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Anthony Joshua injured in fatal car crash
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Boxing champion Anthony Joshua was amongst these injured in a deadly automobile crash in Nigeria on Monday, officers stated.
Joshua was within the backseat of a car touring alongside the Ogun-Lagos Expressway when the crash, which killed two others, occurred, based on a number of studies. Nigerian officers stated Joshua suffered minor accidents and was in any other case “high-quality.”
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Anthony Joshua fights Jake Paul in a heavyweight boxing bout at Kaseya Heart on December 19, 2025. (Sam Navarro/Imagn Photos)
“Joshua was sitting behind the motive force, with one other individual subsequent to him,” an eyewitness instructed Nigeria The punch. “There was additionally a passenger sitting subsequent to the motive force, making there 4 occupants within the Lexus that crashed. His safety officer was within the car behind them earlier than the crash.”
Lanre Ogunwalo, Ogun State Police Commissioner told ESPN {that a} tire on Joshua’s car “burst”, inflicting his driver to crash right into a stationary truck parked alongside the highway.
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Anthony Joshua seems on throughout a press convention saying his heavyweight boxing match in opposition to Jake Paul at Kaseya Heart on November 21, 2025. (Sam Navarro/Imagn Photos)
Joshua is the son of British Nigerian mother and father. He hung out at a Nigerian boarding faculty when he was youthful, however returned to Britain after his mother and father divorced.
He took half in a spectacle in opposition to Jake Paul earlier this month. He knocked out Paul of their struggle and picked up the twenty ninth win of his skilled profession.
Joshua is a three-time heavyweight champion. He has held the WBA Tremendous Heavyweight Championship, the IBF Heavyweight Championship and the WBO Heavyweight Championship. He misplaced his titles in opposition to Oleksandr Usyk in September 2021.
Anthony Joshua throughout his struggle in opposition to Jake Paul on December 19, 2025. (REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photograph)
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It’s unclear when Joshua will return to the ring.
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