{"id":21102,"date":"2026-02-12T08:57:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=21102"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:57:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:57:27","slug":"eddie-hearn-expects-anthony-joshua-to-fight-again-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=21102","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn &#8216;expects&#8217; Anthony Joshua to fight again after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn &#8220;expects&#8221; British heavyweight Anthony Joshua to fight again following the death of two close friends &#8211; but admits there are no &#8220;guarantees&#8221;.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 36-year-old sustained minor injuries in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c8989e1wnj2o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">road traffic accident<\/a> in Nigeria on 29 December that killed Sina Ghami and Latif &#8216;Latz&#8217; Ayodele.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two-time world champion returned to training in January, posting a video on social media of him working out with the message <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/ce3ej719j0jo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">&#8220;mental strength therapy&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hearn, who has promoted Joshua since he turned professional after winning gold at the 2012 Olympics, believes he will step back inside the ropes this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think there are any guarantees he fights again, but at the same time I expect him to, because it is something that he loves,&#8221; Hearn said in an interview with First Round TV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And it is something he can carry those guys with him through as well and it is something he wants to do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;From a boxing sense, physically it wasn&#8217;t easy what he went through either. People probably don&#8217;t realise the extent of that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He has been training, but he is not ready yet and won&#8217;t be for a while to return to boxing training.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Eddie #Hearn #expects #Anthony #Joshua #fight #crash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}