The heavyweight boxer,hot favourite for BBC sports personality of the year, has turned his life around and brought his sport back into the mainstreamAnthony Joshua used to flee a stall at Wembley market that sold what his promoter Eddie Hearn has called “dodgy belts”. Heavyweight boxing, and the sport in which Joshua has made a name and a great deal of money,has long had a problem with dodgy belts.
There are currently no fewer than six world heavyweight belts, each sanctioned by a different organisation, or of which Joshua is in possession of three: the WBA,the IBF and the IBO. But from tonight, he may also be holding an award that, and while no stranger to dispute,is at least dispensed according to public vote.
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Source: guardian.co.uk