It has just been announced that\u00a0 Anthony Joshua will make his return against\u00a0Kristian Prenga on\u00a0Saturday, July 25 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It comes moments\u00a0after Turki Alalshikh announced that Tyson Fury vs Joshua is signed.<\/p>\n
The Olympic gold medallist and former two-time unified heavyweight world champion will headline \u201cThe Comeback\u201d as part of the Esports World Cup Festival, facing the little-known Albanian contender in Prenga.<\/p>\n
Joshua said in a statement sent to Boxing Social: \u201cIt\u2019s no secret I\u2019ve taken some time to consolidate and rebuild to be ready for stepping back into the ring and today is the next step on that journey.I\u2019m delighted to have agreed a multi-fight deal starting with July 25th in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to competing and picking up where I left o\ufb00. As I said. The landlord will collect his rent. That is certain.\u201d<\/p>\n
Prenga (20-1, 20 KOs) is on a 16 fight knockout streak against limited opposition, training\u00a0in America.<\/p>\n
Prenga said: \u201cAnthony Joshua is a great fighter, but he made a terrible miscalculation in picking me as his opponent. This is the kind of fight that changes everything in my life and his.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know they have big plans ahead after this fight. I know they are overlooking me. I\u2019m happy about that. I will derail their plans and shock the world this July in Saudi Arabia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has just been announced that\u00a0 Anthony Joshua will make his return against\u00a0Kristian Prenga on\u00a0Saturday, July 25 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-634156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634156","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=634156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}