{"id":470253,"date":"2026-02-10T08:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/470253\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T08:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:57:11","slug":"albanian-flags-set-to-fly-in-atlantic-city-when-prenga-faces-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/470253\/","title":{"rendered":"Albanian flags set to fly in Atlantic City when Prenga faces Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming off a 15-bout win streak, Albanian heavyweight Kristian \u201cKP\u201d Prenga returns to action over eight rounds at the Showboat Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City on February 21.<br \/>The 19-1 (19 KOs) puncher faces veteran Joe Jones, who is 16-14-1 (10 KOs).<br \/>Prenga, formerly a kickboxer, now boxing out of Edgewater in New Jersey, is ready for his fifth outing on the New Jersey shore.<br \/>The 34-year-old last defeated Brandon Carmack in a round in Ballys on December 6.<br \/>The 6ft 5ins, 260lbs Prenga said: \u201cThis is going to be a great fight. Jones is an experienced and tough opponent. I have been training hard and camp is going great. I like fighting in Atlantic City because my fans enjoy spending the weekend there, watching my fight, and if they are lucky in the casino, we all go home winners.\u201d<br \/>It has been nine years since Prenga tasted defeat, when he lost an eight-rounder in his fifth fight on points.<br \/>Jones fights out of Jersey City, NJ, and on January 6 defeated Cleotis Pendaruis by a majority over six rounds.\u00a0<br \/>It will be Prenga\u2019s first contest since signing with manager Keith Sullivan.<br \/>\u201cKristian Prenga is an exciting and powerful puncher,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cI am thrilled to start this journey with a fight against an experienced Joe Jones in Atlantic City. Kristian is ready to showcase his strength and determination, and the fans are in for an unforgettable night. \u201cThere will be a lot of Albanian flags flying in the convention center as the pride of Albania will be in full effect on fight night.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coming off a 15-bout win streak, Albanian heavyweight Kristian \u201cKP\u201d Prenga returns to action over eight rounds at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[240214,240213,64,63,802,1920,6653,240212,240211,85],"class_list":["post-470253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-albanian-boxing","tag-atlantic-city-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-joe-jones","tag-kristian-prenga","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}