Heavy Weight champion Anthony Joshua has moved back into his mother’s two-bed ex-council flat despite earning an estimated £15million from defeating Wladimir Klitschko.
The 27-year-old boxer was living in a grand palladian villa in affluent St John’s Wood, rented as a haven so he could focus on the biggest fight of his life.
After defeating Ukrainian Klitschko on an extraordinary night at Wembley last month experts said that Mr Joshua could soon be the world’s first billionaire boxer.
But despite the riches on offer the star is back living with his mother Yeta Odusanya, 51, and his baby son after several gruelling months away from home.
The father-of-one bought her the former council flat in North London for £174,000 after turning professional in 2013, and was pictured moving back in Thursday.
During a round of press interviews after beating Klitschko, Joshua smiled fondly as he spoke of the moment his care worker mother – who he banned from watching the fight ringside – told him she was proud of his incredible triumph in front of 90,000 spectators at Wembley.
For the past decade, he has been in an on/off relationship with the mother of his child, former school friend Nicole Osbourne, who he bought a £500,000 flat not far from his home.
Though the 6ft 6in and 17 stone star is currently single, there is however one woman that will come before any others – his mother.
He has previously credited the close-relationship with Mrs Odusanya as being key to his rapid rise from amateur to becoming a boxing superstar – having now claimed the WBA, IBF, and IBO heavyweight titles.
But he is so fiercely protective that since winning Olympic gold at London 2012 he has not let her watch his fights, be it live or even on TV.
Mrs Odusanya was asked if she was proud of him last month and she simply gave double thumbs up and a big grin before climbing into the £80,000 white Range Rover he had bought her.
Joshua had said revealed that all he wanted to do following the fight was to go back to ‘normal living’ by having a lie-in and catching up with family members.
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