{"id":33417,"date":"2020-12-13T16:31:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T16:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=33417"},"modified":"2020-12-13T16:31:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T16:31:21","slug":"buhari-reacts-to-anthony-joshuas-victory-over-kubrat-pulev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-reacts-to-anthony-joshuas-victory-over-kubrat-pulev","title":{"rendered":"Buhari reacts to Anthony Joshua\u2019s victory over Kubrat Pulev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>President Muhammadu Buhari says by retaining his IBF, WBA, and WBO titles, Anthony Joshua has given boxing lovers around the world, and particularly in Nigeria, something to cheer.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Femi Adesina, the President\u2019s spokesman in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, said Buhari made his feelings known while celebrating the decisive victory of the Nigerian-born boxer over Kubrat Pulev on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The President recalled his meeting with the heavyweight champion in London earlier in the year, describing Joshua as a humble, well brought up young man, \u201cwho will still go places.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buhari wished Joshua all the best in his dream fight against Tyson Fury, saying he has the prayers and goodwill of Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that World boxing heavyweight champion Joshua had knocked out Bulgarian Pulev near the end of the ninth round on Saturday to retain his IBF, WBO and WBA belts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. President Muhammadu Buhari says by retaining his IBF, WBA, and WBO titles, Anthony Joshua has given boxing lovers around the world, and particularly in Nigeria, something to cheer. Mr Femi Adesina, the President\u2019s spokesman in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, said Buhari made his feelings known while celebrating the decisive victory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":33416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,1803,97,1802,254],"class_list":["post-33417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-buhari","tag-kubrat-pulev","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Buhari reacts to Anthony Joshua\u2019s victory over Kubrat Pulev - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-reacts-to-anthony-joshuas-victory-over-kubrat-pulev\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buhari reacts to Anthony Joshua\u2019s victory over Kubrat Pulev\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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