even picked up a pair of gloves before – and immediately knew he was a star.
“It seems a cliché when we say boxing was a person’s saving grace, but it really was in Big Josh’s case,” he explains.
“When he arrived I’m pretty sure he was on an Asbo at the time. His physical presence stood out straightaway.
“Ben had brought him in to get him off the streets. Josh looked raw and strong a h t m R O b a 1 la g t J w