{"id":97523,"date":"2026-07-15T03:23:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T03:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/anthony-joshua-undercard-gets-two-world-title-fights-featuring-british-stars\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T03:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T03:23:29","slug":"anthony-joshua-undercard-gets-two-world-title-fights-featuring-british-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/anthony-joshua-undercard-gets-two-world-title-fights-featuring-british-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua undercard gets two world-title fights featuring British stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two world-title fights have been added to the undercard of Anthony Joshua<\/a>\u2019s next bout, as the British heavyweight faces Kristian Prenga on 25 July<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Joshua will take on Prenga in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia<\/a>, in a warm-up fight for his long-awaited clash with Tyson Fury<\/a>, which will take place at an as-yet-unknown date \u2013 potentially at Wembley Stadium in London.<\/p>\n

Joshua, 36, will fight Albanian Prenga one night after Fury\u2019s own warm-up bout, a contest with Mariusz Wach in Thailand<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Hamzah Sheeraz in action in May (Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And Joshua vs Prenga has solid support in the form of two world-title fights at the Jeddah Superdome, as Hamzah Sheeraz<\/a> and Josh Kelly<\/a> star on the undercard.<\/p>\n

Sheeraz, 27, will defend the WBO super-middleweight title against Simon Zachenhuber, having won the vacant belt in his most-recent outing \u2013 a second-round stoppage of Alem Begic in May, on the undercard of Oleksandr Usyk\u2019s victory over Rico Verhoeven at the pyramids of Giza in Egypt.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, 32-year-old Kelly puts the IBF super-welterweight belt on the line against Ireland\u2019s Caoimhin Agyarko, having also picked up the gold in his latest outing \u2013 a hard-fought decision over Bakhram Murtazaliev in January.<\/p>\n

Sheeraz will enter his fight with an unbeaten record of 23-0-1 (19 KOs), while Germany\u2019s Zachenhuber, 28, is 29-1 (18 KOs). <\/p>\n

Agyarko, 29, is also unbeaten at 18-0 (7 KOs), while Kelly\u2019s record stands at 18-1 (9 KOs).<\/p>\n

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Josh Kelly after a 2025 win in Newcastle (Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Joshua\u2019s own fight will be his first since a December car crash, which left him injured and claimed the lives of two of his teammates<\/a>. The accident in Nigeria occurred just days after \u201cAJ\u201d stopped YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in Miami.<\/p>\n

Joshua is expected to face Fury, a fellow former two-time world heavyweight champion, twice over the next year. Saudi matchmaker Turki Alalshikh has said Wembley could host the first of those showdowns before the end of 2025, but on one condition: ring walks for the main event take place at 2am BST<\/a>, to ensure a bigger global audience.<\/p>\n

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Two world-title fights have been added to the undercard of Anthony Joshua\u2019s next bout, as the British heavyweight faces Kristian Prenga on 25 July. Joshua will take on Prenga in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in a warm-up fight for his long-awaited clash with Tyson Fury, which will take place at an as-yet-unknown date \u2013 potentially at Wembley […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8524,595,16943,375,796,5054,76,24806,29889],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}