{"id":470082,"date":"2026-02-12T11:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/470082\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T11:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:30:10","slug":"eddie-hearn-expects-anthony-joshua-to-fight-again-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/470082\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn ‘expects’ Anthony Joshua to fight again after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn “expects” British heavyweight Anthony Joshua to fight again following the death of two close friends – but admits there are no “guarantees”.<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old sustained minor injuries in the road traffic accident<\/a> in Nigeria on 29 December that killed Sina Ghami and Latif ‘Latz’ Ayodele.<\/p>\n

The two-time world champion returned to training in January, posting a video on social media of him working out with the message “mental strength therapy”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hearn, who has promoted Joshua since he turned professional after winning gold at the 2012 Olympics, believes he will step back inside the ropes this year.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think there are any guarantees he fights again, but at the same time I expect him to, because it is something that he loves,” Hearn said in an interview with First Round TV.<\/p>\n

“And it is something he can carry those guys with him through as well and it is something he wants to do.<\/p>\n

“From a boxing sense, physically it wasn’t easy what he went through either. People probably don’t realise the extent of that.<\/p>\n

“He has been training, but he is not ready yet and won’t be for a while to return to boxing training.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn “expects” British heavyweight Anthony Joshua to fight again following the death of two close…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-470082","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\/470082","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=470082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}