Thursday 25 July 2013 14:15, UK
Olympic gold medallist Anthony Joshua has quit the Great Britain amateur boxing programme to turn professional.
Great Britain chiefs had harboured the increasingly slim hope that Joshua would elect to stay amateur and sign up instead for the new APB series run by world governing body AIBA. But the recent axing of the British Lionhearts franchise from the World Series of Boxing effectively ended any possibility of him remaining in the amateur ranks. Furthermore, the Amateur Boxing Association of England is currently under a provisional suspension by AIBA, leaving English boxers' future participation in major tournaments in doubt.
