{"id":634795,"date":"2026-06-12T12:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/634795\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:07:08","slug":"roy-jones-jr-urges-tyson-fury-to-avoid-two-men-before-anthony-joshua-fight-they-can-spoil-the-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/634795\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Jones Jr urges Tyson Fury to avoid two men before Anthony Joshua fight: &#8220;They can spoil the party\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/tyson-fury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyson Fury<\/a>\u2019s search for an August opponent continues, fan-favourite four-division world champion Roy Jones Jr has advised \u2018The Gypsy King\u2019 to steer clear of two rumoured opponents, whom he believes \u2018could spoil the party\u2019 ahead of a long awaited showdown with <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/anthony-joshua\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Joshua<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst AJ is set to take on Kristian Prenga on Saturday, July 25, in his \u2018tune-up\u2019, ahead of the clash with Fury, the latter is yet to announce who will be in the opposing corner when he next fights.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, a number of names have been linked to a shot at disrupting Fury\u2019s plans for a \u2018Battle of Britain\u2019 between he and \u2018AJ\u2019; with <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/tyson-fury-leading-option-for-next-fight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nelson Hysa understood to be the \u2018leading option\u2019 at present<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, both Andy Ruiz Jr and <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/fury-interested-in-facing-avoided-heavy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jarrell Miller have also been mentioned for the away corner<\/a>. Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/bettinglounge.co.uk\/lp\/betting-sites-pm\/?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=23922362556&amp;gbraid=0AAAAA9-BRAfR_E_6cmWjj5ydlynLqco60&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwuanRBhBSEiwAY5y6V005gfxCjlAm4UcRKNlvYJ1DewRGx_kD7acPVQDF6q5Wv5wECghkzRoCHmcQAvD_BwE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BettingLounge<\/a>, Jones told Fury to avoid both men, believing that any \u2018real challenge\u2019 could scupper his plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know what they\u2019re doing, and I understand the warm-up fight for both of them. I just hope they are warm-up fights and not real challenges, because if they are real challenges, somebody is not going to win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt happens every time. Every time they fight a real challenge before they fight each other, somebody gets beat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I hope they\u2019re taking true warm-up fights and not real fights, because if they take two real fights, somebody is going to lose. I hope it isn\u2019t Andy Ruiz, and I hope it isn\u2019t \u2018Big Baby\u2019 Miller for Fury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Fury really can beat both of them, but Andy Ruiz spoiled a party one time on Joshua\u2019s side. Please don\u2019t have him spoil the party again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMiller isn\u2019t a bum either. Miller and Andy Ruiz are both capable of spoiling the party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fury\u2019s opponent is expected to be confirmed imminently, with his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c4g4y00ej10o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u2018run out\u2019 expected to take place in August<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Tyson Fury\u2019s search for an August opponent continues, fan-favourite four-division world champion Roy Jones Jr has advised&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-634795","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\/634795","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=634795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}