British Boxer Anthony
Oluwafemi Olasheni Joshua was once on vacation to Nigeria; his country of
birth along with his parents so as to teach him some discipline of the Nigerian
Culture. The boxer is set to become Britain’s most successful fighter if he
defeats Wladimir Klitschko of Ukraine in a WBA heavyweight match-up next
month, once lived in a boarding school in Lagos for six months.
‘I thought I was
going there (Nigeria) on holiday,’ said the 27-year-old. ‘I wasn’t prepared for
it. It was a boarding school as well. It was a change and I thought I was
going to go for the full course: 5.30am in the morning, up fetch your water,
put like an iron in your water to warm it up. Your clothes had to be washed and
ironed. ‘At
the time you think ‘Why?’, but as you get older you think it was good that you
experienced it. It was good for me. I think my mum was trying to do some
business there; maybe she had it in her mind. ‘You don’t just randomly decide to move there. She
might have been thinking about it, but didn’t inform us because we were kids.
We stayed out there, not long, only six months.’
Even though the
family was back in London six months later, he credits the beatings he got for
helping him become the tough fighter that he is today.
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