Joshua vs Prenga LIVE!
Anthony Joshua fights Kristian Prenga tonight as he looks to take the final step on his decade-long collision course with Tyson Fury. The Gypsy King is expected at ringside in Saudi Arabia on Saturday and we could finally witness a long-awaited face-off between the British heavyweight arch-rivals as they build up to their proposed blockbuster showdown later in 2026. Fury said in a U-turn that he would travel from Thailand, where he brushed aside veteran Mariusz Wach in seven rounds on Friday.
Now the onus is firmly on Joshua to match that performance with an emphatic statement of his own as he fights for the first time since suffering minor injuries as a passenger in a serious car crash in Nigeria that claimed the lives of two close friends and team members in Sina Ghami and Latif ‘Latz’ Ayodele. That tragic accident came just 10 days after Joshua had knocked out Jake Paul in Miami, while it is almost two years now since his last proper competitive bout - a brutal loss to Daniel Dubois at Wembley.
He is an overwhelming favourite to stop little-known Albanian challenger Prenga, though may need to be careful with an opponent who has a reputation as a knockout artist. Follow Joshua vs Prenga live below!
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Jacob Bank vs Pawel August
An excellent first couple of rounds from Bank, who looks a class above August so far.
He is so sharp and smooth, the movement, variety and hand speed is really impressive.
Bank jabs so well to both head and body. He is trying to lure August onto him to let his hands go.
Jacob Bank vs Pawel August
August makes his way to the ring in a balaclava and is still wearing it during final introductions - is there a robbery on the way?
It would be quite a victory if the ‘Polish King’ out of Somerset was able to upset an ascending talent in Bank.
Someone’s 0 has got to go...
Quite a delay before our second fight of the main card, given that first-round stoppage by Nishant Dev against Cesar Diaz.
Oleksandr Usyk has been conducting an off-the-cuff and typically engaging/amusing lengthy interview on DAZN.
Jacob Bank vs Pawel August up next
Next up in Jeddah is unbeaten 19-0 Danish super-middleweight talent Jacob Bank, who meets 18-0 Pawel August, Polish-born but based in Taunton in Somerset for the last two decades.
This contest is being fought at a catchweight of 170lbs, with Bank looking to build further momentum after his stunning late knockout of former IBF world champion William Scull on home soil in January.
He also stopped Namibia’s Paulinus Ndjolonimu in Denmark in April.
August can feel hard done by that the man he outpointed on the Tyson Fury-Arslanbek Makhmudov undercard at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in April - Germany’s Simon Zachenbuber - gets a world title shot later tonight against WBO super-middleweight champion Hamzah Sheeraz.
GettyEddie Hearn: Nishant Dev can 'change boxing forever'
Massive praise from promoter Eddie Hearn for Matchroom talent Nishant Dev, whom he says has the potential to change boxing forever by becoming a huge star in India.
He says Dev can go on to be a world champion and believes a title fight in India would be like nothing we’ve ever seen before in the sport.
No pressure then...
GettyNishant Dev stops Cesar Diaz in first round
Well, that certainly didn’t take long!
A huge statement on such a big platform for Nishant Dev, who stops Cesar Diaz in the first round to move to 7-0 with a fifth professional knockout.
A hopelessly overmatched Diaz was floored three times in quick succession before the fight was swiftly waved off.
Ruthless from a potential future star and an explosive start to our main card in Jeddah.
GettyNishant Dev vs Cesar Diaz
The main card action is now underway in Jeddah.
Our six-fight bill kicks off with unbeaten California-based Indian star Nishant Dev.
The former amateur World Championship bronze medallist looks to move to 7-0 in the professional ranks against Peru’s Cesar Diaz.
GettyAnthony Joshua pays touching tribute to late friends in ring
Tonight’s ring canvas at the Jeddah Superdome features a touching tribute to Anthony Joshua’s close friends and long-time team members Sina Ghami and Latif ‘Latz’ Ayodele, who both died in the tragic car accident in Nigeria in December in which Joshua sustained minor injuries.
Ghami was Joshua’s rehabilitation coach, while Ayodele was his personal trainer.
Joshua had been friends with both men since childhood and he has spoken again this week in the build-up to his first fight since that accident against Kristian Prenga about the pain of their loss and not being ready for it to sink in.
"It's tough, every time I think about it, it hurts,” he told BBC Sport..
"Even talking about it now... pictures… it hurts but I keep my mind occupied you know.
"If I stop, you let it sink in and I'm not ready for it to sink in yet."
The names of Ghami and Ayodele are printed in front of Joshua’s corner on tonight’s ring canvas, along with the words “My Brother’s Keeper”.
Fury vs Joshua super-fight now 'wanted in USA'
Turki Alalshikh apparently now wanting a likely November Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua showdown to take place in the United States presents an obvious couple of problems.
Not only would it be a huge disappointment to see arguably the biggest and most lucrative - if long, long overdue - super-fight in British boxing history not happen in the UK, but Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn has repeatedly said that the deal was previously signed for it to be held here.
He has said more than once that a change of destination would require the whole fight contract to be negotiated again.
Alalshikh had said previously that he wanted it to be in the UK, but potentially overnight with 2am ring walks for a prime-time US television market.
That would require special permission to extend the curfew of Wembley Stadium, with Cardiff’s Principality Stadium - where Joshua has fought twice before - also previously rumoured to be in the hosting mix.
You’d have to imagine that Madison Square Garden would be the ideal venue Stateside, unless they were to rent out a huge outdoor venue like the AT&T Stadium in Dallas.
We’ve also seen some stunning left-field locations for big fights in recent times, such as the Pyramids of Giza for Oleksandr Usyk vs Rico Verhoeven and Times Square in New York for Rolly Romero vs Ryan Garcia.
"We've been told in the last 24 hours that [a fight in America] is what they want,” Matchroom Boxing chief Hearn told DAZN on Friday.
“That doesn't tally up with the contract that we signed. Until we're happy, we expect every point of that contract to be followed.
“I feel like this fight should be taking place in the UK.
"Anthony Joshua insisted that the contract stated that the fight must be in the UK.
"If they want to change the contract, then we have to renegotiate the contract.
“Which, by the way, is not a problem. But it's a conversation we have to have."
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London StandardOleksandr Khyzhniak stops Lenny Patrach in round two
Oleksandr Usyk will have been very pleased indeed with that.
Oleksandr Khyzhniak dominates and stops Lenny Patrach in two rounds to move to 2-0 as a professional.
He sent the Frenchman down initially with a crushing left hook before then raining down a barrage of spiteful blows on the ropes to force the referee to step in.
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