{"id":383928,"date":"2026-01-01T03:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/383928\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T03:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:34:14","slug":"latest-updates-on-anthony-joshua-after-car-crash-released-from-hospital-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/383928\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest updates on Anthony Joshua after car crash, released from hospital in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua has been discharged from hospital, state officials said, after surviving a fatal car accident in Nigeria that killed two of his close friends<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Joshua was travelling on Monday with friends Sina Ghami and Latif Ayodele on a busy highway linking Lagos and Ibadan in the southwest of the country when their SUV rammed into a stationary truck.<\/p>\n

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The Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency (TRACE) in Ogun state, where the accident occurred, said preliminary investigations showed the vehicle was moving at excessive speed and had burst a tyre before the crash<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnthony Joshua was discharged from hospital late this afternoon,\u201d Lagos and Ogun state governments spokesmen said in a joint statement late Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cThough heavy hearted and full of emotion over the loss of his two close friends, he was deemed clinically fit to recuperate at home,\u201d Lagos state\u2019s spokesman Gbenga Omotoso and his Ogun counterpart Kayode Akinmade said.<\/p>\n

Both state governments have been overseeing the boxer\u2019s treatment since the crash.<\/p>\n

After leaving the hospital, the former heavyweight champion and his mother paid their respects at the funeral home where the bodies of his friends were \u201cbeing prepared for repatriation\u201d, the statement said.<\/p>\n

Nigerian police said the two victims died at the scene.<\/p>\n

Kevin Latif Ayodele (R), team mate and close friend, and S and C coach and friend Sina Ghami (L) of heavyweigh boxing champion Anthony Joshua (C) tragically passed away in today\u2019s (December 30th, 2025) car accident in Nigeria, that Anthony Joshua was injured in.Source: Supplied Source Known<\/p>\n

Joshua, 36, was admitted at Lagos\u2019s Lagoon Hospital, the statement said, contradicting earlier information by a TRACE official who gave the name of a different hospital.<\/p>\n

Joshua\u2019s family hails from the southwest Nigerian city and he is known to visit there when he is in the country.<\/p>\n

Lagos, Nigeria\u2019s bustling economic capital, throngs with visitors from across the country and diaspora each December.<\/p>\n

Photos released by the police showed a mangled wreckage of a black sports utility vehicle.<\/p>\n

In December, Joshua knocked out YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in a Netflix-backed bout in Miami.<\/p>\n

The former Olympic champion Joshua has since been linked with a fight against compatriot and fellow former world champion Tyson Fury.<\/p>\n

Joshua\u2019s last fight before the match with Paul was a fifth round knockout loss to fellow Briton Daniel Dubois in September 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua has been discharged from hospital, state officials said, after surviving a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-383928","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\/383928","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=383928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}