Former heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua seems on as he will get on a automobile following a automobile accident, close to Sagamu, Ogun State, Nigeria on December 29, 2025. — Reuters
LAGOS: Former world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua has been discharged from hospital, state officers mentioned Wednesday, after surviving a automobile accident in Nigeria that killed two of his shut mates.
Joshua was travelling on Monday with mates Sina Ghami and Latif Ayodele on a busy freeway linking Lagos and Ibadan within the southwest of the nation when their SUV rammed right into a stationary truck.
He suffered minor accidents, in accordance with the Nigerian police.
Preliminary investigations confirmed the automobile was shifting at extreme velocity and had burst a tyre earlier than the crash, mentioned the Site visitors Compliance and Enforcement Company (TRACE) in Ogun state, the place the accident occurred.
“Anthony Joshua was discharged from hospital late this afternoon”, spokesmen for Lagos and Ogun state governments mentioned in a joint assertion late Wednesday evening.
“Though heavy-hearted and full of emotion over the loss of his two close friends, he was deemed clinically fit to recuperate at home,” Lagos state’s spokesman Gbenga Omotoso and his Ogun counterpart Kayode Akinmade mentioned.
Anthony Joshua with Kevin Latif Ayodele (left) and Sina Ghami (proper). — Foxsports
Each state governments have been overseeing the two-time heavyweight boxing world champion’s therapy because the crash on Monday.
After leaving the hospital, Joshua and his mom paid their respects on the funeral house the place the our bodies of his mates had been “being prepared for repatriation”, learn the assertion.
Nigerian police mentioned the 2 victims died on the scene.
Mangled wreckage
Ghami was Joshua’s longtime power and conditioning coach, whereas Ayodele was his private coach, in accordance with British media.
Joshua, 36, was admitted at Lagos’s Lagoon Hospital, the joint-statement mentioned, contradicting earlier data by a TRACE official who gave the title of a distinct hospital.
The boxer, a British nationwide whose household hails from southwest Nigeria, is thought to go to the world when he’s within the nation.
Lagos, Nigeria’s bustling financial capital, throngs with guests from throughout the nation and diaspora every December.
Images launched by the police confirmed the mangled wreckage of a black sports activities utility automobile.
In December, Joshua knocked out YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in a Netflix-backed bout in Miami.
The previous Olympic champion Joshua has since been linked with a struggle in opposition to compatriot and fellow former world champion Tyson Fury.
Joshua’s final struggle earlier than the match with Paul was a fifth-round knockout loss to fellow Briton Daniel Dubois in September 2024.
