{"id":258710,"date":"2026-01-30T03:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/258710\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T03:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:53:09","slug":"anthony-joshua-speaks-on-camera-for-first-time-since-nigeria-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/258710\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua speaks on camera for first time since Nigeria crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">Joshua added that he understood what the pair had \u201cwanted to do for their families\u201d and that his goal \u201cis to continue to help them achieve their goals\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">Ayodele was the personal trainer of the former two-time unified heavyweight champion while Ghami was Joshua\u2019s strength and conditioning coach. Both died at the crash scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">In his video, Joshua gave little away about his boxing plans, but noted \u201cthe mission must go on\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt ain\u2019t about legacy, it\u2019s just about doing what is right and I know I am going to do what is right by them,\u201d he reiterated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">The accident occurred weeks after Joshua stopped YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in Miami to stay on course to face old foe Tyson Fury this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">Fury has since announced his eagerly anticipated return to the ring and is set to face Arslanbek Makhmudov on April 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">The fate of the mooted all-British battle between the two heavyweights Joshua and Fury remains unclear, with speculation the former could now retire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">But promoter Eddie Hearn has said the 36-year-old Joshua would be given all the time he needed to cope with the loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">Earlier this month, Joshua shared online footage of himself returning to the gym, hitting pads with a trainer for what he called \u201cmental strength therapy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">In the video posted Thursday, Joshua said: \u201cOne day my time will come and I\u2019m not scared either at all. It\u2019s actually comforting knowing that I\u2019ve got two brothers on the other side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019ve lost people before, but I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve lost people like that, my left and my right, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joshua added that he understood what the pair had \u201cwanted to do for their families\u201d and that his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,8791,13912,8046,31100,651,3549,1888,2082,2740,1445,50218,38862,3375,111,139,24648,69,90,3109,11165,7811,17213,213,53883,2044,4518,5977,377],"class_list":["post-258710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-anthony","tag-broken","tag-camera","tag-champions","tag-close","tag-crash","tag-first","tag-for","tag-former","tag-friends","tag-heavyweight","tag-joshua","tag-killed","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nigeria","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-public","tag-silence","tag-since","tag-speaks","tag-sports","tag-surviving","tag-time","tag-weeks","tag-which","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}