{"id":587294,"date":"2026-05-16T12:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T12:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/587294\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T12:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T12:45:16","slug":"audley-harrison-delivers-honest-verdict-on-tyson-fury-vs-anthony-joshua-he-only-has-one-way-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/587294\/","title":{"rendered":"Audley Harrison delivers honest verdict on Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua: &#8220;He only has one way to win&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Audley Harrison has considered how fellow Olympic gold medallist <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/anthony-joshua\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Joshua<\/a> will fare against <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/tyson-fury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyson Fury<\/a> later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The pair have agreed to collide in a long-awaited heavyweight showdown, but only if \u2018AJ\u2019 successfully comes through his next outing against Kristian Prenga.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cy8j2zvxzy1o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Having not fought since his sixth-round finish over Jake Paul in December<\/a>, Joshua is now gearing up to face Prenga in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on July 25.<\/p>\n<p>This represents his first assignment since losing two of his closest friends to a car crash in Nigeria, where he too was involved in the tragic incident.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the following few months were spent recovering from his injuries, though Joshua now appears to be inching closer towards finally squaring off with Fury.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Gypsy King\u2019, meanwhile, has already completed a tune-up fight by <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/tyson-fury-makhmudov-live-scorecard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ending a 16-month layoff against Arslanbek Makhmudov<\/a>, who he unanimously outpointed last month.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after emerging triumphant, Fury called out Joshua, who remained seated at ringside while refusing to engage in a face-off.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, though, Harrison has <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SkySportsBoxing\/status\/2054971175248310534?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">told Sky Sports<\/a> that he saw a fire in the 36-year-old\u2019s eyes, bright enough to suggest he is ready for the task ahead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom a boxing point of view, it\u2019s a sexy fight. Because styles make fights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Joshua] can\u2019t win the fight trying to box Fury \u2013 he has to go in there, break him up and try to take him out. That\u2019s the only way he\u2019s going to win this fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re fighting a master boxer who knows how to slip [and] slide. After the [Makhmudov] fight\u2026 he [Joshua] looked at Fury [with intent].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen they go in that fight, he\u2019s going to take that fire \u2013 all that he\u2019s been through with the death of his friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite returning to the win column after suffering back-to-back defeats against Oleksandr Usyk in 2024, Fury is seemingly looking to enter a second warm-up fight.<\/p>\n<p>Whether this materialises, it remains to be seen, but surely he would not be willing to risk a potential clash with Joshua.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Audley Harrison has considered how fellow Olympic gold medallist Anthony Joshua will fare against Tyson Fury later this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-587294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}