{"id":730398,"date":"2026-08-07T12:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730398\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T12:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:18:08","slug":"roy-jones-had-one-immediate-thought-when-anthony-joshua-got-knocked-down-twice-by-kristian-prenga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730398\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Jones had one immediate thought when Anthony Joshua got knocked down twice by Kristian Prenga"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roy Jones Jr<\/a> is the latest big name to weigh in on Anthony Joshua<\/a>\u2018s dramatic battle with Kristian Prenga.<\/p>\n

Joshua was going up against Prenga in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in a bout that was expected to be a straightforward affair in order to set up the Brit\u2019s long-awaited showdown with domestic rival Tyson Fury<\/a> later this year.<\/p>\n

It certainly didn\u2019t transpire that way though, as \u2018AJ\u2019 was sensationally knocked down twice<\/a> in the first round, before recovering and claiming the second round knockout win<\/a> to spare his blushes and avoid being on the wrong end of a huge upset.<\/p>\n

Many boxing figures have already offered their take on how things unfolded<\/a>, with boxing legend and four-weight world champion Jones Jr now chiming in with a surprise verdict.<\/p>\n

Speaking to All The Smoke Boxing<\/a>, Jones Jr looked back to when Joshua was linked to a fight with former super middleweight king Andre Ward, claiming that if \u2018AJ\u2019 had been in the ring with Ward, he may have struggled to survive the first round.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen AJ went down two times in that first round, I said \u2018holy smokes, if this was Andre Ward, this fight may be over right now.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI got to give kudos to him because he came back after those two knockdowns, and he got dude out of there in the second round, but immediately I thought \u2018if this is Andre, I don\u2019t think he gets out of the first round\u2026this would be a problem right now.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Ward playfully called out Joshua for a fight last year, but having not competed since 2017 and never above the light heavyweight limit, it was highly unlikely that anything was ever going to come to fruition.<\/p>\n

Instead, Joshua\u2019s attention is now firmly set on Fury, where he will know that he likely have to improve in order to overcome \u2018The Gypsy King.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roy Jones Jr is the latest big name to weigh in on Anthony Joshua\u2018s dramatic battle with Kristian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-730398","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\/730398","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=730398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}