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Ex-boxing champ Joshua discharged from hospital after fatal car crash

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British boxer Anthony Joshua was involved in a road accident on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway near Sagamu on December 29, 2025. [Screengrab]

Former world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua has been discharged from hospital, state officials said Wednesday, after surviving a car accident in Nigeria that killed two of his close friends.

Joshua was travelling on Monday with friends Sina Ghami and Latif Ayodele on a busy highway linking Lagos and Ibadan in the southwest of the country when their SUV rammed into a stationary truck. He suffered minor injuries, according to the Nigerian police.

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