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Anthony Joshua returns to the ring on Saturday against the relatively unknown Kristian Prenga in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, knowing that victory would set up a long-awaited showdown with Tyson Fury.
Joshua, a two-time world champion and Olympic gold medallist, has won 29 fights - 26 by stoppage - and lost four.
Albanian Prenga enters the fight with an impressive record of his own, having achieved all of his 20 victories with stoppages while suffering only one defeat.
However, the 35-year-old has never faced anyone close to Joshua's level.
Joshua v Prenga - all you need to know After Fury comfortably dispatched Polish veteran Mariusz Wach in Thailand on Friday, can Joshua can come through his own warm-up bout?
This will be Joshua's first fight since he was involved in a car crash in Nigeria that claimed the lives of two close friends, Sina Ghami and Latif 'Latz' Ayodele.
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