{"id":401739,"date":"2026-01-11T03:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T03:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401739\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T03:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T03:01:21","slug":"anthony-joshua-releases-emotional-first-statement-after-losing-brothers-in-nigeria-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401739\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua releases emotional first statement after losing \u2018brothers\u2019 in Nigeria car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Anthony Joshua has released his first statement since being a passenger in a car crash that killed two of his close friends in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In late December, Joshua suffered minor injuries in the crash, while Sina Ghami and Latif Ayodele, members of Joshua\u2019s team and close confidants, were killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Thursday, Joshua released a statement paying tribute to Ghami and Ayodele, while also thanking the boxing community for their support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThank you for all the love and care you have shown my brothers,\u201dJoshua wrote on Instagram. \u201cI didn\u2019t even realise how special they are. I\u2019ll 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=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201c100% it\u2019s tough for me, but I know it\u2019s even tougher for their parents. I have a strong mind, and I believe God knows their hearts. May God have mercy on my brothers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The accident occurred days after Joshua knocked out Jake Paul in their December boxing match in Miami. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/ckgl889pl1eo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>, Joshua was on his way to visit relatives to celebrate the new year when the incident happened. The report also stated that the driver, 46-year-old Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode was charged in court, including charges for causing death by dangerous driving, according to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua has released his first statement since being a passenger in a car crash that killed two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,701,82],"class_list":["post-401739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-latest-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401739","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=401739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}