{"id":378756,"date":"2025-12-29T18:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/378756\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T18:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:48:08","slug":"anthony-joshua-injured-in-nigeria-car-crash-with-two-others-dead-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/378756\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua injured in Nigeria car crash, with two others dead &#8211; latest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua has always been proud of his Nigerian heritagepublished at 15:30 GMT<\/p>\n<p>15:30 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\">Makuochi Okafor<br \/>Reporting from Lagos, Nigeria<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joshua during a visit to Nigeria in 2019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/c6ab81b9-a2b3-4f3a-8af5-5ba56fcfef18.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1993\" height=\"1121\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua was born in Watford,<br \/>\nEngland, but has often spoken proudly about his Nigerian heritage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\nThe Joshua family is well known in Sagamu, in south-west Nigeria, and traces<br \/>\nits ancestry there across several generations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His great-grandfather, Daniel Adebambo Joshua, was a wealthy<br \/>\nlandowner and merchant, who is believed to have taken the Joshua surname after<br \/>\nconverting to Christianity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of the clearest signs of Joshua&#8217;s pride in his heritage is a tattoo of the African<br \/>\ncontinent on his right shoulder, with Nigeria clearly outlined. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During his fights, the Nigerian flag is regularly displayed<br \/>\nalongside the Union Jack in the ring, including after his victory against Jake Paul<br \/>\nearlier in the month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Ogun, where Joshua is a sports ambassador, there are plans to build a new indoor boxing venue named after the former heavyweight world champion. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joshua in the ring with Jake Paul with his Nigeria tattoo visible on his right shoulder\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bb182ed6-af82-4ef1-abb3-9c204db558b2.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"929\" height=\"523\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joshua has always been proud of his Nigerian heritagepublished at 15:30 GMT 15:30 GMT Makuochi OkaforReporting from Lagos,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-378756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}