Boxing champion Anthony Joshua has said that those close to him have died due to being infected by the coronavirus.
Joshua was set to defend his boxing title against IBF mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev in June 2020 but with the current global crisis, that seems highly unlikely.
Speaking via his YouTube channel, the sportsman said:
“Wherever you are in the world, I’m just checking in personally for everyone to just say, I hope you’re well…
I’ve lost no one immediate to me but I’ve lost close ones from my boxing gym; close friends and friends of friends. And it gets serious when it starts coming closer to home.
I would love to be out there right now doing the most on my dirt bikes, meeting up with my boys, sparring, going down to the boxing gym.
Even a rebel like me is trying to follow some guidelines to do the right thing.”
