Tyson Fury will fight Poland’s Mariusz Wach in Thailand on 24 July as a warm-up for a potential all-British encounter with Anthony Joshua.<\/p>\n
Fury’s fight in Pattaya – where the 37-year-old trains – will be a day before Joshua makes his comeback on 25 July against Kristian Prenga in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – his first fight since being involved in a car crash that killed two of his friends in Nigeria in December 2025.<\/p>\n
Both Fury and Joshua, 36, need to win their fights to set up a meeting between the two former world champions, which is scheduled to happen in 2026.<\/p>\n
Wach, 46, has a record of 39 wins from 51 fights, 20 by knockout. <\/p>\n
But the Pole has won just three of his past 10 bouts and suffered a second-round stoppage to Britain’s Moses Itauma in a WBO Intercontinental heavyweight title fight in July 2024.<\/p>\n
He has been defeated by English boxers Dillian Whyte in 2019 and Frazer Clarke four years later.<\/p>\n
Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn announced in April that the London 2012 Olympic gold medallist had signed to fight Fury.<\/p>\n
That announcement came after Fury had made his return from a 15-month retirement with a points win over Russia’s Arslanbek Makhmudov at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.<\/p>\n
After that victory, Fury immediately called out Joshua, who was ringside, and the pair exchanged words with the Morecambe fighter attempting to goad his rival into the ring.<\/p>\n
There has been growing speculation that their fight could be held in the United States because of the involvement of Saudi powerbroker Turki Alalshikh.<\/p>\n
But last week Hearn told BBC Sport that Joshua and Fury are contractually committed to staging their fight in the UK.<\/a><\/p>\n