{"id":432078,"date":"2023-03-28T14:02:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T18:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=432078"},"modified":"2023-06-22T09:12:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T13:12:16","slug":"anthony-joshua-may-retire-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/anthony-joshua-may-retire-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua may retire on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Joshua said he will retire from boxing if he loses to Jermaine Franklin on Saturday at the O2 Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time world heavyweight champion returns to the ring this weekend to face the American after back-to-back defeats to Oleksandr Usyk.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua will be looking for his first professional success since December 2020, but admitted he will retire from boxing if he is defeated for the third time in a row.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Anthony Joshua says he will retire from boxing if he loses against Jermaine Franklin&#8230; \ud83d\ude33 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3ovCsRbnhf\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/3ovCsRbnhf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports Boxing (@SkySportsBoxing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsBoxing\/status\/1640709940892557312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes. I&#8217;ll give up if I lose. I&#8217;m not here to fight people. If people want me to retire, I will. I won&#8217;t fight if people don&#8217;t want me to fight. It&#8217;s not even about the money. It&#8217;s about the fighter in you. This is important. Tensions come with the business and the territory, I know. I know that when I stop boxing, I will rest. I&#8217;ll say to myself &#8220;fuck everyone&#8221;. I&#8217;m done. You put so much pressure on me that by the time I&#8217;m done, the shackles will have fallen off. I&#8217;m going to laugh and love life,\u201d commented AJ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Joshua said he will retire from boxing if he loses to Jermaine Franklin on Saturday at the O2 Arena. The two-time world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":432079,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17307,18144],"news_category":[20045],"gn_keywords":[18480,18146],"acf":{"announce":"\"I won't fight if people don't want me to fight\", AJ said","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\/432078"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432078"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=432078"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=432078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}