{"id":703237,"date":"2026-07-21T11:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T11:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/703237\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T11:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T11:09:08","slug":"barry-mcguigan-sees-only-one-winner-in-tyson-fury-vs-anthony-joshua-beats-him-every-day-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/703237\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry McGuigan sees only one winner in Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua: “Beats him every day of the week”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish boxing icon Barry McGuigan has backed Anthony Joshua<\/a> to defeat Tyson Fury<\/a>, basing his prediction partly on their much-talked-about sparring session in 2010.<\/p>\n

The two Brits are set to collide later this year, but only if they emerge victorious and unscathed from their respective warm-up fights this weekend.<\/p>\n

First, Fury will face the 46-year-old Mariusz Wach in Pattaya, Thailand, this Friday, despite coming off a unanimous decision victory over Arslanbek Makhmudov<\/a> in April.<\/p>\n

While it was a largely dominant performance, many felt the 37-year-old had lost a step after incurring 16 months of inactivity, which followed his second points defeat to Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> in 2024.<\/p>\n

Against Wach, then, Fury will have the opportunity to produce a more dynamic display, even if the event is not expected to be broadcast on a major platform.<\/p>\n

As for Joshua, there should be no great risk, either, when he faces the unproven Kristian Prenga in Jeddah<\/a>, Saudi Arabia, this Saturday.<\/p>\n

Instead, fans are eager to see how he performs against an actual heavyweight, with most of them remaining unsatisfied following his sixth-round finish over the undersized Jake Paul in December.<\/p>\n

Prior to that, \u2018AJ\u2019 suffered a fifth-round stoppage defeat to Daniel Dubois<\/a> in September 2024, though McGuigan has told talkSPORT<\/a> that Fury, stylistically, represents a vastly different opponent.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Dubois would knock out Anthony Joshua every single day of the week, but I think Joshua beats Tyson Fury every day of the week.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just has that style; he just has that technique. I think he\u2019s too much for [Fury].\u201d<\/p>\n

McGuigan goes on to mention their sparring session that took place in 2010, when Fury admitted to almost being knocked out by the 20-year-old Joshua<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish boxing icon Barry McGuigan has backed Anthony Joshua to defeat Tyson Fury, basing his prediction partly on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-703237","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\/703237","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=703237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}