{"id":468813,"date":"2026-02-11T21:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/468813\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T21:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:19:13","slug":"eddie-hearn-expects-anthony-joshua-to-fight-again-says-no-guarantees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/468813\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn expects Anthony Joshua to fight again, says no guarantees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb 11, 2026, 12:28 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>Promoter Eddie Hearn has said there are no guarantees Anthony Joshua will decide to fight again &#8212; but expects the former two-time world heavyweight champion to get back in the ring when he is ready.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/47442977\/anthony-joshua-injured-car-crash-nigeria-two-killed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joshua was injured in a car crash in Nigeria<\/a> on Dec. 29 which killed his close friends Sina Ghami and Latif &#8216;Latz&#8217; Ayodele.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred weeks after he stopped YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in Miami, to stay on course to face old foe Tyson Fury in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Last month in his first public video since the incident, an emotional Joshua said he knew what he would be doing next, without giving any firm details.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Eddie Hearn has said Anthony Joshua must be allowed all the time he needs before fighting again.\u00a0Mark Robinson\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Hearn feels Joshua must be allowed all the time he needs to process the traumatic events before embarking on the next step of his own journey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think there is any guarantees he fights again, but at the same time I expect him to because it is something that he loves,&#8221; Hearn said in an interview with First Round TV.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it is something he can carry those guys with him through as well and it is something he wants to do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From a boxing sense, physically it wasn&#8217;t easy what he went through either. People probably don&#8217;t realise the extent of that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/47627804\/anthony-joshua-back-gym-car-crash-eddie-hearn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hearn: Joshua back in the gym following car crash<\/a><br \/>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/47849949\/oleksandr-usyk-relaunches-promo-company-aims-host-tournament-kyiv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Usyk relaunches promo company, hopes to host tournament in Kyiv<\/a><br \/>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/47888257\/source-wardley-defend-wbo-heavyweight-title-vs-dubois-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sources: Wardley to defend HBO heavyweight title vs. Dubois on May 9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has been training, but he is not ready yet and won&#8217;t be for a while to return to boxing training.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before this terrible incident we were geared up to fight in March and then fight Tyson Fury. Obviously, that is not happening now and I don&#8217;t know if it will ever happen right now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I think in the next few weeks and month, he may start to return and just turn the dial up a little bit more on training and see where he is at.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 11, 2026, 12:28 PM ET Promoter Eddie Hearn has said there are no guarantees Anthony Joshua will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-468813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468813","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=468813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}