Fast-tracked heavyweight Joshua ready to live up hype (The Associated Press)

Anthony Joshua was making strides in his fledgling professional boxing career when he was invited to Austria to spar with then-world heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko for 10 days in the summer of 2014. ”I haven’t seen an athlete as athletic, as big, as fast, as talented as Anthony,” Klitschko said of the 6-foot-7 (2.01-meter) Joshua, who at that time had won his first seven professional fights. Less than two years later, Joshua’s time has arrived.