{"id":345950,"date":"2026-01-01T06:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T06:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/345950\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T06:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T06:23:11","slug":"boxer-anthony-joshua-released-from-hospital-after-injuries-from-car-crash-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/345950\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxer Anthony Joshua Released from Hospital After Injuries from Car Crash in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Former two-time heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua has been released from the hospital after suffering injuries in a car crash that killed two people in Nigeria earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Per the <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/47466722\/ex-champ-anthony-joshua-released-hospital-car-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Associated Press<\/a>, Joshua was discharged on Wednesday after being &#8220;deemed clinically fit to recuperate from &#8216;home.'&#8221; According to the Associated Press, Joshua was under &#8220;observation&#8221; at Lagoon Hospital in Lagos after sustaining minor injuries in the accident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;Anthony and his mother were at the funeral home in Lagos this afternoon to pay their final respects to his two departed friends as they were being prepared for repatriation scheduled for later this evening,&#8221; Lagos state commissioner for information, Gbenga Omotoso, wrote on social media, per the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">CNN&#8217;s\u00a0<a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/12\/29\/africa\/anthony-joshua-boxer-car-crash-nigeria-intl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Nimi Princewill<\/a> reported Monday that Joshua had been involved in a car crash on a busy stretch of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, between Ogun and Lagos. The British boxer is of Nigerian descent and has family ties in Ogun. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The two people killed in the crash were Sina Ghami, Joshua&#8217;s strength and conditioning coach, and Latif Ayodele, a trainer, according to the AP. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Earlier this month, Joshua <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25333691-jake-paul-vs-anthony-joshua-winners-and-losers-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">defeated<\/a> Jake Paul in the sixth round via knockout in Miami. The 36-year-old has a career record of 29-4 with 26 knockouts and is a former Olympic gold medalist. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former two-time heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua has been released from the hospital after suffering injuries in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-345950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}