Boxer Anthony Joshua, 34, says he has not found a valid reason to leave his mother or marry.

British boxer with Nigerian background, Anthony Joshua has revealed why he still lives with his mother at the age of 34, insisting that any future lover will have trouble convincing him to move.

Joshua, who still lives in his mother’s two-bedroom house insisted that despite many seeing that at his age and considering the great success he has achieved so far in boxing, he should be an independent man with his own family, for him he has not yet enough reason or inducement enough to motivate him to leave his mother and move to his house.

Joshua moved back into his mother’s two-bedroom ex-council flat in 2017 after earning an estimated £15million equivalent to ksh 2.7 Billion from defeating Wladimir Klitschko.

The British boxer sat down with BBC journalist Louis Theroux to discuss his close relationship with his family and warned future girlfriends they will have to compete with his mother, Yeta Odusanya for his attention.

“I still live with my mother,” the two-time world champion told the BBC. “In our culture, we grew up in our own family home, we help our parents.”

‘Why will I move and leave my mother alone, for some girl? Family is the most important thing.’

As a precaution, Joshua said that any beautiful woman who will be lucky enough to marry him should prepare psychologically that he will not only marry Joshua but will marry his whole family.

‘When a girl comes to me as my wife, she is not only marrying me, she is marrying my family.’

The boxing star, who is not in public in a relationship, admitted he likes to keep his personal life private because he cannot live up to people’s expectations.

He continued: ‘‘Are we going to dissect everything I say and use it as a narrative to create a story? That’s why I keep myself to myself.”

‘You put all this pressure on yourself to come and be this big star and be perfect. I’m telling you, they’ll pull you down. The higher you are, the bigger the drop.’’

Joshua was previously in an on-off relationship with the mother of his child, former school friend Nicole Osbourne.

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