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’s promoter Eddie Hearn told told Daily Mail Sport he was on a family holiday and “awoke to the news of this incident”.
“We are trying to contact Anthony and in the meantime we don’t want to speculate on how he is but thankfully he appears OK from what I have seen in the images,” he said.
Punch newspaper said the crash occurred on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway when the car he was riding in collided with a truck.
