A family member related to Anthony Joshua was shocked by a bad car crash in Nigeria that killed two people. The boxer got minor injuries and had to go to the hospital.

The 36-year-old heavyweight was driving from Lagos to his family's place when it happened. The family member told the BBC they were waiting for Joshua to come for New Year's since they didn't see him at Christmas.

Eddie Hearn, Joshua's promoter and chairman of Matchroom, told Mirror Sport that he knew about the accident. He said Joshua was going to the hospital but was okay.

Photos from the crash site showed Joshua wincing as he got help from the wreckage. The crash was on the Lagos–Ibadan expressway near a Danco gas station, close to the Sagamu Interchange, which is northeast of Lagos.

Joshua's relative said, We hope he gets better soon, and we pray for the people who died to rest in peace. He usually comes around for the new year. We haven't seen him, so we were expecting him.

Local road safety people said that five men were in the crash. Two died, and two were fine. Joshua was one of them, and they said he had minor injuries before going to a hospital.

The boxer, who had beaten Jake Paul in a fight 10 days earlier, was in a two-car convoy with a security car behind him when they hit a parked truck.

Officials said that driving too fast and passing incorrectly caused the crash. The Federal Road Safety Corps tweeted, The Lexus Jeep was probably going too fast and lost control while trying to pass. It hit a truck parked on the side of the road.

Driving too fast and passing wrongly are big traffic problems and cause many deadly crashes on Nigerian roads.

Joshua was chilling after knocking out American YouTuber-turned-boxer Paul in Miami, Florida, on December 19th. The former heavyweight champ filled in after Paul's fight with Gervonta 'Tank' Davis in November was cancelled.

During the fight, Joshua broke Paul's jaw in two places and won. This was after he lost to Daniel Dubois in 2024. Now, he might fight Tyson Fury again since they're talking about a fight.

He said, We got rid of the rust, and I'm ready for 2026. If Tyson Fury is serious and wants to stop talking trash on Twitter, put on some gloves and fight a real fighter who will fight anyone, and then step in the ring with me next.

If you're really tough, don't just talk, 'AJ this, AJ that.' Let's see you in the ring and fight.

Naoya Inoue of Japan, still undefeated, mentioned he was beat after his unanimous decision victory over Alan Picasso from Mexico in Riyadh this Saturday. This marks his fourth victory in the fourth month of 2025.

The Monster, as he’s called, defended his super bantamweight titles for the sixth time. This fight was his Saudi Arabia debut after inking a deal with Turki Alalshikh, the guy steering the ship in the kingdom's boxing scene.

Even so, he couldn't quite knock out the tough Picasso and had to settle for a unanimous decision, his second in a row.

At 32, Inoue's year has been packed, and he chalked up his performance, which he admitted wasn't good, to being worn out.

"I'm tired, to be real," he confessed after his record hit 32 wins, with 27 by knockout. It's not just about the four fights, but all the hard work prepping for them.

You can handle it when it's happening because you're just thinking about the fight, but now that it's done, I see that I really gave all I had, he continued.

Inoue's win opens the door for a potentially huge fight with fellow countryman Junto Nakatani in Tokyo next year. Nakatani also won by unanimous decision against Sebastian Hernandez of Mexico earlier that night in his first super bantamweight fight.

Inoue pointed out that nothing's set in stone yet but said he’d love to set up a fight that would get everyone in Japan hyped.

Against Picasso, Inoue was eight centimeters shorter. Picasso also came into the fight without a loss, just one draw in 32 wins.

From the get-go, Inoue's skill was clear as he landed some solid hits in the early rounds.

In the sixth, Inoue shook Picasso again, but the Mexican fighter started throwing punches.

Picasso hung in there, making it to the 12th round, but the judges' decision was pretty clear by then.

This is the second fight in a row that Inoue has gone the distance, after beating Murodjon Akhmadaliev of Uzbekistan by unanimous decision back in September.

"No disrespect to Picasso, but I wanted to show a bigger difference between us and knock him down," Inoue said. I didn't live up to my own expectations or fight the way I wanted to.

Nakatani got a reality check in the super bantamweight division in his fight against Hernandez.

The 27-year-old seemed good in the first half, but Hernandez wouldn't give up and fought his way back into the game.

Nakatani did just enough to win and kept his record perfect at 32 wins, 24 by knockout.

He called the fight an experience and is hoping to fight Inoue next.

"I moved up to this division to win world titles, so if I get the chance, I want to take it," Nakatani stated.