Former world champion has a serious accident
That’s probably why Joshua survived the fatal crash
Updated 12/30/2025 – 7:51 a.mReading time: 2 minutes
Former British heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua is injured in a road accident in Nigeria. Now further details are known.
Boxing star Anthony Joshua has been slightly injured in a serious car accident in Nigeria that claimed two lives. The dead were team members and friends of the former world champion, said Joshua’s promoter, the Matchroom Boxing agency. Joshua “sustained injuries in the accident and was taken to hospital for treatment. There he will continue to be monitored,” the statement said.
According to Olusegun Ogungbemide, deputy marshal of the Nigerian Road Safety Authority (FRSC), the car carrying Joshua was speeding. The driver lost control of the car and drove into a parked truck. “The main causes of the accident were excessive speed and improper overtaking,” Ogungbemide said.
As an eyewitness told the BBC, Joshua was apparently unconscious. The 36-year-old was in the badly damaged vehicle for ten minutes after the accident before bystanders spoke to him and helped him regain consciousness. The exact circumstances of the accident remain under investigation. Videos on the Internet show Joshua being lifted out of a badly damaged car with his bare torso and his face contorted in pain.
Local police said in a statement that the luxury car in which Joshua was riding “was believed to have exceeded the legal speed limit on the relevant stretch of road, lost control during an overtaking maneuver and crashed into a truck parked on the side of the road.” The accident is said to have occurred on a highway in Makun, Nigeria. Joshua’s parents are from Nigeria.
At the time of the accident, Joshua was sitting in the back seat of the car behind the driver, and his two fatally wounded companions were on the right side of the vehicle. So in the passenger seat and the space behind it in the back seat. So Joshua’s seat may have saved his life.