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Anthony Joshua: 'I need to be a billionaire'

"When I first started, the aim was to become a multimillionaire. But now there are ordinary people, grandmas and granddads, who are worth millions just because of property prices. So the new school of thought is that I need to be a billionaire. Being a millionaire is good, but you have to set your sights higher. If I'm making £10 million from my next fight, my next target has to be making ten times that. And if I get to £100m-150m, why not go for the billion? I know self-made billionaires. It's hard, but it's possible."

Wladimir Klitschko's response was:

On April 29th I'm going to fight a wannabe billionaire. Fellas, how many wannabe billionaires did you "fight" in your life? I've none.

Thoughts?

I've read all of Malcolm Gladwell's books, his theory about how wanting a superior team to beat the underdog is a morally superior position was interesting and I suppose it has some basis in truth.

I think Joshua is correct to think in that way, but verbalising it will piss most people off.

He doesn't 'need' to be a billionaire. No-one does. Good luck to him though

Why not a trillionaire?

It doesn't really fit in with his "stay humble" persona.

Joshua is ambitious so I respect that, but money is a funny thing. Someone like mcgregor pulls it off cos he's so funny. Mayweather on the other hand just looks arrogant twat. I'm a little surprised by Joshua's words.

Saying that he has massive pulling power/appeal in England that I'm confident will go worldwide if he keeps winning.

There'll always be haters though

lookingaround87 wrote:Why not a trillionaire?

I'm laughing to myself about the Austin powers movie, dr evil demands:

A bizzlillion, kizzillion, wazoolion, killion, fillion dollars

I don't think even Floyd Mayweather is a billionaire.

RScarf1 wrote:I don't think even Floyd Mayweather is a billionaire.

According to Forbes he's worth $340m.

Asterix wrote:

RScarf1 wrote:I don't think even Floyd Mayweather is a billionaire.

According to Forbes he's worth $340m.

Yeah, so Joshua attaining this goal is unlikely.

Ossyrules wrote:

lookingaround87 wrote:Why not a trillionaire?

I'm laughing to myself about the Austin powers movie, dr evil demands:

A bizzlillion, kizzillion, wazoolion, killion, fillion dollars

very good

He's so humble he'd end up giving it all away anyway.

I'd be interested to know how many self-made billionaires Joshua actually knows.

In fact, I'd be interested to know if Joshua actually knows how much a billion is. He probably just thinks it's 200 million or something.

doubt it will happen anyway

Not only would Joshua have to keep winning, he'd have to endorse products and learn a lot about how to keep money. Keeping money can be even more difficult.

He isn't going to become a billionaire if he loses to Wlad.

I think it's more a throwaway comment concerning ambition as much as a serious plan to earn a billion tbh.

He does have huge pulling power though. PPV figures are always excellent. He ticks a lot of boxes as a promoter

Heavyweight - blue ribbon division

Fighting style - guarantees knockouts and therefore action/drama

Personality - very likeable geezer. Will develop a big fan base I think. Questionable if this trait is one to generate the most money. Ali said he didn't care if people wanted me to lose as long as they bought a ticket. Fighters like mayweather etc, the boxing world tune in as they want him to lose as he's a twat. Hatton has his own fan base, but outside of his own fans not many care about Hatton so much

I feel if Joshua was American it would be another box ticked for being a cash cow. There's nothing bigger in boxing than a top class American heavyweight

Ossyrules wrote:I think it's more a throwaway comment concerning ambition as much as a serious plan to earn a billion tbh.

He does have huge pulling power though. PPV figures are always excellent. He ticks a lot of boxes as a promoter

Heavyweight - blue ribbon division

Fighting style - guarantees knockouts and therefore action/drama

Personality - very likeable geezer. Will develop a big fan base I think. Questionable if this trait is one to generate the most money. Ali said he didn't care if people wanted me to lose as long as they bought a ticket. Fighters like mayweather etc, the boxing world tune in as they want him to lose as he's a twat. Hatton has his own fan base, but outside of his own fans not many care about Hatton so much

I feel if Joshua was American it would be another box ticked for being a cash cow. There's nothing bigger in boxing than a top class American heavyweight

Do you find him likeable? I really don't see it.

gp. wrote:

Ossyrules wrote:I think it's more a throwaway comment concerning ambition as much as a serious plan to earn a billion tbh.

He does have huge pulling power though. PPV figures are always excellent. He ticks a lot of boxes as a promoter

Heavyweight - blue ribbon division

Fighting style - guarantees knockouts and therefore action/drama

Personality - very likeable geezer. Will develop a big fan base I think. Questionable if this trait is one to generate the most money. Ali said he didn't care if people wanted me to lose as long as they bought a ticket. Fighters like mayweather etc, the boxing world tune in as they want him to lose as he's a twat. Hatton has his own fan base, but outside of his own fans not many care about Hatton so much

I feel if Joshua was American it would be another box ticked for being a cash cow. There's nothing bigger in boxing than a top class American heavyweight

Do you find him likeable? I really don't see it.

i don't see it either

Oiky wrote:

gp. wrote:

Ossyrules wrote:I think it's more a throwaway comment concerning ambition as much as a serious plan to earn a billion tbh.

He does have huge pulling power though. PPV figures are always excellent. He ticks a lot of boxes as a promoter

Heavyweight - blue ribbon division

Fighting style - guarantees knockouts and therefore action/drama

Personality - very likeable geezer. Will develop a big fan base I think. Questionable if this trait is one to generate the most money. Ali said he didn't care if people wanted me to lose as long as they bought a ticket. Fighters like mayweather etc, the boxing world tune in as they want him to lose as he's a twat. Hatton has his own fan base, but outside of his own fans not many care about Hatton so much

I feel if Joshua was American it would be another box ticked for being a cash cow. There's nothing bigger in boxing than a top class American heavyweight

Do you find him likeable? I really don't see it.

i don't see it either

He's that fake it's hard to fathom out whether you like him or not! In the Olympics and afterwards I thought he seemed a decent enough guy but he's like a big media robot now.

Reminds of the episode of Father Ted where they train Jack to say a few phrases for the Bishops coming. 'That would be an ecumenical matter'

Snore.

I don't mind Joshua at all really. Comes across well most of the time, stuff like "league of their own" etc he's seems ok geezer.

I think casuals will take to him as a personality, so he'll pick up fan base and PPV numbers imo

Ossyrules wrote:I don't mind Joshua at all really. Comes across well most of the time, stuff like "league of their own" etc he's seems ok geezer.

I think casuals will take to him as a personality, so he'll pick up fan base and PPV numbers imo

Errr, they already have - in their droves, the majority of his fans are casuals.

jamesmcdonnell wrote:

Ossyrules wrote:I don't mind Joshua at all really. Comes across well most of the time, stuff like "league of their own" etc he's seems ok geezer.

I think casuals will take to him as a personality, so he'll pick up fan base and PPV numbers imo

Errr, they already have - in their droves, the majority of his fans are casuals.

Casuals shouldn't be derogatory either

People go on how everyone used to know who the heavyweight champion of the world is, the worlds greatest title in sport

Well not everyone is a hardcore boxing fan, so the cross over appeal to casuals is good for interest

Ossyrules wrote:I don't mind Joshua at all really. Comes across well most of the time, stuff like "league of their own" etc he's seems ok geezer.

I think casuals will take to him as a personality, so he'll pick up fan base and PPV numbers imo

I don't dislike him. I just don't see anything particularly winning about his personality.