{"id":712940,"date":"2026-06-03T16:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/712940\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:33:17","slug":"kristian-prenga-says-he-has-what-it-takes-to-stop-anthony-joshua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/712940\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristian Prenga says he has what it takes to stop Anthony Joshua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">With Kristian Prenga set for the biggest opportunity of his career when he takes on Anthony Joshua on July 26 in Riyadh, he talks to the media after his opening press conference to continue asserting his belief that he\u2019s not coming to just roll over for a payday. So, naturally, Prenga was asked what makes him believe that he can beat Joshua.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cHe went through a lot of stuff,\u201d Prenga said with the assistance of a translator while also using his English to the best of his ability. \u201cHe was out of boxing for a while, he had the car accident which I feel sorry [for him], and it\u2019s my time. I believe [I knock him out]. I promise you it\u2019s not going to go 10 rounds, the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Prenga would then tell fans what they should know about him, if they are unfamiliar with his work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI\u2019m a fighter. I\u2019m not a boxer, I\u2019m a fighter. I fight\u2026I\u2019m going to shock the world, brother. I\u2019m going to shock the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Prenga, 35, hasn\u2019t fought anybody near the level of Joshua throughout his professional fighting career, so if he\u2019s able to take this massive step up and come through on top, it would indeed be quite the shock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Kristian Prenga set for the biggest opportunity of his career when he takes on Anthony Joshua on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-712940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712940","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=712940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}