Can Joshua fight in the US, with past crimes?

A pretty big consideration that I don't imagine has been overlooked by his team, and perhaps I've missed that he's already been to the US to watch fights? but I know people have trouble getting visas it they've been done for the likes of drug dealing and assaul. Although, i suppose they've had enough money to be get a haymon fighter with a belt to do a first defence of it away from home, so they've probs got it bought.

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Kezzer

Joshua has already been to the USA this year, why wouldn’t he be able to fight ��

8y ago

TheCleaner

reviving this thread because of seeing some of the thread about stevenson's troubles getting a work visa to fight in the US with his past crimes. Could this be one of the sticking points on the wilder fight getting sorted...

8y ago

TheCleaner

From the article http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/may/26/anthony-joshua-boxing-prison-heavyweight-greatness "As we discuss his two other defeats as an amateur, Joshua selects his second loss at the European Championships, also in 2011, as a way to understand his troubled background. “That was when I had my one court case,” he says, remembering how he had been caught in possession of cannabis and charged wrongly with an intent to supply. “They had banned me from all boxing internationally and domestically for my club. I thought I’m done with boxing. So I went back to Watford and started hanging around with my mates. But that’s when GB Boxing called me up and asked if I want to go to the Europeans. They said: ‘We’re still looking into your case …’ So I had a week’s training and then lost in the quarter-finals. “It was a turning point. Before the world championships I said: ‘Man, I have to change. I have an opportunity with boxing that I believe in. I am going to focus all my energies in boxing.’ I was 21 and I’d had my share of problems. Another court case actually got me into boxing. I was facing a long sentence … and when I beat that I decided to start boxing.” Was this earlier case also cannabis-related? “No,” Joshua says. “It was fighting and other crazy stuff. I was actually on remand, when you’re in jail waiting for your sentence. There are idiots inside and this is when you realise what you are dealing with in prison. I was on remand in Reading for two weeks. Once you’re there it’s 50-50 because you’ve been found guilty, so I was preparing myself for the worst. It could have been 10 years. I would’ve been there until I was 28 because I was 18 at the time. So I would have still been there right now …”" I saw Joshua win the ABAs in 2010 so that cannabis charge was way after he started boxing, he was an adult, not a juvenile, and he has been in prison, on remand though. I'm guessing there some kind of pardon for people with MBE's anyway though

10y ago

LacedUp

Lol of course he can. He was never even in prison :lol1: He did community service ffs.

10y ago

HughJass

I should think so,his crimes were as a juvenile.It's not as if he's been in trouble since taking up boxing.He's represented his country and won a gold medal at the Olympics and is a huge role model for millions of kids.Plus he's also an M.B.E lol

10y ago

denium

Why does Joshua need to fight in the US? The UK is the new home of HW boxing and AJ is the biggest cash cow in the division. He could fight a bouncer and still sell out the O2.

10y ago

stellen

If mike tyson can rape a woman and still be allowed to fight in the UK, im sure joshua can get a permit to fight in america. We let yours in, you let ours in.

10y ago