Anthony Joshua

For those who don’t know Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua is a British Nigerian boxer who was born and raised in the United Kingdom and he’s also very proud of his Nigerian heritage given both of his parents are from Nigeria. He’s also visited Nigeria a few times in recent years to visit his family and work on some community projects. He’s recently been gaining crazy world wide buzz after defeating Jake Paul which has obviously led to a huge amount of online discussion about him. He did promo for the fight with the British flag but he came out on fight day with the Nigerian flag.

Him being British doesn’t invalidate his Nigerian passport and his Nigerian identity but it seems like a lot of Nigerians in Nigeria don’t understand this and they are trying to claim him so hard. I’ve seen so many British/English people celebrating AJ, a British hero, and calling him British which he obviously is but I’ve noticed a lot of Nigerians comments essentially clapping back trying to disavow this and claim he’s Nigerian instead. Y’all can see by the screenshots. Nigerians can claim him and celebrate him too but it to me it just comes off as cringe or forced when they keep trying to disavow AJ’s British identity by basically claiming he’s Nigerian instead in instances when someone calls him British. Anyways, let me know what y’all think.