Overview
- Promoters said the British heavyweights signed to fight later this year, a deal Eddie Hearn announced Monday, with multiple reports pointing to Netflix as the streamer.
- Joshua will face Albania’s Kristian Prenga on July 25 in Riyadh in a tune-up arranged after a December car crash in Nigeria that killed two of his friends.
- Frank Warren warned that a loss to Prenga would “kill” plans for Fury–Joshua and said Fury may take an interim fight because he wants to stay busy.
- Dates around October or November are under discussion, and Warren said Wembley Stadium is the preferred venue even as Saudi backers keep an overseas option open.
- Both men are former two-time champions now viewed as past their title peaks, and the event is being packaged as a stadium spectacle funded by Saudi organizers and pushed by streaming demand.