{"id":396981,"date":"2026-01-08T22:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/396981\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T22:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:03:08","slug":"kamaru-usman-takes-responsibility-for-posting-anthony-joshua-phone-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/396981\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamaru Usman takes responsibility for posting Anthony Joshua phone call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former UFC welterweight champion, Kamaru Usman, is one of the few people Anthony Joshua called after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\/412196\/anthony-joshua-involved-in-major-car-accident-in-nigeria-two-dead\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last month\u2019s fatal car crash in Nigeria<\/a>. For reasons not entirely understood, someone from Usman\u2019s team recorded the private conversation, which was later posted online as part of a larger video package.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Not surprisingly, Usman got creamed for the \u201cbreach of trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Usman took responsibility for the video but did not offer an apology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cAfter seeing what\u2019s being written it\u2019s quite heartbreaking,\u201d Usman wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/usman84kg\/status\/2009252267111616558?s=12\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a>. \u201cBeing on camera that whole day in preparation for The AKO show, it completely slipped my mind that my conversation was recorded. I realized after and asked about it. I take full responsibility for not properly watching the video that was released and keeping my private conversation with my brother AJ private. SMH \u2014 big L on me. That\u2019s not something I would ever do to a friend\/ brother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fan reactions were divided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There\u2019s a chance Usman was overwhelmed with prep for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/theakoshow\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The AKO Show<\/a> and was not part of the editing process prior to the release of assets. Or maybe \u201cThe Nigerian Nightmare\u201d included the recording to showcase his close relationship with the heavyweight boxer before it blew up in his face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Only Usman knows for sure.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC welterweight champion, Kamaru Usman, is one of the few people Anthony Joshua called after last month\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[36109,49,48,641,33601,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-396981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396981","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=396981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}