{"id":768151,"date":"2026-06-29T04:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T04:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/768151\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T04:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T04:44:16","slug":"unbelievable-anthony-joshua-in-a-better-place-than-hes-ever-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/768151\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Unbelievable&#8217; Anthony Joshua &#8216;in a better place than he&#8217;s ever been&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Asked by BoxingScene whether he had noticed changes in his friend as he heads into what is surely the final phase of the 36-year-old\u2019s professional career, Hearn said: \u201cI think it would be very difficult\u2026 I mean, \u2018Josh\u2019 is quite a private guy, to be honest with you. We\u2019re close, but I don\u2019t see anybody ever having that kind of conversation with him because he\u2019s a very proud man. Sometimes that can be, you know, not the right thing to do [bottling up emotions]. But \u2018Josh\u2019 is the kind of guy where I know when we talk about men\u2019s mental health and stuff like this, people won\u2019t be necessarily an advocate of this strategy, I\u2019m actually an advocate of this strategy in that I\u2019m the same, where it\u2019s like, \u2018this is my fight, right? I can control it.\u2019 You know, \u2018it\u2019s on me.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asked by BoxingScene whether he had noticed changes in his friend as he heads into what is surely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[5276,703,711,710,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-768151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768151","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=768151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}