Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua will each fight a low-risk opponent on successive days this weekend, using the bouts as tune-ups for a long-awaited showdown in November that is expected to generate well over $100 million The Guardian.

Fury is first up. He faces Mariusz Wach, a 46-year-old Polish heavyweight journeyman, on Friday night in Pattaya, Thailand. The fight will not be broadcast on any television channel or streaming platform. Fury has stated it will appear only on his Netflix show, At Home with the Furys season three The Guardian. The bout is expected to draw roughly 1,500 attendees, co-promoted by Frank Warren's Queensberry Promotions Sky Sports.

Wach is a name from boxing's deep freeze. He challenged Wladimir Klitschko for a version of the world heavyweight title 14 years ago and did not win a single round. Two years ago, the rising British prospect Moses Itauma stopped Wach in the second round, when Itauma was just 19 The Guardian. The weigh-in took place on Thursday, July 23: Fury scaled 265 lbs, Wach 291 Sky Sports.

Fury has framed the fight around charity. He promised to donate all proceeds to "local starving and homeless children," and the WBC will award him their inaugural Humanitarian title after the bout, according to WBC president Mauricio Sulaimán Jr. The Guardian. Warren, his promoter, said at the fight's announcement: "Boxing is a better place with Tyson Fury in it, so it's fantastic to have him back in action on July 24" Sky Sports.

Joshua follows on Saturday, July 25. He faces Kristian Prenga in Saudi Arabia, with the bout broadcast live worldwide on DAZN Matchroom Boxing. His promoter, Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Sport, has described it as a tune-up designed to build momentum toward the Fury fight BBC Sport. Joshua, now 36, is fighting for the first time since a car crash in December that also claimed the lives of two of his friends. Fury has said those deaths motivated his own return to the ring AP News.

The November showdown between Fury and Joshua is signed, sealed, and delivered — Hearn's words — and set for the fourth quarter of 2026 Yahoo Sports. The contract stipulates a venue in the United Kingdom Boxing Scene, and the fight will be broadcast on Netflix Boxing Insider.

For fans, this weekend is less about the fights themselves and more about what they tell us. Fury outpointed Arslanbek Makhmudov in a unanimous decision in April The Guardian; now he takes on a 46-year-old he should dispatch comfortably. Joshua, returning from a crash that upended his life, needs rounds and rhythm more than a statement knockout. Two heavyweights, two warm-up bouts, one enormous fight on the horizon — and British boxing's long wait for Fury versus Joshua is finally, tangibly, close.