NAIJ.com met up with the Nigerian based family members of Anthony Oluwafemi Joshua, the new boxing World Heavyweight champion.
According to his father's brother Benjamin Ademola Joshua, sport runs in the family as many have tried playing football in their youth.
A cross section of members of Anthony Joshua's family members in Nigeria. To the right is Benjamin Joshua, Anthony's uncle
He however noted that the Joshua family are known to be academics in Sagamu, where the family house is located.
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The world heavyweight father's uncle, Oye Joshua is a retired principal, Anthony's grandmother was a matron with Mayflower school in Ikenne while his father is also an academic.
Anthony Joshua and his father
The boxer's great-grandfather is a professor who retired from the University of Ibadan and former a goalkeeper at Ijebu-Ode grammer school.
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NAIJ.com also gathered that Anthony's father Jonathan comes to Nigeria at least six times in a year but the boxer himself has not been able to do so since becoming an Olympic champion in 2012.
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Anthony's mother is Yeta Odusanya, a Nigerian while his father Anthony Joshua has a Nigerian father and Irish mother.
Watch our video below to know about the history of the Joshua family originally from Ijebu-Ode;