Exclusive: How Nigerian Boxing Officials Rejected Anthony Joshua
Jeremiah Okorodudu, a previous boxing champion, has uncovered how boxing rave existing apart from everything else, Anthony Joshua, was dismisses by Nigerian boxing authorities nine years back.
Joshua got worldwide consideration and turned into a sweetheart of boxing fans Saturday night after he embarrassed Wladimir Klitschko, at the Wembley Stadium in England.
Talking with UK Sun, Okorodud reviewed that nine years back, Joshua's endeavors to speak to Nigeria at the 2008 Olympic Games were vain as the Nigerian boxing authorities turned him down.
He stated, "Joshua was in Nigeria once to interface with his foundations and I believe that was in 2007.
"He needed an opportunity to vie for trials in front of the 2008 Beijing Olympics qualifiers, yet he was denied and not given a possibility.
"Frustrated, he backpedaled to England to speak to Great Britain.
"He went ahead to win a gold that could have been a first for Nigeria at the Olympics.
"In the event that exclusive they had enabled him to go after Nigeria, that gold would have been a Nigerian gold and not Great Britain's."
Another Nigeria mentor at the time, Adegboyega Adeniji-Adele additionally affirmed the way that Joshua was at the Nigerian camp.
"Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua is his name and his family originated from Ogun state in Nigeria," he said.
"When he went to, his goal was to speak to Nigeria at the Olympics yet he was denied in the trials. He had no other choice than to go to Britain.
"It's Nigeria's misfortune, Britain's pick up. By and by, I feel dismal that they let him go and those individuals ought to be made to clarify why it was difficult to give him a shot."
Source: Vanguard
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