ANTHONY JOSHUA plans to disappear from planet Earth when he’s finished his reign as world champion.
The Watford heavyweight is training in Sheffield ahead of his heavyweight clash with Oleksandr Usyk next Saturday.
And the 31-year-old already appears to have a retirement plan in place when his boxing career is finished.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, he joked: “Once boxing is done everything gets deactivated. No one will ever see me again. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos — come on, we are going to Mars, baby.
“When I finish, I am going to go to the Amazon with an uncontacted tribe and just sit back. Frog venom, eating plants, all of it.”
AJ continued: “A lot of us fighters came into the game and had aspirations, maybe to buy their mother a home, fought guys and the next thing they are stuck in this business. It is difficult.
“I never thought I would kind of grow to be in this position. It comes with pressure because honestly, I never yearned for the fame or attention. I just dedicated myself to the sport.”
Joshua burst onto the scene after winning gold at London 2012 and has been in the public eye ever since.
The hysteria surrounding his proposed match up with rival Tyson Fury seems to have taken its toll AJ – who just wants to concentrate on fighting.
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“If I could just focus on the sport, I would do it for a long amount of time. But it is everything else that comes with it that tends to steer people away. They say fame and fortune and attention is a gift, but it can also be a curse.
“As I said, if it is just purely boxing, let’s go as long as we can, but everything else that comes with it, that is why some people just want to distance from that world when it is all done, and go back to their original entrance.
“Boxers, we are pure. We just wanted to elevate ourselves and we found ourselves addicted to progress in our sport.
“And then it became about being a role model, standing up for certain things, and we make mistakes, we get things right. It is an interesting time to be a sportsman.
“When I entered the game, it was for the love of it. It was all pure and you always want to chase yourself back to why you started, that pure element of why I wanted to be involved in boxing. I just want to fight.”
And on a potential fight with Fury, AJ added: “I know what people are saying about boxing politics, but I’ll promise before the end of my career I will have done everything in my power to fight Tyson Fury.
“Me and Fury is streets, two warriors, two fighters who have come from the amateur system in the UK, and have taken the world by storm.
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
