Inside £20k-a-week mansion Anthony Joshua rented during training for Wladimir Klitschko fight – as he moves back to mum’s council flat
The 27-year-old's temporary home boasted a home cinema, seven bedrooms and a wine cellar
ANTHONY JOSHUA has moved back into his mum's two-bedroom ex-council flat, leaving the luxurious mansion he rented ahead of his fight with Wladimir Klitschko on the market.
The world heavyweight champion, 27, was staying at the 20k-a-week villa in St John's Wood, north-west London, before his Wembley mega-fight - and after taking a peek inside you couldn't blame him.
The mansion boasted a wine cellar, a home cinema, and seven bedrooms.
It also features a beautiful swimming pool and massive living rooms.
To rent the property for one month, you would have to fork out a whopping £86,667 - that's £1.26million a year.
But the boxing star has now gone back to his roots by heading back to his 51-year-old mum Yeta Odusanya's home in North London.
Joshua, from Watford, is set to become boxing's first billionaire with a tide of super-fights lined up over the next few years.
The champ, who is 6ft 6inch and 17-stone, came out on top last month in one of the best fights in recent British boxing history.
He knocked down Klitschko in the fifth, before being floored himself in the sixth.
The WBA, IBF and IBO champ then stopped the Ukrainian legend in the eleventh to send 90,000 fans into raptures.
The dad-of-one bought his care worker mum the flat for £174,000 after turning professional in 2013.
He was snapped outside the house yesterday afternoon, moving his stuff back in.
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Yeta does not come to watch the biggest star in Britain in his fights as she gets too nervous at ringside.
He said after the bout: "We spoke on Facetime and she said she was proud of me."
And he revealed he was going to go back to "normal living" by having a lie-in and having a catch-up with family in the post-fight press conference.
He added: "I'm a good man, I'm a family man, and I love life.
"How do I plan to celebrate? Wake up midday for once. Wake up midday and then catch up with my family.
"Normally I take a holiday, but I think this time what I'm going to do is just pop round to some of my family's house and catch up.
"Because we spend quarter of the year training, and then normally you go on holiday and then straight back into training camp.
"I don't want to do that, I want to catch up with family. And that's it. Go back to normal living."