Anthony Joshua fights tonight in Jeddah — the ring-walk time, the price, and what it is really for

Anthony Joshua is back tonight, against Kristian Prenga, at the Jeddah Superdome in Saudi Arabia, on a card the promotion has called "The Comeback."

The practical answers first, because that is what you came for:

• Main card: started 1 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. BST.
• Main-event ring walks: approximately 5:45 p.m. ET / 10:45 p.m. BST.
• Where: DAZN pay-per-view — $59.99 in the US, £19.99 in the UK, included for DAZN Ultimate subscribers.

One caveat that every listing including this one should carry in bold: ring-walk times are estimates. A card full of quick stoppages pulls the main event forward; a card that goes the distance pushes it back. If you care about seeing the walk, be in front of a screen half an hour early.

The full running order is below.

Time Your Evening Around The Card

Joshua vs Prenga: card times, ring walks and what it costs to watch

The published running order for Anthony Joshua's return against Kristian Prenga in Jeddah — card start, approximate main-event ring walk, and the pay-per-view price in the US and UK.

Times are Eastern (ET) with British Summer Time (BST) alongside. Saudi Arabia is UTC+3, so the main event lands in the small hours locally. Ring-walk times are approximate and move with the undercard.

1. Event · Friday, July 24

   Weigh-in

   Both fighters made weight the day before the card, as reported in fight-week coverage.

2. Event · Saturday, July 25 — 1:00 p.m. ET / 6:00 p.m. BST

   Main card begins

   The pay-per-view card opens. Undercard bouts run from here until the main event.

3. Event · Saturday, July 25 — approx. 5:45 p.m. ET / 10:45 p.m. BST

   Joshua vs Prenga ring walks (approximate)

   The main event. Treat this as a target, not a guarantee — quick stoppages earlier on the card pull it forward, long fights push it back. Be in place 30 minutes early.

4. Event · Fourth quarter, 2026

   Tyson Fury fight, reported as signed

   The reason this bout exists. Reporting describes an all-British heavyweight fight with Fury as agreed for Q4 2026. No date or venue has been announced.

How this is calculated

Times are those published by the broadcaster and by fight-week reporting, converted to Eastern time and British Summer Time as reported. Ring-walk entries are marked as approximate because they are: a card that ends early moves the main event forward and a card that runs long pushes it back, and no listing anywhere can promise otherwise. Prices are the published pay-per-view rates at the time of writing.

Data as of July 24, 2026 · verified July 24, 2026 · v1

Assumptions, limitations & sources

Assumptions

• · Card times are as published for July 25, 2026 and reflect the broadcaster's schedule rather than a venue confirmation.
• · Ring-walk times assume the undercard runs roughly to expectation.

Limitations

• · Ring walks are estimates. Undercard stoppages routinely move a main event by half an hour in either direction.
• · Pay-per-view pricing and availability differ by country, and by whether you already subscribe to the service.
• · This is a schedule, not a result. Nothing here reports what happened in the fight.

Sources

• Joshua vs Prenga: start time, ring walks and weigh-in results — Forbes, checked July 24, 2026
• How to watch Joshua vs Prenga: start time, PPV price, streaming, full lineup — Bad Left Hook, checked July 24, 2026
• Joshua vs Prenga pay-per-view price — DAZN, checked July 24, 2026
• Joshua will return in a comeback fight on July 25 ahead of a showdown with Tyson Fury — Sky Sports, checked July 24, 2026

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What this fight actually is

Be honest about the shape of the night: this is a tune-up, and everybody involved has said so in more or less those words.

The reason it is happening is the fight after it. Sky Sports reported the all-British heavyweight bout with Tyson Fury as "signed, sealed and delivered" for the fourth quarter of 2026. Joshua needed a competitive night, a payday and a round or two of live rounds first. Prenga is the opponent for that job.

Which is not the same as saying Prenga is nobody.

The opponent, taken seriously for a second

Kristian Prenga is 20-1 — with 20 knockouts.

Read that again. Every win, by stoppage. Nobody has heard the final bell against him, which means the one thing you can say about him with confidence is that he punches hard enough to end a fight if he lands.

The obvious counter is the quality of the opposition, and that is fair — records like that are usually built carefully. But the specific risk in a tune-up against a 100%-knockout puncher is not that he outboxes Joshua over twelve rounds. It is that one shot lands early on a fighter who has not been in a ring in a while, and a signed nine-figure fight evaporates on a Saturday in July.

That is why these nights are less routine than they look, and why promoters lose sleep over them.

The questions readers are asking

What time is Anthony Joshua's ring walk? Approximately 5:45 p.m. ET / 10:45 p.m. BST — an estimate that moves with the undercard.

How can I watch it? DAZN pay-per-view. $59.99 in the US, £19.99 in the UK, and included if you already have DAZN Ultimate.

Is there a free way to watch? Not legitimately in the US or UK. DAZN has promoted bundle offers that fold the PPV into a subscription tier — that is a cheaper route, not a free one.

Where is the fight? The Jeddah Superdome in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Worth noting that when the bout was first announced in June, some reporting placed it in Riyadh; the venue confirmed for fight week is Jeddah.

Who is Kristian Prenga? A heavyweight with a 20-1 record and 20 knockouts. All of his wins have come inside the distance.

Is the Tyson Fury fight actually happening? It has been reported as signed for Q4 2026, with no date or venue announced. "Signed" and "scheduled" are different things in boxing, and the gap between them has swallowed this particular matchup before.

Why is Joshua fighting in Saudi Arabia again? Because that is where the money for heavyweight boxing has been for several years now. It is the reason the sport's biggest nights happen at hours that suit neither British nor American television.

What happens if Joshua loses? The Fury fight as currently framed does not survive it in any recognisable form. That is the whole risk of a tune-up.

What to watch for

Not the result — the rounds. A returning heavyweight fighting a knockout-or-nothing opponent has two ways to win, and they mean opposite things. An early stoppage tells you very little except that Prenga's chin is what his one loss suggested. Four or five competent rounds, with Joshua working behind a jab and taking a shot cleanly, is the thing his corner actually wants before December.

We will update with the result.