Anthony Joshua: The Dark Past of Femi | BOXING
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- “The Dark Past Of Femi” is a captivating exploration of Anthony Joshua’s lesser-known life story, tracing his transformation from his tumultuous youth as ‘Femi’ on a council estate in Watford to his rise as a global boxing icon. This documentary-style video unveils Joshua’s early struggles in an immigrant family, his brushes with the criminal justice system, and the turning points that shifted his path from potential incarceration to the disciplined realm of boxing. We also take a look into the controversies that have marked his career, including his reactions to defeat and his views on social and racial issues. “The Dark Past Of Femi” offers more than just a sports story; it’s a narrative of resilience, redemption, and relentless pursuit of greatness, making it a must-watch for boxing fans and those who appreciate a powerful comeback story. #anthonyjoshua #boxing #documentary #edicational
Joshua is his name, Femi is also his name. He's not abandoning any of his names. It is just normal for Nigerians to have more than 1 names. We mostly have a traditional name and a religious name, then our last name. Meaning that we have atleast 3 names.Our Caribbean brother needed a little education.
Actually, Joshua is his surname. His Nigerian great grandfather's baptismal name. They used to call him Baba Josh in the Nigerian town of Ṣàgámù where his family is from.
I'm Caribbean but I am more interested in Africa because I'm African and proud . Afro Caribbean people can be very ignorant and rude towards African people.
And your Nigerian scammer name..
@@mustertherohirrim7315 if you never been scammed by a Nigerian just like 99% of you guys that often throw this hate meme around.. then I would ask you to go get a life and stop hating and lie spreading about Nigerians. Because as much as this stereotype of Nigerians are scammer allegations been flying around I never seen one out of people spreading this lies that can confirmed he or she was or have been scammed by a Nigerian either in past or present with evidence. Which makes people like you nothing but a low life haters
still AJ for life
It’s funny how AJ has won now everyone is jumping on the bandwagon, yet these were the same people shitting on him whilst he was struggling. Can’t make this up.
Exactly yeah no stay on that side of the fence w the fake support.
Boxing is weird also when ever someone loses the fans ask them to retire
Exactly
That's just how people act in life ,not just boxing
@@lemonsqueezer21990 I hate it that's why I like my own company
So people hate on AJ because he has the ability to recover from his mistakes and those haters never can
Exactly
No, that is not why many people dislike Joshua. They dislike him because he is a vainglorius dimwit, an appalingly bad loser, repeat criminal offender, a bully and a bigot with no loyalty to anyone or anything. Oh yes, he also has a massive sense of entitlement and a victomhood complex. There is a lot to dislike.
I love AJ, and what he brings to the table. I can’t wait to see him become the undisputed champion!!!
well that's too bad because that isn't going to happen.
there are better fighters
@@Marabarra94 Well we’ll see. It won’t be Fury. Fury is done. Ngannou almost knocked Fury out LOL. AJ will be champ again in 2024. Book it. 💯
@@phillyeaglesfan maybe a champ. but not undisputed.
i most say he did better then i expected in his latest fight.
@@Marabarra94 His ultimate goal is undisputed. Both He and Eddie Hearn said that after the Wallin fight. They are going after championships now. Wilder is done. He is ranked 9th in rankings. Fury is also on the decline. That Wilder vFury trilogy took a toll on both fighters. Both of them are in decline. AJ has positioned himself back at the top of the HW division.
@@phillyeaglesfan we will see. it could have been a bad night from Fury.
he looked fine in the 3 fights before the Ngannou fight.
AJ was done right?
things change quickly in boxing.
and i don't think that Usyk is that great.
both Joshua and Dubois really hurt him with body shots that most refs would have allowed.
Joshua stopped going to the body after that punch.
that was an unfair fight.
those guys are too nice to complain and influence the ref.
Usyk was grabbing his balls to influence the ref. he was acting.
Fury will not let himself get fxcked over like that.
Nice to see a lot of love for AJ in the comments. Makes a difference from the usual hate. Cant wait to see him win the belts back. Knowing his story just makes his achievements even more impressive.
Anthony Joshua made racist and anti-British remarks. Ruiz and Dubois dropped him 9 times and cracked his glass chin😂
A.J. has shown fierce determination to re-climb the tough ladder to world boxing titles - Keep going ✊🏾✨Brother
- the second & more mature part of his career should bring the rewards he seeks and has grafted for. 🥊🙏🏾.
@guychase5842, you spoke so well and I fully agree with you. What this, excellent, video has shown me is how AJ's life has been strewn with obstacles and disappointments, from his father's estrangement to being a lost and confused young man. He has overcome these obstacles for much of his entire life, always coming back bigger, stronger, and better inside and out. I think, especially after his recent, perfectly executed, one-sided win over Wallin, AJ will once again hold all the belts and go for a very long time, through many fights, undefeated.
@@user-tb9lx1oz9n well said mate
Femi aka AJ will always be the people's champion.
In before 1k subs, and will not be long before 100k, if you keep putting out content of the quality you are. Great work, mate.
Thanks!🙏
When AJ was down, Boxing youTube was a bit silent. Now that the young man is on the rise again, the TH-cam is cashing out on his name. No AJ, no lively boxing. AJ is the man! Face of boxing!!!
Joshua in the bible was a warrior be bless
Great video put together!
I cannot believe you have less than 1000 subs, I’ve just subscribed!
Keep up the great work! 👍
Thanks for the sub! 🕵️♂️
He is Femi when he has a dark past and He is Anthony Joshua when he wins and therefore represents Great Britain right?
Yep that's sounds about white
@@sbaby-kg8hnNo it doesn't
Great video, thankyou for posting.
Glad you enjoyed it🕵️♂️
I know everything that was said here. Everyone got their journeys. Well done!
I wonder if he thinks the black race is still superior after 3 losses to non blacks, a mexican and twice to an eastern european. And if he loses to Fury that'll be even funnier.
GREAT VID !!
His new coach is very good at mind game . I’m sure he will face anyone now.
Anthony Joshua is an inspiration to this generation. Even our past mistakes are signs of what we are called to do in this world! We just need direction to get into the right path. So keep pushing everyone as we are all gonna make it one day! Just like AJ!!! We can do it! Let’s go!!! 🔥🔥🔥
WHAT A FIGHTER 3 TIMES !!
It wasn’t uncharacteristic it just showed his true colours and his act dropped 💯
A J can do anything because he's dedicated. I know he will get his greatness he strives for , go AJ.
Oluwafemi means God loves me
انتوني جوشوا الان شخص اخر اصبح اعمق من قبل سوف يجمع الالقاب جميعها و يصبح الرقم الصعب بإذن الله
This was a great doco. Put together nicely. I did not know this about AJ although i haven't followed his career as much as i have with my fav boxers but this was really interesting . Thank you for this i really enjoyed it
Much appreciated🙏
So many people jumping back on the AJ bandwagon after hating on him wen he first lose to Ruiz,i said after the first lose to Ruiz that AJ will be back & the same haters will jump back on the bandwagon again & it’s happened,iv backed the brother from day one one,it’s heavyweight boxing anything can happen wen your fighting the best put in front of you something fury & wilder couldn’t do,mark my words AJ will be the last one standing
Thank you for this insightful piece on a man who has been given an unfair burden in the sporting world. I did not know the amount of prison time he was facing as a youth. He has been a class act, and his outburst after the second Usyk loss was nothing compared to what we have seen from others. His #BlackLivesMatter comments were not divisive. If he said nothing he'd be criticized. Tyson Fury should talk to his pal Billy Joe Saunders before he accuses Joshua of any kind of racial insensitivity. As recently as Dec. 23 Joshua took the high road after Deontay Wilder's loss. I have a vision that Joshua will have a fight in the next few years that will be his redemption . It could be vs Usyk or Fury or maybe a surprise on the horizon, but his time is coming and we should appreciate him.
Well said Don. I agree 100%.
He would not ever beat usyk but if he ever climbed back to world championship again, he'd be a hall of famer, for overcoming the adversary.
Two time unified champion,, 9 top 10 wins...Hes already a hall of famer
If Usyk beats Fury he needs to retire. The last thing he needs to do is have a trilogy with AJ at 38 years old. Usyks one of my favorite fighters today, but age waits for no man
You might think that way, but most competitive athletes don't. I bet joshua would fight Usyk again if he got he chance.
@@leonardcharles59 i too, hope he will. If he comes back and win against usyk, man, that'd be a classic story.
Excellent, nonbiased video.
A very well done and unbiased account of his story, thank you for some real investigative journalism. One small note (which is my opinion), maybe use less AI images? I think sometimes they are relevant and other times they detract or are overused, other than that, the content is great! Subscribed.
Joshua was always big Femi it was the promoters that had him talking that way. That's when Josh was start getting confused anything he did was scrutinised he was listening to interviews of other boxers talking about him being only a big stiff robot that got into his head. It was mainly Fury who done that!! I would rather AJ stay as big Femi, it shows you how good he is and he's not playing a character? The dark room showed him to be himself and if he stays the way he is it looks like he is going to be a third time heavyweight champion. If he stays with Ben Davison I can see beaten usyk and getting his get back on his two loss to usyk. Then I would love to see him fight Tyson Fury it would be the fight of the century two goat heavyweights that came out of England/🇮🇪 even if Fury loses to usyk it's still be a Banger of a fight💯 but we all have to get off AJ criticising him all the time let the man be himself big Femi who he always was and we will see a better version.
tyson furys real names luke given by his dad to make him sound fierce , so hes playing a character too , i hope aj knocks him out at the end of a banging fight ,just to shut them up
tyson given by his dad lol
@@dannystewart5594 🤣👍
@@thegodfatherofboxing6230 crazy people in the world it is what it is lol
He ain't ever beating usyk bud. 😂
Great Video 💯
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Joshua always gona be big Femi from the estates just with more knowledge wisdom and understanding.
This might as well be a movie. Beautifully documented. Flawless video except the part where narrator said “get his Sh*t together”.
Thanks!🙏
I think the problem is 'expectations'. People think because he appears well mannered, he should be held in a certain light.
You fail to understand he's a fighter, he hurts people for a living, stop expecting him to be a Sunday School teacher.
Great video! Thank you from a career long supporter of AJ.🙏🏻🥊
No doubt!💪
what winds me up the most about this ''youre not strong how u beat me'' shit is USYK ACTUALLY TRIED TO PATRONISE AJ BY SAYING THAT, WATCH IT BACK! he said your strong, your strong because AJ said i dont have the skills to beat you or something
so AJ said ''your not strong how you beat me''
I remember AJ saying something along the lines of usyk not being strong but that he was skilled enough to beat AJ, so i dont think what AJ said was necessarily a bad thing.
You guys really need to cut AJ some slack for the post-fight shenanigans. Yes it was wrong, but he’s just had a 12 round fight. He was very likely concussed. It’s not the first time fighters have done uncharacteristic things after a fight.
Ajs resume is the best in heavyweight boxing
It's crazy how easily what he did at the end of the Usyk 2 fight has been forgotten. People were more interested in dragging the Benn saga out for ages, when at similar times, other boxers had popped and were forgotten about soon after. Getting on the mic and saying what he did was bad enough, but throwing the belts out of the ring has to be one of the most disrespectful things a boxer could do. The Benn saga was the perfect click bait for boxing channels. Nobody was going to drag out AJs actions in fear of not getting any airtime with him in the future. I get they have to be impartial, but the fact that some don't push subjects in case they lose their interviewee is pretty sad.
Thats our boy!! Well done aj ❤
His real name is Oluwafemi ("The Lord loves me" in Yorùbá). Anthony is his other name. Does Anthony have a meaning BTW?
These European names have no meaning
@@ronj7658You fooI, all names have meanings especially european names wich have Christian and Pagan origins.
Meaning:Priceless one; Praiseworthy; Flourishing. Anthony is a boy's name of Latin origin. Derived from the Roman family name Antonius, it means "priceless one." Saint Anthony of Padua is the patron saint of mislaid items and is often prayed to by those seeking something they have lost.
@@ronj7658 false
yta channel ?
Well done! Nicely narrated!
Glad you liked it!🕵️♂️
This shows when you are wining people will talk about you and when you lose that’s the end , remember when Joshua lost almost all TH-cam channels stop posting about him now he is coming back they are using him for fame again
now do one about fury and his Ukranian dosser and rule britania comments
Early in his career I liked AJ. Then when all the black lives matter bollox hit he stated some comments which showed him for what he is. Don't bite the hand that feeds you. I was glad he won the other day as he has been a poor excuse of a boxer for around 3 years. Other than that I have no other feelings for AJ. I'm a Brit and I'm always on the side of other Brits!
Big Meech.
Joshua is a talented boxer with a strong work ethic. These are great positives which have been prominent in his life for a decade
Dredging up his past and highlighting a few low points since then, are journalistic tricks designed to make people question and doubt the Joshua we see today.
Don't be taken in by this kind of subversive propaganda folks. Any reformed character deserves a break and doesn't deserve to have their nose constantly rubbed in past mistakes.
Pfffft his past ain’t that “dark” he got into a couple of fights and sold a little weed, was hardly a gangster.. was actually a good kid
Joshua became quite gun shy after the loss to Ruiz and it's taken him some time to get some of his pre-loss mojo back. According to Carl Frampton, Joshua said he did not want another do or die fight after the topsy turvy Klitschsko fight. He now appears to be getting back to something resembling the fearless front foot destroyer and hopefully he can reclaim that mojo fully.
Dillian whyte,s wrong oluafemi olaseni is his middle names is first name is Anthony
Femi put ike ibeabuchi on one your cards
Are you talking of the same Ike Ibeabuchi or does Ike have a son named after him that boxes?
Any person or boxer who pulls himself out of the ghetto and betters there self in life only gets prase from me and lm sure he does alot for kids in and around his community
His name should be Usyk. He made him his byatch twice.
Fine documentary but Audley Harrison was the first Briton to win Olympic Gold at Super Heavy, not Joshua. Otherwise, very good.
That with the shattered hand is far from true..
Caught with a 9 bar of bud hardly the end of the world is it.
He was looking at a jail term. If he had been sentenced he wouldnt have become who he is. So yes...would have been the end of the world for him...and us fans
@@Boxing_Baig first real offence and caught with it in a whole rather than bagged up ready to sell. So that’s a possession charge Class C drug would of probably got tag and a community order tbh, jail would be the most extreme sentence, given them circumstances it’s not like it’s cultivation and hard to justify sending him to jail for anything longer than 4-6 months max. They make it sound like the man was a menace, most kids growing up around this get their collars felt before 18 tbh. He probably knew a few dealers got a 9 bar and was trying to middle man it.
@@nahnotatall4291 Your assuming theyre trying to say he was a menace. Thats your assumption. ...and that tells me your a wannabe bad man acting hard on the internet. Just a keyboard warrior princess jealous of another mans success. Its not impossible that he was told he could be looking at a jail term. ...and thats all this video says. So why you disecting it so much. Calm down & get back to your crayons 🤣
Was this video...just made to highlight his BLM and B XL speech...seems to be spending a lot of time on this...
I think he’s been badly advised the BLM speech was not helpful and as a result was not popular in certain communities. I don’t think they were his views and beliefs but hey hoo. Good luck at Wembley 💪
I hope AJ gets a body on his record and may that body be Fury aka the sc#m
AJ? Bottom line? He's a racist. A mad scummy racist.
Weird guy, like Dillian Whyte said.
Josua will beat you. However, this time you won't rise from the dead. As was the case with Wilder. I predict a single punch, and it will be over.
He's one ofethr most unlikeable people in boxing. There's nothing genuine about him and he's so patronising when he speaks. Im English and only watch his fights hoping he gets levelled.
you forgot the bit were he got stabbed by little d and came off the road 😂 and he never moved any big bits he got caught up selling draws smh if u know u know
What are you talking about? Is little D what I think it is ?
@@jthomas4361 nah little D is the name of the guy who stabbed him back in the day hes about 5ft 3 aswell thats y joshua stopped acting tough on the roads and his drug career was nothing he sold £10/£20 bits of weed he wasnt a kingpin 🤣
Please tell me you ain't talking about lil D from OGz🤦🏿♂️ tbh anyone can get touched doe g,
@@peterconnolly202well a jungle animal with a knife is a coward
aj was dead right at black lives matter im white and grew up poor , it was targeting rich and poor communities and how the poor are treated within these communities
People from all races and background saw AJ's comments as racist. The man is totally fake and a hypocrite. He had also sent racist DM's to Eddie Chambers in 2017
@@Anonymous-bb8mg well i dont
Telling people to decide where to buy based on the race of the business owner is blatant racism.
i know what youre saying @@sprogg11 it sounds racist but look at the crowd in the video ,its a multiciltural predominantly poor group of people , just normal people , theyre there to protest against the injust treatment of the guy that died at the hands of white police , all hes saying is spend youre money in youre own community rather than make the rich richer , it just so happens he grew up in a predominantly poor black community where you have a sense of community spirit ,that same spirit is lacking in rich areas
@@sprogg11 listen to the whole thing
FEMI is 🐈 🕳️ ducking wilder since 2017
In fairness it’s not hard to duck, slip, slide, parry etc Wilder. The guy lacks the most basic fundamentals of boxing. He’s not even a “good” boxer despite years of people encouraging him to learn. A padded resume, an amazing athlete and a freakish straight right that defies explanation. Those are what he has. They will only get you so far till you are found out in the Sweet Science. And I love the guy. I love his character and the entertainment. But enough already with the boring “ducking” rhetoric. No one is ducking anyone. Chess pieces need to line up and sometimes they just don’t.
Slowdown on weed bro
I see u got mental problems like wilder
Wilder can never be on the same Level. Never!!!! Wilder is a country Boy from Alabama with no class or cultivation
Who turned down 50million offer from Big Femi?