This is finally THE fight that English boxing fans, and even those around the world, dreamed of so much. Briton Anthony Joshua will face his compatriot Tyson Fury for the first time in his career in a clash of the titans scheduled for the end of the year, as the fight promotion announced Monday evening.
“Signed, sealed, done!” AJ vs. Fury will take place! “, exclaimed Eddie Hearn, Anthony Joshua’s promoter, on his Instagram account. It is, he added, the “biggest contract we have ever concluded”. By completing: “But above all the one that we always wanted to conclude. The most important year of AJ’s career arrives, come-back is launched”.
Exact date and location not yet known
No date or location was announced Monday evening, but this unprecedented fight between the two heavyweight stars is expected to take place in November 2026. Netflix should be the broadcaster. Seven months after the road accident which put his career on hold, Anthony Joshua (36 years old) will return to the ring on July 25 in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) against the Albanian Kristian Prenga. Aged 35, Prenga has a record of 20 victories, all by knockout, for only one defeat, but he has never put on gloves against an opponent of the caliber of the 2012 Olympic champion.
Joshua, for his part, has 29 victories, including 26 before the limit, and four defeats, the last of which in September 2024 against his compatriot Daniel Dubois. He fought his last fight in December 2025 against YouTuber Jake Paul, KO in the sixth round. The former world heavyweight champion suffered a road accident a few days later in Nigeria, in which he was slightly injured, and which was fatal to two of his relatives.
Joshua “took time to rebuild himself”
“It’s no secret that I took time to rebuild and consolidate myself in order to be ready to get back into the ring, and today begins the new stage of this journey,” he commented on Monday in a press release from the organizers. I can’t wait to get back to competition and pick up right where I left off. » His fight against Prenga will therefore serve as preparation for the long-awaited clash against his compatriot and former heavyweight world champion, Tyson Fury (37 years old).
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The latter, for his part, made a successful comeback by dominating the Russian Arslanbek Makhmudov on April 11 in London. He had not fought for fifteen months after announcing his retirement. The negotiations are now complete. After a decade of avoiding each other, as well as several failed attempts to conclude a clash, these two boxing phenomena will finally face each other in a fight that Tyson Fury himself called the “Battle of Britain”.
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