Who will Anthony Joshua 🇬🇧 fight next?
Short answer
Anthony Joshua is booked to fight Tyson Fury🇬🇧 on Fri 11 Dec 2026 at Principality Stadium, Cardiff.
Confidence: High · Updated (UAE time)
Forecast: likely next opponents NextSmash estimate
Each percentage is the estimated chance of being Anthony Joshua's next opponent. These are not chances of winning. The booked fight is official, and the rest covers a late change of opponent.
- 92%chance next opponentAnthony Joshua beat Kristian Prenga on 25 Jul 2026 (KO, round 2). Officially announced and streamed live on Netflix. Promoted with Turki Alalshikh's The Ring and Dana White.11 Dec 2026 · Principality Stadium, Cardiff
Field / other: 8%. This covers everyone not listed above.
- Last fight
- Win vs Kristian Prenga · KO, round 2 · 25 Jul 2026
- Confidence
- High (High = officially booked · Medium = credible report, sanctioning-body order, talks or a boxer's own claim · Low = model only)
- Boxing factors
- Mandatory challengers, vacated belts, rematch clauses, Riyadh Season / The Ring events, promoter and network ties, and crossover fights
- Last updated
- (UAE time)
Rankings note: belts are labelled by the body that awards them (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO or The Ring). The order of boxers on these pages is a NextSmash list, not an official ranking.
Anthony Joshua: frequently asked questions
When is Anthony Joshua's next fight?
Anthony Joshua is booked to fight Tyson Fury on Fri 11 Dec 2026 at Principality Stadium, Cardiff. Source: BBC Sport: Fury v Joshua announced for 11 December in Cardiff.
Who did Anthony Joshua fight last?
Anthony Joshua beat Kristian Prenga on 25 Jul 2026 (KO, round 2). Source: Wikipedia.
Who is Anthony Joshua likely to fight next?
NextSmash estimate of the next opponent: Tyson Fury (92%), field / other 8%. These are chances of being the next opponent, not chances of winning. Updated 2 Oct 2026.
What is Anthony Joshua's record?
30–4 (wins–losses–draws, no-contests in brackets) after the fight on 25 Jul 2026, as listed on Wikipedia.
Other heavyweight boxers
- Agit Kabayel🇩🇪 · WBC heavyweight · next: Nelson Hysa Booked
- Daniel Dubois🇬🇧 · WBO heavyweight · next: Fabio Wardley Booked
- Filip Hrgović🇭🇷 · IBF heavyweight · next: Frank Sánchez 60%
- Oleksandr Usyk🇺🇦 · The Ring heavyweight · next: Deontay Wilder 60%
- Murat Gassiev🇷🇺 · WBA heavyweight · next: Derek Chisora 10%
- Fabio Wardley🇬🇧 · No world title listed · next: Daniel Dubois Booked
More: Heavyweight belts and next fights · All boxing
Sources
- Wikipedia: Anthony Joshua · record and last fight (revision 1377982754)
- BBC Sport: Fury v Joshua announced for 11 December in Cardiff · 24 Sep 2026
- Netflix Tudum: Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua is official for Dec. 11 · 24 Sep 2026
Percentages are NextSmash estimates from the reports and factors above, not facts and not betting advice. Records and last fights come from Wikipedia. We do not use BoxRec data. Anything we could not verify is left out.