Eddie Hearn, the promoter of Unified heavyweight boxing champion, Anthony Joshua, has revealed that the boxer is unhappy with the criticism he has received over his speech at a Black Lives Matter protest in which he called for black people to boycott white-owned businesses.
“I spoke to him for an hour this morning, I’ve known Anthony Joshua for eight years. I know him inside out. It hurts when some of the accusations have been flying his way.
“This is a good individual, with good morals, a good person, that wants to change the world for the better.
“I think one of the positives that have come out of his appearance is conversation, is talking points, is change and that is very important to him and it should be important to all of us.
“He read someone’s speech out, which he may have phrased differently if he had read it himself,” he told British publication, Sky News.
Anthony had on Tuesday defended the speech which was delivered in his hometown of Watford, United Kingdom on Saturday.
“… If you think I am racist, go f**k yourself… Shops arent’t the issue. Before you talk shit you better boycott racism. I said what I said and will act to make a change…,” he wrote on Twitter.
