Amir Khan meets Anthony Joshua after accusing him of sleeping with his wife

Daily Mirror

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The pair were seemingly good friends until Khan accused Joshua of sleeping with his wife - but the fighters may have rekindled their friendship after linking up together in Ghana
Amir Khan and Anthony Joshua appear to be on good terms again after the former accused the British heavyweight of sleeping with his wife.
Joshua has been enjoying some time outside of the ring post-elbow surgery and the 35-year-old has recently enjoyed luxury trips to Oman, Dubai and Saudi Arabia. The Brit was recently given a hero's welcome and was mobbed by fans after touching down in Ghana.
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The former two-time heavyweight world champion flew out to watch Khan's first ever boxing show as a promoter in the aforementioned African nation. Khan hopes the show will serve as a launchpad for future promotions worldwide. In the main event, Andrew Tabiti defeated Jacob Dickson.
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However, the most stunning moment from the event saw Joshua and Khan appearing rather cordial with each other after being pictured together. This comes nearly a decade on after Khan took to social media to claim Faryal Makhdoom had cheated on him with the heavyweight star.
Joshua denied the claims - posting at the time: 'Bantz aside, I hope you guys can resolve your situation, or this is a hack as we have never even met! Plus, I like my women BBW (sic)." Khan was quick to reveal to his fans that the messages did NOT come from a hacker. 'Everything you saw on social media today is real,' he said. 'Nothing's been hacked. But yeah, what's done is done. Everything I posted on social media today was true,' he added.
Khan and Makhdoom had an 80-minute Twitter exchange before agreeing to separate. However, they eventually rekindled their marriage. Speaking about the incident back in 2019 - ahead of his fight against Terence Crawford - he told ESPN: "It was a made-up message. A lot of people were making all these fake messages saying that 'Joshua messaged your wife and she messaged him back.'
"Then I posted it on social media and said, 'This has happened and it's true. And I'm calling it over. She's no longer my wife.' I did feel bad, I did feel stupid at the time but the damage was done. I made that mistake in tweeting something and putting it out. I was just digging a deeper and deeper hole. I remember I went to see Faryal. I apologised. I said, 'Look, I don't know what went through my head.' And I totally changed my ways, changed the way I am."
Three years later, Khan apologised to Joshua. 'I had the problem with Anthony Joshua, which I feel awful for, because at the end of the day. But I put him in the firing line for no reason,' he told Gary Neville on The Overlap. 'I mean, he was a friend of mine. Since then, we've never spoken. So I lost a good friend through that as well.'
Now, it seems as if the pair are on relatively speaking terms again. Joshua has not fought since losing to Daniel Dubois last year. With the Brit hoping to return to action later this year, boxing promoter Eddie Hearn has listed Dillian Whyte and Jared Anderson as potential opponents for a comeback fight.
"For me, if I'm advising AJ, we're back this year, we have two Tyson Fury fights, what else is there to do?," he said. "Maybe fight a Daniel Dubois, but for me once AJ fights Tyson Fury, he's kind of done it all. I'd love him to have another crack at Daniel Dubois and I'd love him to have another crack at Usyk but you just keep going on and on and on. In an ideal world, we'd like to fight in November/December and then have two Tyson Fury fights in 2026. It was gonna be Dillian Whyte, probably, but looks like he's fighting Moses [Itauma]. Jared Anderson, Deontay Wilder, I don't know."