{"id":789024,"date":"2026-10-01T22:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T22:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789024\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T22:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T22:56:07","slug":"anthony-joshua-interview-i-did-not-write-black-lives-matter-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789024\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua interview: I did not write Black Lives Matter speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, he says that he did not actually write the speech himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think people took it in the wrong context,\u201d Joshua explains. \u201cIt could come across as light versus dark and I was presented in a dark fashion, basically saying \u2018divide people\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the time, in the park, I definitely thought what happened to George Floyd was wrong. I joined the rally and, at the time, a lot was expected of me. I read a speech that was written by somebody else and, as I was reading it, I was realising what I was saying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fury captioned the video with the sarcastic words \u201cThis is the man who loves England\u201d, and then pointed out that Joshua recently changed his corporate address to the tax haven of Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>Before a fight that has been subtitled <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/anthony-joshua-vs-tyson-fury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Battle of Britain\u201d<\/a>, such attacks carry a certain resonance. Yet Joshua insists that he will not be responding in kind. Or, at least, that he maintains a higher moral standard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of these things are used to try to demonise your character, to a degree,\u201d he muses. \u201cAnd in boxing it\u2019s an open playing field, you can do and say whatever you want. He is able to and I could do the same to him. But he just chose to go as low as that. So be it. I will take it with a pinch of salt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019ll be trying to get under my skin, 100 per cent. I need to be stoic and calm. It\u2019s nothing personal. I know what sort of person he is. It doesn\u2019t matter what he says. I won\u2019t be friendly because he\u2019s friendly or rude because he\u2019s rude. I will be stoic in my approach because I know that this is a fight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now, he says that he did not actually write the speech himself. \u201cI think people took it in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[6565,59647,2560,217,101,5438,6901,56,54,55,157732],"class_list":["post-789024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-anthony-joshua-vs-tyson-fury","tag-boxing","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-tyson-fury","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}