{"id":81752,"date":"2026-01-16T21:46:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81752"},"modified":"2026-01-16T21:46:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:46:55","slug":"anthony-joshua-returns-to-gym-weeks-after-fatal-lagos-ibadan-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/16\/anthony-joshua-returns-to-gym-weeks-after-fatal-lagos-ibadan-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua Returns to Gym Weeks After Fatal Lagos-Ibadan Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former heavyweight boxing champion, Anthony Joshua, has returned to training weeks after a fatal car crash that claimed the lives of two of his close friends.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred on December 29, 2025, at the Makun area along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, leaving the boxer visibly shaken.<\/p>\n<p>A video shared on social media on Friday showed Joshua back in the gym, engaging in light workouts, including riding an exercise bike and spending time around a swimming pool.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua also posted a clip on his Snapchat story showing the elapsed time on a cardio machine, captioned \u201cFIGHTERS,\u201d which fans have interpreted as a subtle signal of his gradual return to focus and recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Former heavyweight boxing champion, Anthony Joshua, has returned to training weeks after a fatal car crash that claimed the lives of two of his close friends. The accident occurred on December 29, 2025, at the Makun area along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, leaving the boxer visibly shaken. A video shared on social media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81754,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81752\/revisions\/81754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}