{"id":416633,"date":"2026-01-16T09:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/416633\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:59:10","slug":"anthony-joshua-returns-to-gym-following-car-crash-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/416633\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua returns to gym following car crash in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British heavyweight Anthony Joshua has returned to the gym following the recent car crash which killed two of his close friends and team members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former world heavyweight champion, 36, sustained minor injuries in the incident in Nigeria on 29 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sina Ghami and Latif &#8216;Latz&#8217; Ayodele died when their vehicle, in which Joshua was also a passenger, collided with a stationary truck on a major road near Lagos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nineteen days after the crash, Joshua has posted a video on Snapchat showing him hitting pads and working out, with the message &#8220;mental strength therapy&#8221; at the bottom of one clip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He beat Jake Paul in Miami on 19 December, 10 days before the crash occurred while he was on holiday in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last week he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/ckgl889pl1eo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posted a tribute<\/a> to his strength and conditioning coach Ghami and trainer Ayodele on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTQFHo5DMuV\/?hl=en\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I didn&#8217;t even realise how special they are,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;I&#8217;ll just be walking with them and cracking jokes with them, not even knowing God kept me in the presence of great men.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;100% it&#8217;s tough for me, but I know it&#8217;s even tougher for their parents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British heavyweight Anthony Joshua has returned to the gym following the recent car crash which killed two of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-416633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416633","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=416633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}