Derek Chisora ​​has predicted that Anthony Joshua will knock out Tyson Fury inside four rounds when the two Britons finally meet, accusing Fury of jealousy over Joshua’s greater commercial pull ahead of their all-British heavyweight showdown, PUNCH Sports Extra reports.

Chisora, who has faced Fury three times and has consistently backed Joshua in the rivalry, told Sun Sport that he expects a swift and decisive finish when the pair eventually share a ring, most likely in November.

“Tyson can say whatever he wants to say, but he is going to talk so much crap. ‘AJ’ is having a warm-up fight, he has been through a lot. It is in Saudi because the war is done, so we are going to Saudi now for Riyadh Season,” Chisora ​​said.

“The problem with Tyson is that he is jealous, because ‘AJ’ will do more numbers, more viewers, than he did in his fight on Netflix. This is simple maths. He’s going to come in there and talk crap, he can talk so much crap, but at the end of the day, I say this now — Tyson and AJ? AJ will knock him out in four rounds.”

Joshua headlines a Riyadh card on July 25 against Albanian heavyweight Kristian Prenga, his first fight against a recognized boxer since 2023 if one sets aside his stoppage of YouTube personality Jake Paul in December 2025.

Fury, who returned to winning ways in April with a points victory over Russian powerhouse Arslanbek Makhmudov at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, is also expected to take a warm-up fight in August before the Joshua showdown.

Both fighters need to come through their respective tune-up bouts for the blockbuster clash to proceed, with promoters Eddie Hearn and Frank Warren both stating the fight will be called off if either man suffers a defeat before hand.

Former WBC heavyweight world champion Frank Bruno has shared his thoughts ahead of the planned ‘Battle of Britain’ between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury later this year, in what is expected to be the biggest clash in the history of British boxing.

Bruno looked set to be the man to break Britain’s heavyweight hoodoo, with the United Kingdom not producing a champion in the division during the 20th century, at the point when ‘True Brit’ was in serious contention during the 1980’s.

However, Bruno was instead knocked out by Tim Witherspoon and Mike Tyson in two title challenges, before Lennox Lewis became the nation’s first heavyweight world champion since Bob Fitzsimmons in 1899, when he was elevated to champion in 1992.

The following year, Lewis and Bruno met deemed in a showdown billed as ‘The Battle of Britain’, as Bruno came up short in a third world title challenge, but eventually got his hands on the heavyweight crown in 1995.

That duo kickstarted a new era, with a plethora of Briton’s heavyweights becoming world champion in the years that have followed. Now, 33 years on from Lewis-Bruno, a duo of two-time rulers are poised to collide in a blockbuster at Wembley Stadium and Bruno told Seconds Out that Joshua’s mentality will prove decisive.

Anthony Joshua has been hailed by Eddie Hearn ahead of his return to the boxing ring.

The former heavyweight world champion is set to make his comeback in July. His return will come just seven months after Joshua was involved in a fatal car crash in Nigeria.

The accident, which occurred in December, claimed the lives of two members of his team.

Joshua is now scheduled to fight Kristian Prenga in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on July 25.

The 36-year-old is then set to take on Tyson Fury in a long-awaited all-British bout later this year.

Ahead of his clash with Prenga, Hearn has labelled Joshua’s return the ‘ultimate comeback’.

Speaking to BBC Sport, the promoter explained, “We also know the risk of this is everything that he’s coming back from

“They’re calling this a comeback. People might think that’s quite strange because it’s only six months after he last fought, but it’s actually the ultimate comeback.

“It’s the comeback from the deepest of lows. Not just mentally and emotionally but physically as well.

“The injuries that he sustained in that crash, a lot of people would never fight again, and I think the strength that he has shown is quite incredible.”

Prenga boasts a 20-1 record as a professional, with the Albanian unbeaten for nine years.

The two-time heavyweight world champion defeated YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in December.

Paul was stopped in the sixth round in Miami as Joshua bounced back from his IBF title bout loss to Daniel Dubois in September 2024.

Joshua’s fight against Prenga will serve as preparation for taking on Fury later this year.

Hearn added, “There is a lot of pressure going into this fight, but there’s also a lot of questions to be answered.

“Physically, mentally, fighting again at all, and that’s why it’s needed.

“We want the best Anthony Joshua against Tyson Fury. We don’t want a guy that, ‘maybe he should’ve had a warm-up fight, he wasn’t quite ready’.

“We want to be 100 per cent ready for that fight and, if he is, he’ll beat him, and he’ll knock him out.”

Robert Garcia, who trained Anthony Joshua for his rematch against Oleksandr Usyk, has predicted that Joshua will knock Tyson Fury out cold in their anticipated heavyweight showdown, provided the British fighter arrives mentally ready.

Garcia, speaking with ESNEWS, said Joshua possesses both the skill and the power to beat Fury, pointing to his right hand as the decisive weapon in the contest.

“If AJ is mentally ready, I think that AJ has the skills and the power to win. He has the right hand to knock him out, but he has got to be mentally and physically 100 per cent. Physically, I know that he is always ready — AJ is always in shape. He trains hard and was dedicated when I was with him,” Garcia said.

He cautioned, however, that Fury’s unpredictability made him a persistent threat regardless of his conditioning.

The former trainer was unambiguous about how the fight ends if Joshua connects cleanly.

“With that right hand, if AJ lands, he will knock him out cold. And he gets hit with a lot of right hands,” he said.

Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury are projected to earn approximately $100 million (£75m–£100m+) each for their single, long-awaited heavyweight showdown.

This fight is considered the biggest in British boxing history, likely to be staged in the Middle East with a 50-50 purse split for the first fight.

The fight will hold in the fourth quarter of 2026 with the announcement coming from Saudi power broker Turki Alalshikh on Monday afternoon.

After several false starts, most notably in 2021 when the two men both signed a two-fight deal only to have the plan scuppered in a courtroom by Deontay Wilder, there are no longer any barriers.

You would be hard pressed to argue this fight is not happening five years too late – back then both Fury (35-2-1) and Joshua (29-4) were at the peak of their powers and both held world heavyweight titles. Then it would have been an absolute undisputed humdinger for all the marbles.

Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury are projected to earn approximately $100 million (£75m–£100m+) each for their single, long-awaited heavyweight showdown.

This fight is considered the biggest in British boxing history, likely to be staged in the Middle East with a 50-50 purse split for the first fight.

The fight will hold in the fourth quarter of 2026 with the announcement coming from Saudi power broker Turki Alalshikh on Monday afternoon.

After several false starts, most notably in 2021 when the two men both signed a two-fight deal only to have the plan scuppered in a courtroom by Deontay Wilder, there are no longer any barriers.

You would be hard pressed to argue this fight is not happening five years too late – back then both Fury (35-2-1) and Joshua (29-4) were at the peak of their powers and both held world heavyweight titles. Then it would have been an absolute undisputed humdinger for all the marbles.

“The Gypsy King” has earned an absolute fortune and the right to spend a happy retirement on the Isle of Man with wife Paris and their seven children. There was only one bout, which had enough meat to tempt him back to the table – that long-awaited Joshua showdown.

For AJ too this is the perfect retirement plan, it comes hot on the heels of his £50million payday for knocking out YouTuber Jake Paul.

Joshua of course has had other issues to deal with in recent months – notably the tragic car crash, which claimed the lives of two of his closest friends and team members in Nigeria in December. AJ would escape relatively unharmed from a physical perspective, but who can know the mental scars which may remain.

AJ will himself have a warmup fight ahead of his meeting with Fury, and his team have taken no chances with the choice of opponent. He will face little-known Albanian Kristian Prenga (20-1) in Riyadh on July 25.

Make no mistake, Joshua vs Prenga is not intended to be a stiff test for AJ, it is a tune-up with little risk, this is no time to fumble that enormous bag.

Fury is a slight 4/7 favourite with AJ a 7/5 underdog as that massive showdown looms later this year and it is a fight laced with danger for both men.

Joshua was a defensive disaster waiting to happen when he was blasted out of Wembley Stadium by Daniel Dubois in his last major heavyweight outing in September 2024. Fury has lost two of his last three fights against the Ukrainian master Oleksandr Usyk.

Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua finally have a real target window. The long-delayed British heavyweight fight is reportedly set for late 2026, but Joshua first has to get through Kristian Prenga, on July 25, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

According to Ring Magazine, Joshua will face Prenga at an event billed as “The Comeback,” before moving toward Fury in the fourth quarter of the year. Saudi boxing figure Turki Alalshikh, also pushed the bigger news on X, writing, “To my friends in Great Britain, it’s happening. It’s signed.”

Joshua enters the Prenga fight at 29-4. He is an Olympic gold medalist for Great Britain and a former two-time unified heavyweight champion, but the last few years have been rough terrain. He lost to Daniel Dubois in September 2024, knocked out former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou earlier that year, and beat Otto Wallin in 2023.

Prenga is not the name fans were waiting for, but the risk is obvious enough. The Albanian heavyweight is 17-1 and has won 13 straight fights by knockout or TKO. Joshua should be the clear A-side, but heavyweight boxing has a cruel sense of humour when someone looks too far ahead.

Fury brings his own messy road into this. He beat Wladimir Klitschko in 2015 to become unified heavyweight champion, later built his defining trilogy with Deontay Wilder, then lost twice to Oleksandr Usyk in 2024. After another retirement turn, Fury came back on April 11 and beat Arslanbek Makhmudov by wide decision in London.

That is why this fight still matters even after years of delays. Fury and Joshua were the two biggest British heavyweight stars of their era, yet belts, losses, rematches, retirements, and boxing politics kept pushing them apart. Now the door is open again, but Joshua cannot trip over Prenga on the way in.

If AJ wins in July, Fury vs. Joshua becomes the late-2026 monster fight boxing has been teasing forever. If he loses, the whole thing goes back into the heavyweight swamp, and nobody needs another chapter of that nonsense.

David Price suspects one fighter has regressed more than the other as Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua inch closer towards their long-awaited showdown.

While an official announcement is yet to emerge, the pair are nonetheless expected to lock horns in November, as per the terms of Joshua’s proposed two-fight contract.

This deal was offered by Turki Alalshikh ahead of Fury’s comeback fight, which saw ‘The Gypsy King’ unanimously outpoint Arslanbek Makhmudov earlier this month.

For Joshua, though, it appears there are still several I’s to dot and T’s to cross before he agrees to enter a comeback fight of his own.

Following the tragic car crash that took the lives of his two close friends in December, ‘AJ’ has not fought since engineering a sixth-round finish against Jake Paul that same month.

As a result, the 36-year-old is due to enter a warm-up fight in July, by which time he is expected to have fully healed from the physical injuries he sustained in Nigeria.

According to Olympic bronze medallist Price, however, there is a chance that Joshua has not completely recovered from his fifth-round stoppage defeat to Daniel Dubois in September 2024.

Speaking with Pro Boxing Fans, Price explained that this could put the Londoner in a vulnerable position against Fury, whose last elite-level contest saw him lose a unanimous decision to Oleksandr Usyk in December 2024.

Anthony Joshua is in search for a July opponent in order to best prepare him for a proposed showdown with Tyson Fury in November.

Fury returned to the heavyweight scene after a 16-month layoff, outboxing Russian powerhouse Arslanbek Makhmudov in a decision win at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to score a first victory since 2023.

In the aftermath, ‘The Gypsy King’ piled pressure onto ‘AJ’, demanding that he signs to fight him next, hoping to disrupt Joshua’s plans for an outing against an alternate foe this summer.

However, the Watford-born operator refused to dance to Fury’s tune and seems poised to stick to his original plan – fight in a ‘warm-up’ in three months’ time before a long-awaited meeting with ‘The Gypsy King’ towards the end of 2026.

As a result, there are a host of heavyweights hoping to secure a lucrative affair with Joshua, whose only fight since a devastating 2024 defeat to Daniel Dubois came against YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul last December.

In the aftermath, ‘The Gypsy King’ piled pressure onto ‘AJ’, demanding that he signs to fight him next, hoping to disrupt Joshua’s plans for an outing against an alternate foe this summer.

However, the Watford-born operator refused to dance to Fury’s tune and seems poised to stick to his original plan – fight in a ‘warm-up’ in three months’ time before a long-awaited meeting with ‘The Gypsy King’ towards the end of 2026.

As a result, there are a host of heavyweights hoping to secure a lucrative affair with Joshua, whose only fight since a devastating 2024 defeat to Daniel Dubois came against YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul last December.