{"id":294584,"date":"2023-11-08T09:24:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T09:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=294584"},"modified":"2023-11-08T09:24:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T09:24:31","slug":"joshua-was-stopped-by-police-with-drugs-because-he-was-big-and-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/boxing\/joshua-was-stopped-by-police-with-drugs-because-he-was-big-and-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua was stopped by police with drugs because he was &apos;big and black&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Anthony Joshua claims he was stopped with drugs by police in 2011 because he was &#8216;big and black&#8217; before being found with eight ounces of cannabis&#8230; as tells Louis Theroux he had the &#8216;wrong complexion and wrong connection&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua has opened up on his troubled upbringing\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Joshua was stopped by police officers with eight ounces of cannabis in 2011\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Anthony Joshua is the Emma Raducanu of boxing: Listen to why on The Hook\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anthony Joshua believes he was stopped by police with drugs in 2011 because he was &#8216;big and black&#8217; &#8211; as he claimed he had the &#8216;wrong complexion and the wrong connection&#8217; during his interview with Louis Theroux.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua had a troubled upbringing before his rise to becoming a world boxing champion and was made to wear an electronic tag during his amateur career having been charged with possession with intent to supply a class B drug.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The heavyweight boxer opened up on his troubles in his early life during his revealing interview with Theroux on the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua said he had been wearing a Team GB tracksuit when he was stopped by police in north London with eight ounces of cannabis more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It wasn&#8217;t meant for me to be a champion,&#8217; he said. &#8216;I was in Reading jail in 2009. In 2011 I was stopped while I was in the Olympics team. I started smoking more as time went on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/08\/77545549-0-image-a-1_1699431908931.jpg\" height=\"354\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Anthony Joshua has blamed being stopped by police with drugs in 2011 on being &#8216;big and black&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/08\/77545551-12724181-image-a-15_1699433020106.jpg\" height=\"363\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>He opened up to Louis Theroux about how he was nearly kicked off the Olympics team<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;[The eight ounces] looks like a whole heap of cash.\u00a0 When you&#8217;re big and black you could be doing 20mph and its &#8220;You&#8217;re speeding&#8221;. It is what it is. Wrong complexion and wrong connection. It&#8217;s part of the game.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>When asked what he told the officers, he replied: &#8216;I said, &#8220;I represent you. Come on, me?&#8221;&#8216;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He added that his position on the Olympics team was in huge danger before his trainer and mentor Rob McCracken pleaded for him to be reinstated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Olympic committee, I really honour them. I got kicked off the committtee at the time because of the case. I started smoking again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Sean [Murphy] from my gym called my mum and said get your son back in the gym, he&#8217;s got talent. About six months later [trainer] Rob McCracken backed me and said, &#8220;let him back in the gym, he&#8217;ll sort his life out. Trust me.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/08\/77546377-12724181-image-a-17_1699433636679.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>One year after his run-in with police, Joshua won a gold medal for Team GB at 2012 Olympics<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/08\/77546015-12724181-image-a-14_1699433017398.jpg\" height=\"456\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Joshua brushed aside his troubles with the law to become a two-time heavyweight champion<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/08\/76933461-12724181-image-a-19_1699433806323.jpg\" height=\"401\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Just a year after his run-in with the police, Joshua began to turn his life around as he won a silver medal at the 2011 World Championships in Baku before winning a gold medal in the London 2012 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>That achievement significantly boosted his profile and led to him becoming a professional boxer in 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just 16 fights later he would become a world champion after defeating Charles Martin to claim the IBF belt in 2016 &#8211; before becoming a superstar and the unified heavyweight champion following memorable wins over Wladimir Klitschko and Joseph Parker.<\/p>\n<p>Cracks have started to show in the career of Joshua, however, after a shocking KO loss to unfancied Mexican fighter Andy Ruiz in 2019 &#8211; which he avenged later that year &#8211; before crushing back-to-back losses against Oleksandr Usyk.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the documentary, Joshua also opened up about his personal life &#8211; revealing why he still lives with his mum aged 34 &#8211; and that any girlfriend he has in the future will have to &#8216;marry his family&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/08\/77502103-12724181-Anthony_Joshua_has_revealed_why_he_still_lives_with_his_mother_Y-a-18_1699433801942.jpg\" height=\"546\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Joshua also revealed why he still lives with his mother Yeta Odusanya at the age of 34<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I still live with my mum,&#8217; the two-time world champion told the BBC. &#8216;In our culture, we grew up in our own family home, we support our parents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Why am I going to move out and leave my mum by herself, for some girl? Family is the most important thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When a girl gets with me, she ain&#8217;t just marrying me, she&#8217;s marrying my family.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The grounded boxing star, who is not publicly in a relationship, admitted that he likes to keep his personal life private as he cannot live up to the expectations people have of him.<\/p>\n<p>He continued: &#8216;Are we going to dissect everything I say and use it as a narrative to create a story? That&#8217;s why I keep myself to myself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You put all this pressure on yourself to come and be this big star and be perfect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m telling you, they&#8217;ll pull you down. The higher you are, the bigger the drop.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/article-12724181\/Anthony-Joshua-claims-stopped-drugs-police-2011-big-black-eight-ounces-cannabis-tells-Louis-Theroux-wrong-complexion-wrong-connection.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Anthony Joshua claims he was stopped with drugs by police in 2011 because he was &#8216;big and black&#8217; before being found with eight ounces of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/boxing\/joshua-was-stopped-by-police-with-drugs-because-he-was-big-and-black\/\" title=\"Joshua was stopped by police with drugs because he was &amp;apos;big and black&amp;apos;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Joshua was stopped by police with drugs because he was &amp;apos;big and black&amp;apos; 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