Nickname(s) Joe Height 1.98 m (6 ft 5 in) Name Joseph Joyce Parents Phillip Joyce | Nationality Great Britain
England Sport Boxing Role Boxer Rated at Super heavyweight | |
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Born 19 September 1985 (age 39) ( 1985-09-19 ) London, England Profiles | ||
Joseph "Joe" Joyce (born 19 September 1985) is a British amateur boxer.
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Early life
Born to a Scots-born Irish father and a mother of Nigerian ancestry, Joyce grew up in London and studied at Elliottschool, based in Tooting. He took up boxing at the age of 22, injuries having curtailed his interest in track and field athletics, and joined Earlsfield ABC, based in Earlsfield, London.
Amateur career
He competed in the men's super heavyweight division at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where he won the gold medal. He also won the title at the 2015 European Games in Baku.
Joyce won the super heavyweight class at the 2012 ABA Championships and 2012 GB Amateur Boxing Championships. He won the bronze in his class at the 2013 European Amateur Boxing Championships after getting KOd by defending Russian champion Sergei Kuzmin in the semifinal. At the 2013 AIBA World Boxing Championships he was KOd again, this time by unsung Algerian Hamza Beguerni.
He had success during 2015 and 2016 in the World Series of Boxing, and in April 2016 won a gold medal at the European Olympic trials to qualify for the Olympics. On 21 August 2016 Joyce won the silver medal in the super heavyweight class at the 2016 Summer Olympics, losing in the final, on a split decision to Tony Yoka of France. It was the final medal won by Team GB at the Olympics.
Art career
Outside the ring, he is a proficient artist, having graduated with a 2:1 degree in fine arts from Middlesex University. In 2017, Joyce has displays with the Art of the Olympians.