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ANTHONY JOSHUA has hit the jackpot before he has even fought for the world heavyweight title. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anthony Joshua claimed around £3million for beating Dillian Whyte earlier this month</td></tr>
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The Londoner is understood to have raked in around £3million for the seventh-round destruction of Dillian Whyte at London's O2 earlier this month.</div>
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Unbeaten Joshua recently signed a five-year deal with promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom that included a cut of the pay-per-view sales, and that has led directly to the big numbers many fighters can only dream of.</div>
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The 18,000 capacity O2 sold out within six hours for the bout against Whyte and pay-per-view sales have been described as "staggering".</div>
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Joshua, 26, is the most sought-after heavyweight in the division with the Klitschko brothers Wladimir and Vitali trying to persuade him to sign with their company K2 Promotions.</div>
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On the other side of the Atlantic, fight guru Al Haymon has been signing up British boxers like James DeGale and Lee Selby but he too lost out on Joshua, who has been with Hearn since he won the gold medal at the London Olympics.</div>
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In April, Joshua bids to extend his winning run to 16 when he fights again at London's O2 with the opponent yet to be named.</div>
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Joshua has already said he would welcome a rematch against Whyte who gave him his biggest test to date and came close to causing a shock before he was eventually KO'd.</div>
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Exclusive: Anthony Joshua claims £3million from Dillian Whyte fight at The 02

ANTHONY JOSHUA has hit the jackpot before he has even fought for the world heavyweight title. Anthony Joshua claimed around £3milli...

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joshua wants to steer clear of his troubled past ahead of his bout with Dillian Whyte</td></tr>
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THE only thing Anthony Joshua cared about when he first faced Dillian Whyte was staying out of prison. </div>
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The man now considered the golden boy of British heavyweight boxing, who has a conviction for drug offences, had an electronic tag on his ankle the night in 2009 when fellow Londoner Whyte became the first and only Brit to beat him inside the boxing ring.</div>
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Joshua finally gets his chance at revenge at the 02 Arena on Saturday night, while victory will also claim the vacant British heavyweight title and retain his Commonwealth belt.</div>
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Whyte has spent much of the bitter build-up calling Joshua 'scum' for his past misdemeanours - and accused him of being a 'fraud'.</div>
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But Joshua has no problem confessing that his freedom was on the line six years back when he clashed with Whyte in what was only his fourth amateur fight.</div>
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"I don't want to talk about exactly why I was on tag back then but it wasn't even possession [of drugs]," said Joshua. "But when I first started boxing, I was looking at a jail sentence so my only ambition was to be found not guilty. That was it. When I got past that and I was found not guilty I carried on boxing.</div>
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"That highlights the change in my life, even mentally. When I say these things, I'm not being rude - but this is only a fight to me, I'm just being real.</div>
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"It's the underdog mentality. That's why when he says, 'your heart will fail you' and, 'I've always had it against me' I just think, 'so have I'. Who hasn't?</div>
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"I never had any intention of being a boxer. I just kept on plugging away. I still won't say I'll be the champion. I'd love to but I'd rather get it and show you instead of talking about what I'm going to do."</div>
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In fact, 6ft 6in Joshua could have easily been waking up this morning after finishing another tough week on the building site as a brickie. But he remembers when the bright lights of Las Vegas were enough to make him turn his back on the trade.</div>
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"If I'd never walked in that gym I'd probably be brick laying - or I might have been fed up by now," he said. "At the time when I was brick laying, I had the chance to go to Las Vegas with the Finchley [boxing] team, who go every year.</div>
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"But when you're self-employed like I was, if you don't work, you lose your job. So I went to Vegas and lost my job. It was one or the other. I chose boxing."</div>
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Part-time painter and decorator Whyte, on the other hand, has revealed that fighting chose him after he had a son when he was just 13 and then became a doorman just a year later.</div>
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"It has been hard and I've had ups and downs - my first kid is 15 now and I've had to man up and provide for other young human beings from a young age," said Whyte, 27.</div>
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"A lot of guys would never have done that and it's the thought of making a better future for my children that drives me."</div>

Anthony Joshua out to put Dillian Whyte away in British heavyweight bout

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