{"id":714135,"date":"2026-07-27T19:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/714135\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T19:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:55:14","slug":"tyson-fury-reacts-to-anthony-joshua-getting-knocked-down-twice-by-kristian-prenga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/714135\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury reacts to Anthony Joshua getting knocked down twice by Kristian Prenga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/tyson-fury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyson Fury<\/a> has revealed his exact thoughts when <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/anthony-joshua\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Joshua<\/a> was nearly beaten by Kristian Prenga on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua was going up against Prenga in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in his warm-up bout before looking to move towards his long-awaited showdown with Fury later in the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Gypsy King\u2019 had held up his end of the bargain by claiming an uneventful seventh round retirement win over Mariusz Wach 24 hours earlier in Thailand, with it believed that Joshua\u2019s outing against Prenga would be just as straightforward.<\/p>\n<p>It nearly didn\u2019t transpire that way though, as \u2018AJ\u2019 was dramatically knocked down twice in the opening round of the contest, before he recovered and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cgew1lrpgzro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">heavily dropped his rival in the second round to earn the knockout win<\/a> and prevent a huge upset from taking place.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi chief Turki Alalshikh posted highlights of the fight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DbP1YJpIMvc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">on his Instagram account<\/a>, where Fury has commented and seemingly expressed his concern that the battle with Joshua almost didn\u2019t come to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWow, wtf \ud83e\udd2c\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More detailed comments from Fury are expected in the coming days, as he will likely double down on past claims that his rival doesn\u2019t have a good chin. Despite the scare, the pair of British heavyweights will now turn their attention fully to one another, with the pair expected to finally meet in November.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, there is no guarantee for fans that it will take place in the United Kingdom, with Madison Square Garden in New York believed to be the current frontrunner to stage the contest between the two British former world heavyweight champions.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone is looking forward to the bout following this weekend\u2019s action, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/top-trainer-on-joshua-prenga-performance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with one top trainer claiming that Joshua is \u2018shot to bits\u2019 after the performance against Prenga.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury has revealed his exact thoughts when Anthony Joshua was nearly beaten by Kristian Prenga on Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-714135","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\/714135","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=714135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}