{"id":381880,"date":"2026-01-01T17:42:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T17:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/381880\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T17:42:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T17:42:04","slug":"anthony-joshua-initially-staying-in-nigeria-to-recuperate-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/381880\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua initially staying in Nigeria to recuperate after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) \u2014 British boxer Anthony Joshua is initially staying in Nigeria as he recuperates from injuries sustained after a deadly crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A vehicle carrying the former heavyweight champion and two of his associates crashed into a stationary truck on Monday on a major thoroughfare, the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, which links Ogun state to Lagos. The two associates, Sina Ghami and Latif \u201cLatz\u201d Ayodele, were killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Joshua was released from a Lagos hospital on Wednesday afternoon, and he paid his respects to his deceased friends at the morgue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His promoter, Matchroom Boxing, told The Associated Press on Thursday: \u201cAs reported, Anthony was released from hospital last night and will remain in Nigeria over the coming days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Joshua has family roots in Nigeria and he briefly attended boarding school there as a child. He also holds Nigerian nationality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Lagos state commissioner for information, Gbenga Omotoso, said Wednesday that Joshua had been discharged after being deemed clinically fit to recuperate from \u201chome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ghami was Joshua\u2019s strength and conditioning coach while Ayodele was a trainer. Just hours before the crash, Joshua and Ayodele posted clips on social media playing table tennis together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP Sports Writer Steve Douglas in Manchester, England, contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP sports: https:\/\/apnews.com\/sports<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ope Adetayo, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) \u2014 British boxer Anthony Joshua is initially staying in Nigeria as he recuperates from injuries&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,77,82],"class_list":["post-381880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-international","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}