The former unified world champion will return to the ring in July, his first fight since two of his friends died and he was injured in a crash near Lagos

Anthony Joshua says he is standing strong “as a soldier” for the parents of two close friends killed in a car crash as the British heavyweight prepares for his return to boxing.

Joshua takes on the little-known Albanian on July 25 in Jeddah – his first appearance since surviving a car crash in Nigeria in December.