Yahoo Sports· 1h ago· 1 min read
No, Anthony Joshua ’s win over Kristian Prenga was not fixed. But his fight with Tyson Fury might be broken beyond repair.
When Joshua cascaded to the canvas inside 20 seconds on Saturday, there was a brief feeling that his super-fight with Fury was collapsing him with. But barely five minutes later, Joshua was laughing off this scare as Prenga’s head snapped against the bottom ropes, leaving the helpless heavyweight to fade back into boxing obscurity as his consciousness faded, too.
Suggestions that the outcome was fixed (and there are a strange number of them) should not be entertained for a second. Every measurement of pain and damage in those chaotic few minutes were real. That should not need explaining.
Anthony Joshua (left) and Tyson Fury in their fights on the last weekend of July (Getty) Yet the narrative of the fight flipped almost as quickly as the narrative around Joshua…
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