{"id":398868,"date":"2023-02-06T16:19:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T21:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=398868"},"modified":"2023-02-06T16:28:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T21:28:28","slug":"joshuas-comeback-fight-to-take-place-at-the-o2-arena-in-london","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/joshuas-comeback-fight-to-take-place-at-the-o2-arena-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua&#8217;s comeback fight to take place at O2 Arena in London."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Joshua, who had unified the WBO, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles between 2016 and 2018, will have his comeback fight against Jermaine Franklin on April 1 at the O2 Arena in London.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anthony Joshua-Jermaine Franklin Official For April 1, Joshua&#39;s First Bout With James <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vD5qA39A0C\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/vD5qA39A0C<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MB2RmaLavn\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/MB2RmaLavn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BoxingScene.com (@boxingscene) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/boxingscene\/status\/1622628700276813824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This will be Joshua&#8217;s first bout without at least one world title on the line in almost seven years.<\/p>\n<p>The Englishman lost them when Andy Ruiz stopped him in New York in 2019 but he reclaimed them in an immediate rematch later that year.<\/p>\n<p>He has, however, only won one bout since then, a 2020 stoppage victory over Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine&#8217;s Oleksandr Usyk, unbeaten and formerly an undisputed champion down at cruiserweight, outboxed and outpointed Joshua at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in 2021.<\/p>\n<div data-oc-no=\"1\">\n<div class=\"sdc-site-layout-sticky-region \" data-interscroller=\"true\" data-format=\"floated-mpu\" data-role=\"sticky-region\" data-component-name=\"sdc-site-layout\" data-interscroller-label=\"Scroll for more\" data-init=\"true\" data-advert-rendered=\"300x600\">\n<div class=\"sdc-site-layout-sticky-region__target\">\n<div class=\"sdc-site-layout-sticky-region__mask\">\n<div data-consent=\"true\" data-vendor-name=\"peer-39\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-consent=\"true\" data-vendor-name=\"peer-39\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-398871 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/joshua-franklin.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-layout-sticky-region \" data-interscroller=\"true\" data-format=\"floated-mpu\" data-role=\"sticky-region\" data-component-name=\"sdc-site-layout\" data-interscroller-label=\"Scroll for more\" data-init=\"true\" data-advert-rendered=\"300x600\">\n<div class=\"sdc-site-layout-sticky-region__target\">\n<div class=\"sdc-site-layout-sticky-region__mask\">\n<div class=\"sdc-site-layout-sticky-region__content\">\n<div class=\"sdc-site-au site-component-vertical-margin\" data-ad-format=\"mpu\" data-type=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-advert-rendered=\"300x600\">\n<div data-consent=\"true\" data-vendor-name=\"peer-39\"><\/div>\n<div data-consent=\"true\" data-vendor-name=\"peer-39\">Last August Joshua, with new trainer Robert Garcia in his corner, took him on a second time but was also defeated in that rematch in Saudi Arabia.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Joshua, who had unified the WBO, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles between 2016 and 2018, will have his comeback fight against Jermaine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":398869,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17307,17308,17309],"news_category":[16710],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Joshua had unified the WBO, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles between 2016 and 2018","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/398868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/398868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398868"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=398868"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=398868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}