<figure id="attachment_3245635" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3245635" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-3245635" src="https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2bfc7dd2-anthony-joshua-29122025.webp" alt="" width="1600" height="1000" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3245635" class="wp-caption-text">The accident occurred just over a week after Anthony Joshua knocked out social media star Jake Paul in the sixth round of a bout in Miami. (EPA Images pic)</figcaption></figure>
LAGOS: Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua was injured in a fatal highway accident that killed two people Monday, his promoter and a Nigerian police source said.
Pictures circulating online showed a shirtless Joshua – a British national of Nigerian heritage – surrounded by what appeared to be broken window glass on the seats around him.
Joshua&#8217;s promoter Eddie Hearn told Daily Mail Sport he was on a family holiday and &#8220;awoke to the news of this incident&#8221;.
&#8220;We are trying to contact Anthony and in the meantime we don&#8217;t want to speculate on how he is but thankfully he appears OK from what I have seen in the images,&#8221; he said.
Punch newspaper said the crash occurred on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway when the car he was riding in collided with a truck.
A police source confirmed to AFP that Joshua was involved in the accident.
A witness to the crash said Joshua was travelling in a two-vehicle convoy and was seated behind his driver.
&#8220;The passenger beside the driver and the person beside Joshua died on the spot,&#8221; Adeniyi Orojo told Punch news.
Earlier this month Joshua knocked out YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in a Netflix-backed bout in Miami.
Next year, former Olympic champion Joshua is set to fight against compatriot and fellow former world champion Tyson Fury.
Joshua&#8217;s last fight prior to the match with Paul was a fifth-round knockout loss to fellow Briton Daniel Dubois in September last year.

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Ex-heavyweight champion Joshua injured in Nigeria highway crash

2 people died when the car carrying Anthony Joshua collided with a truck on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

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