Joshua fights for lags
Joshua plots a prison mission
BOXER superstar Anthony Joshua is heading back to prison – to teach lags how they can turn their lives around just like him.
ANTHONY Joshua wants to go into prisons to tell cons how they too can make millions if they turn their lives around.
The heavyweight champ, who pocketed £15million for stopping Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley on Saturday, used to be a street-fighting bricklayer.
He ended up on remand in Reading prison for brawling before being released on an electronic tag.
Later he was arrested for possessing cannabis. He escaped being jailed, but the offence led to a temporary boxing ban. However it encouraged Joshua to turn his back on crime, focus on his training and save his brawling for the ring.
He won Olympic gold in 2012, turned pro and after defeating Klitschko now holds three world titles.
Joshua, 27, who celebrated by picking up a new Range Rover, wants other lags follow his example.
He said: “I’d like to inspire kids. I’d like to do talks in prisons because they’ll know my story and understand me.”
Arrest
He said his arrest for cannabis possession while wearing his Team GB tracksuit was the turning point in his life.
“The arrest changed me a lot,” he said. “It forced me to grow up and respect my responsibilities.”
Joshua, who still lives with his social worker mum Yeta Odusanya in a former council flat in Golders Green, north London, insists that “being a boxer you have to be a man of the people”.
But sports marketing consultant Nigel Currie said: “He’s poised to become the highest-paid British sportsperson of all time. It’s that big.”
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