Tyson Fury will fight Poland’s Mariusz Wach in Thailand on 24 July as a warm-up for a potential all-British encounter with Anthony Joshua.
Fury’s fight in Pattaya – where the 37-year-old trains – will be a day before Joshua makes his comeback on 25 July against Kristian Prenga in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – his first fight since being involved in a car crash that killed two of his friends in Nigeria in December 2025.
Both Fury and Joshua, 36, need to win their fights to set up a meeting between the two former world champions, which is scheduled to happen in 2026.
Wach, 46, has a record of 39 wins from 51 fights, 20 by knockout.
But the Pole has won just three of his past 10 bouts and suffered a second-round stoppage to Britain’s Moses Itauma in a WBO Intercontinental heavyweight title fight in July 2024.
He has been defeated by English boxers Dillian Whyte in 2019 and Frazer Clarke four years later.
Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn announced in April that the London 2012 Olympic gold medallist had signed to fight Fury.
That announcement came after Fury had made his return from a 15-month retirement with a points win over Russia’s Arslanbek Makhmudov at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
After that victory, Fury immediately called out Joshua, who was ringside, and the pair exchanged words with the Morecambe fighter attempting to goad his rival into the ring.
There has been growing speculation that their fight could be held in the United States because of the involvement of Saudi powerbroker Turki Alalshikh.
But last week Hearn told BBC Sport that Joshua and Fury are contractually committed to staging their fight in the UK.
Fury had previously hinted that his interim fight would take place in Dublin on 1 August.
