Boxer Anthony Joshua set to return to training camp for summer comeback fight

Boxer Anthony Joshua is preparing to return to training camp for a summer comeback fight, with a potential Tyson Fury showdown. Joshua, 36, last fought on December 19 when he stopped YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in six rounds. But ten days after that victory, tragedy struck when the former world champion was involved in a horror road crash in Nigeria that claimed the lives of two of his close friends Kevin Latz Ayodele and recovery therapist Sina Ghami. Joshua survived the accident but has since been recovering from injuries sustained in the accident while also grieving the loss of the two men. But the two-time heavyweight champion has been training at Finchley his first amateur gym with promoter Eddie Hearn teasing a summer fight. He told iFL TV: Were very close to returning to training camp. And I feel like AJ is physically and perhaps mentally ready to throw himself back in to that environment. And its exciting, I mean, for everything that hes been through and all the pain, I dont think that will leave. But he has a career and he has a job to do in that respect, which he wants to continue doing. And Im excited to see him back. I feel like with fighters some may disagree watching this but generally I feel like theyre at their happiest when theyre in training camp. Like everythings there. The regiment is there, the discipline is there, the focus is there, intentions there, the end goal is there. And although its a lot of hard work, I really feel like AJ as well when hes in training camp, thats him. Joshua, 36, had initially been in talks to return to Saudi Arabia to set up a summer showdown with Fury.  Fury faces Arslanbek Makhmudov in his comeback bout at Tottenhams stadium on April 11. And Hearn believes AJ is likely to fight first before taking on Fury but warned not to rule out jumping straight into the Battle of Britain. He said: The March fight now becomes probably July, and if the Fury fight is still there, that probably becomes November, something like that. So theres been discussions about going straight into a Fury fight. Obviously, hes got his fight against Makhmudov. With everything thats happened, I expect him to have a fight first and that fight to come in the summer. But you never know how he feels, and you might feel fantastic, and he might say, Lets lets go straight in. I dont think so. Given the fact that he only had a few rounds against Jake Paul and everything thats happened as well, unfortunately. But until he gets back into training camp, therell be therell be no decisions on the actual route that we take. The post Boxer Anthony Joshua set to return to training camp for summer comeback fight appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.