{"id":810476,"date":"2026-07-19T16:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810476\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T16:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:14:10","slug":"andy-ruiz-delivers-honest-verdict-on-tyson-fury-vs-anthony-joshua-it-only-takes-one-punch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810476\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Ruiz delivers honest verdict on Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua: “It only takes one punch”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy Ruiz Jr has outlined the keys to victory for both Tyson Fury<\/a> and Anthony Joshua<\/a>, who are expected to collide in a long-awaited showdown later this year.<\/p>\n

First, the two British heavyweights must complete their respective warm-up fights against Mariusz Wach and Kristian Prenga, who have been purposely selected as low-risk opponents.<\/p>\n

Yet it is not so much the danger of losing, but rather the risk of either man sustaining an injury or cut, that has added a slice of jeopardy to their domestic dustup.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Fury has arranged to meet the 46-year-old Wach in Pattaya, Thailand, on July 24.<\/p>\n

Despite unanimously outpointing Arslanbek Makhmudov<\/a> in April, the \u2018Gypsy King\u2019 clearly felt an urge to bank further rounds against the Polish veteran, who suffered a particularly devastating second-round stoppage defeat to Moses Itauma in 2024.<\/p>\n

Joshua, meanwhile, will face unproven heavyweight Prenga in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the following day, entering his first outing since scoring a sixth-round finish over Jake Paul in December.<\/p>\n

But regardless of these warm-up fights, Ruiz has told talkSPORT<\/a> that he can see outcomes where either Fury or \u2018AJ\u2019 emerges victorious in their potential all-British clash.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a good fight. If Tyson Fury gets in Joshua\u2019s head and boxes around, moves around, throws his combinations, maybe it could affect Anthony Joshua.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if Anthony Joshua goes in there and starts banging out with Tyson Fury, he could probably win. It only takes one punch to change the whole fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ruiz famously dethroned Joshua with a stunning seventh-round stoppage<\/a> in 2019, only to lose his unified crown in their immediate rematch later that year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Ruiz Jr has outlined the keys to victory for both Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, who are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-810476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810476","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=810476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}