Anthony Joshua has returned to boxing training just 17 days after he was involved in a car crash that cost two of his best friends their lives in Nigeria.
The funerals of Joshua’s strength coach Sina Ghami and his personal trainer Latif ‘Latz’ Ayodele were due to take place on Sunday 4 January at London Central Mosque after the pair were killed in the horror road traffic accident near Lagos at the end of December.
Joshua was pulled out of the vehicle, clearly in pain, and spent New Year in hospital before jetting home with his boxing career hanging in the balance.
Now, though, he is back in the gym, and he shared snaps of him working out and hitting pads in what he branded ‘mental strength therapy’ on his Snapchat.
He can be seen hitting some pads in a gym, as well as carrying out a lower leg workout, on an exercise bike and getting in a pool in a compilation of footage.
Other posts included a picture of what appeared to be the time he had been working out with the caption: ‘I am a fighter,’ and a photo of Joshua being hit by Wladimir Klitschko during their 2017 heavyweight title fight.
Anthony Joshua has returned to boxing training after a car crash that killed two of his friends
Another video shared by the two-time world champion shows him getting into a swimming pool
It comes 17 days after Joshua was involved in a car crash in Nigeria that hospitalised him
The heavyweight boxer landed at London Stansted Airport on January 2 and has been recuperating at his mansion.
It comes after Daily Mail Sport exclusively revealed how AJ cheated death following a last-minute decision before the Lexus SUV he travelled in set off for its tragic journey.
The World Champion boxer, 36, swapped seats from the front to the back of his SUV before the smash which killed Sina Ghami and Latif Ayodele just hours after they arrived in Nigeria for a holiday.
In addition, Joshua’s driver did not have a valid driver’s licence before the smash on Nigeria’s most deadly road which hospitalised the multi-millionaire boxer.
The jaw-dropping revelation emerged at the hearing for his driver Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode, 47, in Sagamu High Court on Friday, at which he denied all charges against him which included dangerous driving.
Kayode was wearing a black Muslim kaftan and pleaded not guilty when the charges were read out to him by the clerk as members of his family attended. He claims he is innocent and the brakes failed.
Kayode, who has worked for Joshua for more than three years, was granted bail and rushed away by police to Sagamu Correctional Centre for paperwork to be completed.
The driver’s lawyer Olalekan Abiodun told the Daily Mail: ‘My client has pleaded not guilty and what happened was an accident, I haven’t had a full chance to speak with him yet but I know he is saying the brakes did not work.
In more footage shared by Joshua, he could be seen working out, including on an exercise bike
Joshua pictured with friends Latif Ayodele (centre) and Sina Ghami who both died in the crash
‘I also understand that the journey started in Lagos and that initially Anthony had got into the front seat but the driver asked him to swap seats.’
‘He did this because Anthony is a big fellow and he couldn’t see the wing mirror properly so he asked him to move and he sat behind the driver.
‘From what I understand Latif was in front and then changed seats with Anthony.’
