Anthony Joshua v Kristian Prenga

They are completely comparable

 

Did Regis have a car accident?

And it's a bit telling that you refuse to address the points I made regarding AJ.

 

Losing to a journeyman in Prenga would surely be enough to ensure that AJ V Fury would be pointless?

 

Not telling at all

I'm just too busy to type a long post right now

I think my history shows I'm not afraid to debate

 

It was pointless after the Dubois fight

 

If its not a mandatory, it's normally a voluntary defence, which normally means they were not in line anyways

 

I get scraping the bottom of the barrel: AJ hasn't fought a boxer since 2024, when he was demolished in 5 rounds. He's been in a potentially highly traumatising lethal car crash. He needs a soft touch as anyone in the top 20 could be risk at this point.

But why this guy? Surely AJ could fight a 40+ Joyce, or Yoka, or Hughie, or Whyte, or even Johnny Fisher. These are at least "name" opponents with something going for them. What is the point in fighting an unknown Albanian who isn't even fit to be a sparring partner? Why is this bout taking place?

 

AJ and his just don't know what he has left
Confidence is low

Plus Turki won't want any kind6of riskier fight to potentially ruin his Netflix show

 

Because there is no risk of losing against Prenga.

 

rematch clause ? lmfao
if he loses he should retire immediately

 

Fair enough mate.

 

That's not true though, because non-mandatory fighters still need to work their way up the ladder. It's just harder when some fighters get the advantage of a second life where others don't.

 

I know this sounds ridiculous but this could be another Khan vs Prescott.

Prescott was virtually an unknown but had a high KO ratio.

Joshua will probably not be that confident right now especially against a fighter with a high KO ratio.

I don't know anything about this guy but I wouldn't be confident of Joshua winning at all right now.

Especially when the last big puncher Joshua fought flattened him very easily.

 

I took a deeper dive into Prenga, I'll repost what I put on the heavy/cruiser thread

Watched a few of his fights....

Santander Silgado - not much to look at, feeling out round until Prenga obliterates Silgado with a left hook. Silgado has taken a few naps in the first round before and after

Brandon Carmack- honestly look at Prenga signaling twice to Carmack, then land two whatever punches to the body, Carmack overacts his ass off. I don't know, looks like a dive.

Juan torres: again torres is barely in any shape to fight, a right hand that goes over his head (seriously) drops Torres and the ref waves it off in round 2.

Joey Dawejko: the best name on his resume, which is a usually durable journeyman. Dawejko had just lost via DQ to Torrez jr like a month before this and retired but came out of his short loved retirement to fight Prenga. Not much to say in this, Prenga going into round 5 looked to stay composed, the pace was slow but Prenga was winning the rounds. End comes when Dawejko lands a left to Prengas body, injures himself and can't continue. Should that go to the cards since no punch was landed? I don't know but it's over by KO

I tried to watch but couldn't find his fight vs a guy named Colliander from 2018, I saw highlights and he KOd Colliander after a right to the jaw. Only wanted to see this because strangely enough Colliander has two wins over former 1980s cruiserweight WBA champion Robert Daniels. Odd stuff

What did I learn? Well even the worst version of AJ is miles ahead of anything Prenga has seen in the pros.With the exception of Dawejko the opponents I saw were out of shape, looking to collapse, or just quit from exhaustion/ the first punch. So I think Prenga is in for a real rude awakening fighting uber drivers and mcDonalds workers to someone who actually has a full fight camp and has skills. He also seemed to be getting tagged by everyone so that defense maybe not the best

Now on the positive side if he's really 6'5 he's not a blob, he comes into fights in fighting shape by the looks of it. When the pressure is on who knows how good his cardio will be but he appeared to do fine against Dawejko going into 5. He does throw a 1-2 with the cross being deceptively quick and he does go to the body. He likes to throw a 4-3 to the body. Doesn't look like a complete moron in the ring.

All that being said, he has a punchers chance I guess but he really is jumping straight into the big leagues after spending his entire career bludgeoning guys in a low level rec center (figuratively but also a little literally). I think AJ is going to win his KO7. I think this guy can hang around a while.

 

It's true

Your telling me every voluntary defence is highly ranked?