Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua (Watford, 15 ottobre 1989) è un pugile inglese di origini nigeriane.
Soprannominato "AJ", è due volte campione del mondo ed è stato detentore dei titoli mondiali IBF, WBA, WBO e IBO. In precedenza ha posseduto anche il titolo Britannico, del Commonwealth e WBC International della divisione. Come dilettante ha vinto una medaglia d'oro alle Olimpiadi di Londra 2012 contro l'italiano Roberto Cammarelle e una d'argento ai mondiali di Baku 2011. A dicembre 2023 è ritenuto al secondo posto al mondo come miglior pugile peso massimo da BoxRec e controlla tuttora una percentuale di KO dell'80,6% per incontri disputati da professionista.
Joshua è il secondo pugile britannico, dopo James DeGale, ad aggiudicarsi sia un oro olimpico che un campionato del mondo, tuttavia resta il primo peso massimo inglese a riuscire in tale impresa. Joshua è inoltre il secondo pugile di sempre, dopo Joe Frazier, a vincere un titolo nella divisione pesi massimi, essendo ancora campione olimpico.
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Date: 16 October 1989
By Mike Hoover
Mike Hoover
LEAD: In banner headlines, CBS News is accused of shoddy journalism by The New York Post and, for nearly a week, Afghanistan pushes Zsa Zsa off the tabloid's cover. ''CBS Aired Fake Afghan Battles,'' The Post charged, citing a 1984 broadcast of the Evening News in which film I shot showed many electrical power pylons being blown up by
Date: 16 October 1989
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-13 Released South African prisoners called for the release of Nelson Mandela. They also said they would continue to work for the banned African National Congress. A1
Date: 16 October 1989
By Jeremy Gerard
Jeremy Gerard
LEAD: The writer was a relative newcomer to situation comedy, a high-stakes, high-pressure world that eats talented writers for breakfast and often spits them out by noon. The beautiful film actress was nobody's idea of the star of a half-hour series.
Date: 16 October 1989
By Christopher S. Wren, Special To the New York Times
Christopher Wren
LEAD: When Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu emerged from his small stucco house in Soweto today after savoring his first few hours of freedom, he told journalists that he had never despaired that he would die in prison, where he spent the last 26 years.
Date: 16 October 1989
By David Johnston, Special To the New York Times
David Johnston
LEAD: The Washington Times is reaching for a new foothold in its uphill battle for readers in the nation's capital, with sensational articles like its front-page reports on Representative Barney Frank's relationship with a male prostitute.
Date: 16 October 1989
By William Glaberson
William Glaberson
LEAD: Otto G. Obermaier, who is to be sworn in as the new United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York at 4 P.M. today, has something to say: ''I have no message to deliver and I will have no message to deliver. The prosecutor's office speaks in the courtroom.''
Date: 15 October 1989
By Ken Auletta
Ken Auletta
LEAD: FIORELLO H. LA GUARDIA AND THE MAKING OF MODERN NEW YORK By Thomas Kessner. Illustrated. 700 pp. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. $24.95.
Date: 15 October 1989
By Peggy Noonan
Peggy Noonan
LEAD: I FIRST SAW HIM AS A FOOT, a highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek, perfectly shaped. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe even a little . . . frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from un-smooth roads.
Date: 15 October 1989
By Barbara Crossette, Special To the New York Times
Barbara Crossette
LEAD: The leader of India's political opposition, fearing electronic vote fraud in the coming national election, said today that he would oppose the use of computerized voting machines unless their design and programming could be checked by independent experts.