{"id":820068,"date":"2026-07-24T03:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T03:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/820068\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T03:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T03:58:17","slug":"tyson-fury-readies-for-thai-fight-wonders-if-joshua-will-be-a-no-show-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/820068\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury readies for Thai fight, wonders if Joshua will be a no-show in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Anthony Joshua\u2019s promoter Eddie Hearn has dismissed comments from Tyson Fury that the long-awaited clash between the two former world heavyweight boxing champions may not happen.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Fury and Joshua are both back in the ring this week for bouts against Poland\u2019s Mariusz Wach and Albania\u2019s Kristian Prenga, respectively, that are seen as must-win warm-up fights if their \u2018Battle of Britain\u2019 is to go ahead.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Fury, 37, faces Wach in the Thai resort of Pattaya on Friday in what is effectively a charity contest, with no live broadcast, while compatriot Joshua, 36, is in action the following day in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The British rivals are expected to finally meet in November, with a date and venue yet to be announced for a bout many boxing fans wish had taken place when at least one of the duo still held a world championship belt.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Two-time heavyweight champion Joshua\u2019s bout with Prenga will be his first professional fight since being involved in a car crash in Nigeria in December that killed two of his close friends.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Anthony Joshua (right) and promotor Eddie Hearn answer questions from the media in Riyadh. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0a7e3581-08a0-4388-a45f-8b0534a8658c_504cfb55.jpg\" title=\"Anthony Joshua (right) and promotor Eddie Hearn answer questions from the media in Riyadh. Photo: Reuters\"\/>Anthony Joshua (right) and promotor Eddie Hearn answer questions from the media in Riyadh. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Fury, in a recent interview with Sky Sports, said he is prepared to face \u201csomebody else\u201d later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua\u2019s promoter Eddie Hearn has dismissed comments from Tyson Fury that the long-awaited clash between the two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[8075,395143,64,63,1576,802,60999,9915,87392,21423,52731,374639,24605,236969,2643,85,8691,8076,395142],"class_list":["post-820068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-arbitration-ruling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bbc","tag-boxing","tag-deontay-wilder","tag-eddie-hearn","tag-ibf","tag-jeddah","tag-lagos","tag-mariusz-wach","tag-nigeria","tag-pattaya","tag-sky-sports","tag-sports","tag-tyson-fury","tag-wembley-stadium","tag-world-heavyweight-boxing-champions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820068","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=820068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}