{"id":727177,"date":"2026-08-04T12:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/727177\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T12:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:18:08","slug":"frank-warren-delivers-honest-verdict-on-anthony-joshuas-ability-ahead-of-tyson-fury-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/727177\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Warren delivers honest verdict on Anthony Joshua’s ability ahead of Tyson Fury fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frank Warren has weighed in on the Anthony Joshua<\/a> \u2018punch resistance\u2019 discussion as the Brit seemingly inches closer towards a long-awaited clash with Tyson Fury.<\/p>\n

The pair are expected to collide later this year, albeit with a specific date and location having not yet become clear.<\/p>\n

Perhaps more obvious, however, is the deterioration of both former two-time heavyweight champions, who seemed a shadow of their former selves as they came through respective warm-up fights last weekend.<\/p>\n

Joshua, in particular, appeared in a state of deep decline against Kristian Prenga<\/a>, who floored him with a right uppercut in the first 20 seconds of their contest.<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old was then put down a second time in the opening round, before climbing back to his feet and stopping the previously little-known Albanian in the following three minutes.<\/p>\n

Conversely, Fury seemed to encounter minimal danger, but nonetheless looked his age, as he trundled through seven rounds against the 46-year-old Mariusz Wach<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But still, many are convinced that the 37-year-old has the beating of Joshua, whose last world-level contest resulted in a fifth-round stoppage defeat to Daniel Dubois in 2024.<\/p>\n

Speaking with DAZN<\/a>, Fury promoter Warren insisted that a similar outcome is likely to materialise in the not too distant future.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Tyson\u2019s a big favourite \u2013 I\u2019ve said that all along. Styles make fights and I think Tyson will stop AJ. He will do what Daniel Dubois did.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Joshua] looks incredible. [Team Usyk have] got him doing a different physical regime, but one thing you can\u2019t do in boxing is put muscles on your chin.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Joshua has, indeed, been training with the team of Oleksandr Usyk, it remains to be seen whether this will have much of an impact on the potential Fury fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frank Warren has weighed in on the Anthony Joshua \u2018punch resistance\u2019 discussion as the Brit seemingly inches closer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-727177","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\/727177","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=727177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}