{"id":13080,"date":"2023-04-02T12:04:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T12:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=13080"},"modified":"2023-04-02T12:04:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T12:04:28","slug":"nigeria-is-proud-of-you-tinubu-hails-anthony-joshua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=13080","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nigeria Is Proud Of You\u2019, Tinubu Hails Anthony Joshua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">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.\u00a0<\/span><\/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 bout at the O2 Arena in London, on Saturday night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2392,843,155],"class_list":["post-13080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-bola-tinubu","tag-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13082,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13080\/revisions\/13082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}