{"id":397384,"date":"2021-09-26T09:40:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T08:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=397384"},"modified":"2021-09-26T09:40:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T08:40:25","slug":"anthony-joshua-rushed-to-hospital-after-losing-to-usyk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=397384","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua rushed to hospital after losing to Usyk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Anthony Joshua was taken to hospital for assessment following his loss to Oleksandr Usyk on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The British-Nigerian boxer is suspected to have suffered eye socket damage.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua\u2019s promoter, Eddie Hearn, has revealed that he could not see properly after the ninth round.<\/p>\n<p>By the 10th round, \u2018AJ\u2019 was carrying a black and swollen eye, as Usyk continued to batter him at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian almost knocked him down in the final seconds, but won via unanimous decision 117-112, 116-112 and 115-113.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will go to hospital. I don\u2019t know if he has broken his eye socket, it doesn\u2019t look great.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said he couldn\u2019t see after the ninth round, obviously he was getting tagged a lot as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis power looked like it had left him, the tank was empty and it was only heart which kept him on his feet in the 12th round,\u201d Hearn said afterwards.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(DailyPost)<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Joshua was taken to hospital for assessment following his loss to Oleksandr Usyk on Saturday night. The British-Nigerian boxer is suspected to have suffered eye socket damage. Joshua\u2019s promoter, Eddie Hearn, has revealed that he could not see properly after the ninth round. By the 10th round, \u2018AJ\u2019 was carrying a black and swollen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":397385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[897],"class_list":["post-397384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anthony-joshua"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/397385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}