Tyson Fury returns to the ring after his defeat by Oleksandr Usyk as he prepares for a rematch with Anthony Joshua.<\/p>\n
Published On 27 May 202627 May 2026<\/p>\n
Tyson Fury says he plans to return to the ring in Dublin on August 1, one week after fellow former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua makes his comeback.<\/p>\n
The pair are heading for a long-awaited \u201cBattle of Britain\u201d, probably in November, although it appears that both boxers will first have a warm-up fight.<\/p>\n
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Joshua will face unheralded Albanian Kristian Prenga in Riyadh on July 25 in his first bout since being involved in a car crash in Nigeria in December that killed two of his close friends.<\/p>\n
Fury posted a video in an Instagram story showing him back in training in Thailand alongside the caption: \u201cLet\u2019s go August 1, Dublin, Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fight could take a place on a card being put together by veteran promoter Frank Warren in Dublin on that date.<\/p>\n
No opponent has been named although Warren has ruled out Fury fighting Andy Ruiz Jr, who dethroned Joshua as world champion in 2019 before losing the rematch later that year.<\/p>\n
Fury marked his return from a 16-month retirement with a dominant points win over Russia\u2019s Arslanbek Makhmudov in April, after which he immediately called out Joshua, who was present at ringside.<\/p>\n
Rather than face off at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, a verbal exchange followed in which Joshua taunted Fury by declaring: \u201cI\u2019m the landlord. Remember that. You work for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Joshua\u2019s promoter Eddie Hearn has since stated: \u201cSigned, sealed, delivered! AJ v Fury is on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury returns to the ring after his defeat by Oleksandr Usyk as he prepares for a rematch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[120,13,252,667,18,771,523,6],"class_list":["post-50486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-britain","tag-boxing","tag-britain","tag-europe","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-ukraine","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116649917534992890","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}