Anthony Joshua's Coach Pictures Lennox-Like Career

British super heavyweight Anthony Joshua can have a career to rival that of Lennox Lewis, according to his coach Sean Murphy. Joshua, 21, took silver at the recent World Amateur Championships in only his second senior multi-nations tournament. The Londoner beat Olympic and world champion Roberto Cammerelle on the way.

"As long as he lives right and doesn't get carried away with what everyone's saying, he'll go to the top - he'll be the next Lennox Lewis," said Murphy to BBC Sport. 

Spectacular since he took up boxing aged 18, and he lost by just one point to home fighter Magomedrasul Medzhidov in Azerbaijan.

"I won the silver but lost the gold," Joshua told BBC Sport. "It was painful at first to know I was so close, just a point away. To bring back gold to the nation would have [made] my heart full of joy, but half an hour later I was back with the team and everybody was rejoicing. I'm happy I achieved something for the country and myself that we didn't really expect."

Inspired by the likes of Lewis, Bernard Hopkins, Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali, there have already been plenty of people quick to agree with Murphy that a glittering future awaits Joshua.

Joshua does admit, however, that the chance to compete in an Olympic Games in his home town is something that sets the pulse racing.

"It will be amazing," said the Finchley-based fighter. "Words can't describe, it means everything. "I wouldn't mind being there and being a waterboy, but to be involved with the 2012 Olympics? I'm over the moon."