{"id":779542,"date":"2026-07-05T00:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T00:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779542\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T00:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T00:12:16","slug":"two-time-world-heavyweight-champion-tyson-fury-to-fight-in-thailand-before-joshua-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779542\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-time world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury to fight in Thailand before Joshua clash"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Two-time<\/p>\n

\nTyson Fury during his ringwalk before his fight against Arslanbek Makhmudov in Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, Britain, April 11, 2026. Photo by Reuters\t<\/p>\n

British boxer Tyson Fury has said he will take on Mariusz Wach in a charity match in Thailand this month, ahead of an anticipated clash with Anthony Joshua.\t<\/p>\n

The 37-year-old two-time world heavyweight champion announced on his Facebook page on Wednesday that he “will be fighting Mariusz Wach live and exclusive here in Pattaya, Thailand”.<\/p>\n

The 12-round bout will take place on July 24, he said.<\/p>\n

Fury last retired after his second successive loss to world champion Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk at the end of 2024, and went a calendar year without a fight before announcing his latest comeback in January.<\/p>\n

He famously dethroned long-reigning champion Wladimir Klitschko in 2015, and is known for his exceptional speed despite his towering size of 6 feet 9 inches (2.06 meters).<\/p>\n

Fury’s fight with Wach, a 46-year-old Pole nicknamed “The Viking”, is seen as a warm-up for a clash with Joshua expected this year.<\/p>\n

Fury said the Wach match would take place at Max Muay Thai Stadium in Pattaya, and be recorded by Netflix for his TV series.<\/p>\n

All proceeds would be donated to local starving and homeless children, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury during his ringwalk before his fight against Arslanbek Makhmudov in Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, Britain, April…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85,369185],"class_list":["post-779542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-two-time-world-heavyweight-champion-tyson-fury-to-fight-in-thailand-before-joshua-clash-vnexpress-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779542","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=779542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}