{"id":30122,"date":"2026-05-28T07:33:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/tyson-fury-hints-at-august-fight-in-dublin\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T07:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:33:59","slug":"tyson-fury-hints-at-august-fight-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/tyson-fury-hints-at-august-fight-in-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury hints at August fight in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Tyson Fury has hinted that he plans to fight again in Dublin on 1 August in a post on social media.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two-time heavyweight champion of the world posted the caption &#8220;Let&#8217;s go August 1, Dublin, Ireland&#8221; alongside a video of him training in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fury&#8217;s promoter Frank Warren is staging a fight night in the capital of the Republic of Ireland on that date, with the light-welterweight IBO title fight between Pierce O&#8217;Leary and Mark Chamberlain set for the city&#8217;s 3Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Official confirmation of the 37-year-old&#8217;s involvement on the card has yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An August fight could serve as a warm-up for the much-anticipated meeting between Fury and Anthony Joshua.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Joshua, 36, returns to action on 26 July against unknown Albanian Kristian Prenga for the first time since being involved in a car crash that killed two of his friends in Nigeria in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The meeting between the two former world champions is set to happen in 2026, with Joshua&#8217;s promoter Eddie Hearn announcing in April that the London 2012 Olympic gold medallist had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cj373dln1llo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">signed to fight Fury.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That announcement came after Fury had made his return from a 15-month retirement with a points win over Russia&#8217;s Arslanbek Makhmudov at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c4g4y00ej10o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyson Fury has hinted that he plans to fight again in Dublin on 1 August in a post on social media. The two-time heavyweight champion of the world posted the caption &#8220;Let&#8217;s go August 1, Dublin, Ireland&#8221; alongside a video of him training in Thailand. Fury&#8217;s promoter Frank Warren is staging a fight night in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30124,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30122\/revisions\/30124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}