A Year That Refused to Let Up<\/p>\n
And here, as the hours sift away towards the new year, people are still stunned over the terrible car accident Anthony Joshua and two of his very good friends were a victim of in Nigeria earlier this week, with Sina Ghami and Latif Ayodele sadly losing their lives. It\u2019s only by sheer luck that AJ did not also lose his life.<\/p>\n
So, no wonder we find ourselves hoping for a far different, less tragic 2026. This of course may be a poor way to look back at 2025, as plenty of good and great things did happen over the course of the past 12 months. But the pain so many people felt during moments of time in 2025 was incalculable.<\/p>\n
Remembering the Names That Shaped the Sport<\/p>\n
The loss of \u201cBig George\u201d was especially hard, as was the death of \u201cHitman\u201d Hatton. Both were enormously popular, indeed beloved fighters and personalities, and both men did a heck of a lot of good work outside of the ring, the two former kings donating plenty to charities, with Hatton also selflessly giving some of his time to help other people suffering from mental health issues such as the depression that ultimately saw the British legend take his own life by hanging.<\/p>\n
\u201cCamden Buzzsaw\u201d Qawi was also a much loved ring warrior, as was \u201cMutt\u201d Greg Haugen. Dwight, who might just have played his part in the single greatest cruiserweight battle of all time, was 72 when he passed, while Haugen, one of the most colourful and also toughest fighters seen in the modern era, was just 64 when he lost his battle with cancer.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s wishing Anthony Joshua a full recovery, whether he wishes to fight again or not, this far down the list of important things in Joshua\u2019s life right now, and here\u2019s wishing the entire boxing world a calmer, kinder 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Year That Refused to Let Up And here, as the hours sift away towards the new year,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-383369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383369","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=383369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}