Star heavyweight Anthony Joshua has officially lined up his next moves after his highlight knockout win over Jake Paul in December.<\/p>\n
Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, announced on Monday that the 36-year-old has signed a contract for a fight against Tyson Fury, though a date wasn’t revealed.<\/p>\n
If that wasn’t enough, HE Turki Alalshikh announced that Joshua will face Kristian Prenga on July 25 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
“It’s no secret I’ve 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,” Joshua said in a statement. “I’m delighted to have agreed to a multi-fight deal starting with July 25th in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. I’m looking forward to competing and picking up where I left off. As I said, the landlord will collect his rent. That is certain.”<\/p>\n
Joshua and Fury have circled each other for years. Both of them are former heavyweight champions and among the most popular fighters in the world. Fans will certainly rejoice when a fight between them finally comes to fruition.<\/p>\n
But first, Joshua will return to the ring against Prenga, who is 20-1 with all of his wins coming by KO or TKO. The 35-year-old made it clear that he’s looking to play spoiler on July 25.<\/p>\n
“Anthony Joshua is a great \ufb01ghter, but he made a terrible miscalculation in picking me as his opponent,” he said. “This is the kind of \ufb01ght that changes everything in my life and his. I know they have big plans ahead after this \ufb01ght. I know they are overlooking me. I’m happy about that. I will derail their plans and shock the world.”<\/p>\n
It sounds like Joshua and Fury are locked in for a future bout regardless of his result against Prenga, so fans could finally see one of the most anticipated fights in recent memory by the end of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star heavyweight Anthony Joshua has officially lined up his next moves after his highlight knockout win over Jake…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-632461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}