{"id":616801,"date":"2026-06-02T10:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616801\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T10:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:02:09","slug":"eddie-hearn-reveals-prengas-camp-wants-fury-fight-called-off-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/616801\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn Reveals Prenga’s Camp Wants Fury Fight Called Off Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hearn said the confidence behind the scenes has been far more aggressive than the respectful tone Prenga\u2019s side has shown publicly.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve always said to me, cancel the Fury fight. Cancel the Fury fight. And I said to them, they\u2019re quite respectful people. They come and say, \u2018We come with nothing but respect.\u2019 I said, \u2018No, no, don\u2019t come with respect. Come with beef.\u2019 If you believe this, tell us. Don\u2019t get up there at the press and go, \u2018Oh, I really respect what AJ\u2019s achieved.\u2019 Tell us, cancel the Tyson Fury fight because I\u2019m going to knock you out and spoil the biggest fight in British boxing history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joshua returns on July 25 at the Jeddah Superdome after a lengthy layoff that followed injury and a car accident. A fight with Fury is expected later this year if both men handle their business first.<\/p>\n

Prenga has never fought anyone close to Joshua\u2019s level, but Joshua enters the bout with more questions than answers. He is returning from a serious car crash and has not faced a top heavyweight since his knockout loss to Daniel Dubois in 2024.<\/p>\n

Hearn suggested Prenga\u2019s camp genuinely believes Joshua is vulnerable heading into his comeback.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people look at the fight with AJ, and they get this fake belief. I believe he thinks he can win, but they get this in their head that AJ\u2019s not the fighter he was, especially coming off the layoff, coming off the injury, and the crash. These guys truly believe they can come in.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Matchroom chairman also revealed the level of intensity he is seeing from Joshua ahead of the fight, insisting there is no danger of his fighter overlooking Prenga because of the attention surrounding Fury.<\/p>\n

\u201cAJ\u2019s going into this fight with the mentality to rip him to shreds, to absolutely punish and pulverize him to a pulp on July 25th. There is no friendly friendly. I\u2019ve never seen AJ with this kind of aggression going into a fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Fury fight remains the major attraction on the heavyweight calendar, but Prenga\u2019s team is openly talking as though it will never happen.<\/p>\n

Prenga\u2019s camp may be badly overestimating its chances. What stands out is that they feel comfortable saying the Fury fight might never happen. A few years ago, nobody would have dared.<\/p>\n

Olly Campbell is a boxing journalist who has covered the sport since 2014, providing ringside reporting and technical analysis of major bouts. His work focuses on fighter tendencies, tactical adjustments, and the details that shape high-level competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hearn said the confidence behind the scenes has been far more aggressive than the respectful tone Prenga\u2019s side…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-616801","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\/616801","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=616801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}