{"id":1187,"date":"2023-04-02T11:51:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T11:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2023-04-02T11:51:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T11:51:43","slug":"nigeria-is-proud-of-you-tinubu-hails-anthony-joshua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/04\/02\/nigeria-is-proud-of-you-tinubu-hails-anthony-joshua\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nigeria Is Proud Of You\u2019, Tinubu Hails Anthony Joshua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, has celebrated the victory of British-Nigerian fighter, Anthony Joshua, over Jermaine Franklin in a 12-round bout at the O2 Arena in London, on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Joshua had suffered back-to-back losses against Ukrainian fighter Oleksandr Usyk and was desperate to get his career back on track.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The victory over Franklin was his first win since December 2020 when he was stopped by Kubrat Pulev.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Commenting on the victory via his Twitter handle, Tinubu said, \u201cCongratulations Champ! @AnthonyJoshua. Determination and perseverance always pays off. Nigeria is proud of you!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The two-time world champion up until now had a perfect record at the O2 Arena with seven wins and seven knockouts but while his winning record stands, he could not keep his knockout record at the venue intact.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Joshua now has 25 wins and three losses from 27 fights while Franklin has 21 wins and two losses from 23 bouts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, has celebrated the victory of British-Nigerian fighter, Anthony Joshua, over Jermaine Franklin in a 12-round<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}