{"id":721247,"date":"2026-06-07T15:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/721247\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T15:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:51:07","slug":"anthony-joshua-undercard-josh-kelly-and-hamzah-sheeraz-lined-up-for-july-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/721247\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua undercard: Josh Kelly and Hamzah Sheeraz lined up for July 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Promoter Eddie Hearn has revealed two world championship bouts could take place on the undercard of Anthony Joshua-Kristian Prega on July 25 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Joshua will make his return for the first time since his involvement in a car accident that claimed the lives of two of his closest friends in December. Only days before, Joshua had completed a six-round thrashing of Jake Paul.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Jeddah card will be funded by Saudi boxing financier Turki Alalshikh and will subsequently come with a bumper undercard. Hearn, whose Matchroom Boxing will be the lead promoter of the event, has revealed two world champions could make their maiden defenses.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hamzah Sheeraz, who picked up the WBO super middleweight title last month, and Josh Kelly, who claimed the IBF junior middleweight belt back in January and is expected to fight Caoimhin Agyarko.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI think there could be two world championship fights on the undercard,\u201d Hearn told BoxingScene. \u201cHamzah Sheeraz may be one of those as well. Obviously we&#8217;ll talk to Frank Warren and Spencer Brown [Sheeraz\u2019s prmoter and manager] and everybody, and Josh Kelly could feature on there as well. That&#8217;ll be announced this coming week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Promoter Eddie Hearn has revealed two world championship bouts could take place on the undercard of Anthony Joshua-Kristian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[260732,703,711,710,49,48,8809,170627,82],"class_list":["post-721247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-anthony-joshua-undercard","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-hamzah-sheeraz","tag-josh-kelly","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721247","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=721247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}