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Britain’s new world heavyweight champion was rejected by Nigeria’s boxing federation

Britain’s new world heavyweight champion was rejected by Nigeria’s boxing federation

It could have all turned out differently for Anthony Joshua, the new world boxing heavyweight champion. Back in 2008, Joshua, then a greenhorn boxing hopeful, harbored lofty ambitions to compete on the international stage. Born in Watford, 16 miles north of London, to parents of Nigerian origins, he contacted Nigeria’s boxing federation about possibly representing…