{"id":221408,"date":"2026-01-01T09:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/221408\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T09:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:02:07","slug":"joshua-leaves-nigerian-hospital-following-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/221408\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua leaves Nigerian hospital following crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua has been discharged from hospital, state officials said, after he was injured in a car crash in Nigeria that killed two of his close friends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/boxing\/2025\/1229\/1550816-joshua-injured-in-fatal-car-crash-in-nigeria-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joshua was travelling on Monday with friends Sina Ghami and Latif Ayodele on a busy highway linking Lagos and Ibadan in the southwest of the country when their SUV struck a stationary truck<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency (TRACE) in Ogun state, where the incident occurred, said preliminary investigations showed the vehicle was moving at excessive speed and had burst a tyre before the crash.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving the hospital, the former heavyweight champion and his mother paid their respects at the funeral home where the bodies of his friends were &#8220;being prepared for repatriation&#8221;, a statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian police said the two victims died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua&#8217;s family hails from the southwest Nigerian city and he is known to visit there when he is in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Photos released by the police showed the wreckage of a black sports utility vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Joshua knocked out YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in a Netflix-backed bout in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua has since been linked with a fight against compatriot and fellow former world champion Tyson Fury.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua&#8217;s last fight before the match with Paul was a fifth round knockout loss to fellow Briton Daniel Dubois in September 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua has been discharged from hospital, state officials said, after he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-221408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}