Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua | NETFLIX - Winter 2026

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Attempting to beat Anthony Joshua is a more stylistically difficult fight for Tyson Fury, than Oleksandr Uysk 'there is a reason why many years ago? Tyson Fury avoided Anthony Joshua, and instead chose to fight Deontay Wilder. Who was at that time deemed the more stylistically easier fight to win'.

Note: Anthony Joshua is a proven elite level super heavyweight fighter 'and in my opinion? The only heavyweight of this era, who has both elite level power, and elite level boxing ability. No other heavyweight of this era, has those attributes in combination'.

Oleksandr Uysk is a great boxer skill for skill 'but he does not have elite level punching power'.

Deontay Wilder has elite level punching power 'but he is not technically skill for skill an elite level boxer'.

Anthony Joshua when you analyse him as a fighter 'at his peak and best, is potentially a more complete fighter than Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Uysk'.

The challenge for Anthony Joshua is bringing all those attributes together on fight night 'and executing a performance'.

But when he does? You have all seen what happens 'Anthony Joshua has shared three common opponents with Tyson Fury. And those opponents are, Wladimir Kiltschko, Otto Wallin, and Francis Ngannou'.

Each time, Anthony Joshua has outperformed Tyson Fury 'and beat all of those common opponents either more impressively or conclusively'. Why? Because when Anthony Joshua unleashes his maximum potentially he is a more destructive and better fighter than Tyson Fury'.

Francis Ngannou beat Tyson Fury over 10 rounds 'Anthony Joshua obliterated Ngannou inside 2 rounds'.

Otto Wallin busted up Tyson Fury real good, and pushed him right to the line 'Joshua beat up and forced a stoppage vs. Wallin inside 5 rounds'.

Tyson Fury beat Wladimir Kiltschko in an underwhelming 12 round fight, great win historically but the action of the fight has been completely overrated '17 months later it was Anthony Joshua who stepped up, and beat Wladimir Kiltschko in the greatest heavyweight title fight of the past 25 years. Knocking him out and forcing him to retire'.

To conclude: When and if both Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua fight 'I am strongly backing Joshua to win by knockout or stoppage'.

I still would not be surprised if Tyson Fury manufactures a way to get out of this fight 'all the signs are already there, if? Joshua was such an easy fight, why is he so serious all of the sudden? Tyson Fury is apprehensive' of Anthony Joshua'.

I think Tyson Fury has been forced into this fight via public pressure 'he has not world titles anymore to use to avoid Anthony Joshua. Because that is all he done with his WBC title'.

I would not rate it as the biggest British fight of all-times in terms of historical significance, but it is still a mega fight etc.

[gilgamesh]

I don't think Joshua has a lot of Boxing ability really. Not as much as he has power. He's always had a leaky defense, but he's still powerful and can Crack with both hands and that alone takes you far. No question he hits harder than Fury, but can he land as often as Fury?

[Evander]

They just want to get Fury v Joshua over the line while they can.

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- Nobody but Turki would want Blubber vs Joshua.

AJ has made a vast fortune as a KO artist, but he never had a decent trainer not to mention his injuries in that massive traffic accident. Time for him and Usyk to retire and let the new studs sort out the titles. Hanging on past prime is a losing proposition almost every time.

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I don't think Joshua has a lot of Boxing ability really. Not as much as he has power. He's always had a leaky defense, but he's still powerful and can Crack with both hands and that alone takes you far. No question he hits harder than Fury, but can he land as often as Fury?

In the amateur ranks, Anthony Joshua was a World Championship Silver Medallist and the 2012 Olympic Champion 'Tyson Fury's most notable, and best known achievement in the amateur ranks was being beaten by David Price. Which is no disrespect, because at the time of that fight? David Price was a highly ranked amateur fighter'.

Note: Tyson Fury has been decked and beaten up at all levels in the professional ranks 'Anthony Joshua has only been beaten by World Champions, and decked by fighters of that calibre'.

Yes! He did have a terrible performance vs. Daniel Dubois 'in terms of making unforced errors and technical mistakes. But really in my opinion, that is the only fight where I can discredit his boxing ability'.

In the 24 rounds both Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua fought vs. Oleksandr Uysk 'Joshua from a statistical perspective, arguably performed better than Fury'.

The highest amount of punches Oleksandr Uysk was able to land on each fighter was 179 punches on Tyson Fury and 170 punches on Anthony Joshua 'But? In order to achieve this vs. Anthony Joshua he had to throw almost 300 more punches. Uysk threw over 700 + punches in his rematch vs. Joshua'.

So Oleksandr Uysk was throwing less punches vs. Tyson Fury 'but landing a higher amount as he was vs. Anthony Joshua. Those statistics suggest that Joshua is a far better boxer than many people want to give him credit for at top level'.

I don't think there is any evidence that Tyson Fury is a miles better boxer than Anthony Joshua 'that is why it is stylistically a very difficult fight for Fury. He does not have any of his so called advantages that he had vs. Oleksandr Usyk or Deontay Wilder. He does not outweighed Joshua by 40 to 60 pounds, and he is not the physically stronger fighter in terms of brute strength'.

Me personally I always believed that Oleksandr Uysk 'although he was outweighed by Fury, was still potentially the stronger fighter in terms of brute strength. And he was definitively the better athlete, which was why it was difficult for Fury to fight a big man style fight i.e. like the way Lennox Lewis, Wladimir Kiltscko and Vitali Kiltschko would do at their peak vs. classically physique Heavyweight fighters'.

Those are two attributes which Fury has relied on in his fights vs. Deontay Wilder and Oleksandr Uysk 'that dynamic does not exist in the fight vs. Anthony Joshua'.

To conclude: Anthony Joshua is a Super Heavyweight fighter 'with proven elite level power, and elite level boxing ability. If you go through his entire career, 90 to 95% of the fighters he has fought? Have been unable to win rounds vs. him consistently. Kiltschko, Ruiz I, Uysk, Dubois. Those are the only fighters who have been able to win round vs. Anthony Joshua'.

Joshua was severely concussed vs. Ruiz Junior I, and even Dubois 'and he was still able to win rounds, and stay in the fight'.

We have seen Tyson Fury get pushed right to the line at domestic level, European level, and World level time and time again 'but people want to overlook it''.

He was beaten by Francis Ngannou in a boxing match 'he was pushed to the line by Otto Wallin in a boxing match. He has been decked and beating up, at domestic, European and World level. Those are the facts'.

In my opinion Anthony Joshua has always been stylistically the most difficult fight for Tyson Fury at heavyweight during his career 'Tyson Fury and his team know this, that is why they are preparing with another fight before than collide with Anthony Joshua' etc.

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Anthony Joshua-Tyson Fury location: 'The UK is a front runner'

The proposed battle between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury is being teed up to land in Britain in November, according to Eddie Hearn. America, however, could yet play host.

Contracts have finally been signed for the long-awaited showdown but there are still obstacles to clear. Joshua, 29-4 (26 KOs), must first defeat Kristian Prenga on July 25 and Fury, though nothing is yet finalised, is also hoping to have a fight in the interim. The former heavyweight champion, who returned to action in April with a lopsided 12-round points victory over Arslanbek Makhmudov to take his record to 35-2-1 (24 KOs), had previously indicated he would appear on Queensberry's August 1 event in Dublin.

Should both win their respective bouts they would set up a huge contest in November. The two Britons have teased their rivalry for nearly a decade.

Turki Alalshikh, the Saudi paymaster who persuaded both to at last put pen to paper, will have full control over where the contest takes place. Wembley Stadium would be the obvious pick considering the size of the event involving two Englishman, but Hearn revealed earlier this week that the US, due to Britain's erratic climate, is also in play for the bout.

“Of course the UK is a front runner, but it is in November as well,” Hearn told Boxing Scene. “And the fight will take place wherever Turki Alalshikh chooses for the fight to take place, he's the one covering the bill so it's up to him. We would all love the fight to take place in the UK. If it's in America, no problem, but I think they're the two likely countries.”

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Dana's a wife beater, I have got zero time for the guy.

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Dana White: 'Ask Eddie Hearn if he knows what I know about Tyson Fury-Anthony Joshua'

From Don King and Bob Arum going at it for years and Eddie Hearn and allegedly following suit, the hot new promoter feud is between Hearn and Zuffa Boxing boss Dana White.

Following the bruising battle between Chris Billam-Smith and Ryan Rozicki in Bournemouth, White addressed some media questions about Hearn, who had a show on at the same time in Sheffield topped by Josh Padley-Aqib Fiaz.

The back-and-forth through the media has become more intense, and one significant discrepancy between the sides is who will promote the proposed fight between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury.

Both Warren and Hearn have said White will not be involved. But the UFC boss maintains he will promote it.

“Have they announced where that fight is? No. I know where it is,” White said, when pressed by ProBoxing Fans.

“Watch what happens over the next 30 days.”

“You think that I would publicly lie and then look like a fornicating idiot in front of everybody? So do you believe that? Do you believe that I would? What would be the point of that? ‘I was lying, everybody!’ ‘I got you, right?’ What would be the point of that? Call Eddie right now and ask him if he knows where the fight is. Call Eddie and ask him who negotiated the contract for the fight. It wasn’t him.”

Hearn has started managing UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall, and has said he won’t let Aspinall fight under the terms of his current contract.

“Let’s see how it all happens,” White said. “I mean, if Eddie’s not going to let his fighter fight, what are you going to do? You can’t make anybody fight. You can’t force anybody to fight. You have to want to fight. So we’ll see how it plays out. Eddie, who apparently, you know, [Conor] Benn [who left Hearn’s Matchroom for Zuffa] was his best friend. Eddie’s been crying, literally crying for weeks, ‘Oh, you’re my best friend.’ He didn’t even want to pay him, but he wants to pay my guy [Aspinall]. He could have paid his best friend. They could have remained best friends… Eddie’s full of a lot of shit.”

White was then asked that, with Queensberry and Matchroom considering running back their 5x5 event, he would do something similar with either entity.

“No, not really. These guys that hated each other six months ago are all working together now. It’s me versus all of them,” he added. “So I don’t think you will see anything like that.”

Asked further about the Aspinall situation, White continued: “He said that he wanted him released [from his UFC contract], right? You release Bam Rodriguez then? Sounds pretty stupid, doesn’t it? Congratulations again, Eddie. You sound stupid again.”

White then furthered his vision for boxing, and how he plans to go about it, with dates set to be added to both his Paramount and Sky Sports deals.

“Well, what starts to happen is as we rip the sport apart and start to build from the ground up with nights like tonight, it starts to create all these different storylines and starts to line up different fights,” he explained. “And the fans and the media start to talk about what they want to see next. You know, we have a Sky deal, which is a very big deal to us. So we’ll be in the UK a lot. And already this year in the United States, we’re going to be adding more fights to Paramount. I mean, we’re five months into this thing and we’re already adding more shows on our Paramount deal and I hope the same thing happens with Sky. We’ve got a lot of big announcements coming up over the next month. So you’re going to expect lots of big things coming from us.”

White also said a lawsuit from Boxxer claiming Zuffa Boxing had taken some of their fighters was not true and that would play out publicly, but he made it clear he was not playing the sandbox with other boxing promoters.

“People always ask me about, ‘oh, you’re competing with this guy.’ Right now, at the level that we’re at, we’re competing with the NFL, we’re competing with the NBA, we’re competing with Major League Baseball and the NHL. You got to imagine, in the United States, the powerhouse over there is the NFL. And I’m sure when the NFL, when they were sitting in executive offices and they saw the deal that we got with Paramount, they had to be thinking, ‘Wait a minute, there was $8 billion sitting over at Paramount that we didn’t get.’ And then, when you go outside the United States, you start competing with soccer.

“When I think about my competition, those are the people that I’m looking at as competition these days. Over the next month, the announcements that we make over the next month and then, like I said, judge us January 1st at the end of this year, beginning of next year on how we’ve done this year.”

Asked also about when the WBC welterweight title fight between Ryan Garcia and Benn might take place, White added: “Soon. A lot of fun things coming up over the next month.”

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Anthony Joshua undercard: Josh Kelly and Hamzah Sheeraz lined up for July 25

Promoter Eddie Hearn has revealed two world championship bouts could take place on the undercard of Anthony Joshua-Kristian Prega on July 25 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Joshua will make his return for the first time since his involvement in a car accident that claimed the lives of two of his closest friends in December. Only days before, Joshua had completed a six-round thrashing of Jake Paul.

The Jeddah card will be funded by Saudi boxing financier Turki Alalshikh and will subsequently come with a bumper undercard. Hearn, whose Matchroom Boxing will be the lead promoter of the event, has revealed two world champions could make their maiden defenses.

Hamzah Sheeraz, who picked up the WBO super middleweight title last month, and Josh Kelly, who claimed the IBF junior middleweight belt back in January and is expected to fight Caoimhin Agyarko.

“I think there could be two world championship fights on the undercard,” Hearn told Boxing Scene. “Hamzah Sheeraz may be one of those as well. Obviously we'll talk to allegedly and Spencer Brown [Sheeraz’s prmoter and manager] and everybody, and Josh Kelly could feature on there as well. That'll be announced this coming week.”

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Anthony Joshua-Tyson Fury could land in Los Angeles at SoFi Stadium

The long-anticipated heavyweight showdown between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury could land at SoFi Stadium near Los Angeles, Boxing Scene has learned.

Two officials briefed on conversations involving Saudi Arabian boxing financier Turki Alalshikh during last month’s Pyramids of Giza card in Egypt headlined by heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk said SoFi Stadium was mentioned as a preferred destination for the bout.

While many Brits want the battle pitting the rival two-time heavyweight champions staged in their native UK, doing so at an outdoor soccer stadium in the fall or winter would make the major event prone to bad weather.

And while there are other questions connected to the potential placement of the bout in the western US – including British fans’ willingness to travel to Los Angeles en masse, whether Fury can now enter America, and ticket pricing – SoFi Stadium is covered and accustomed to major sporting showcases.

The stadium, which will host eight matches at the upcoming World Cup and the Super Bowl in February, can be scaled to accommodate a crowd of 100,000, with 70,240 seats for NFL games.

According to one individual briefed on the matter, the preference is for Joshua-Fury to be placed in an NFL stadium in an area of the country with widespread boxing interest.

Alalshikh brought his first US boxing card to Los Angeles, with five-division champion Terence Crawford defeating Israil Madrimov at BMO Stadium for the WBA 154lbs title in August 2024.

Crawford defeated Canelo Alvarez in another Riyadh Season card in September at the Las Vegas Raiders’ home, Allegiant Stadium.

Fury, 35-2-1 (24 KOs), has fought before in Los Angeles, miraculously rising in the final round against then-WBC champion Deontay Wilder to preserve a December 2018 draw at Staples Center, now known as Crypto.com Arena.

Joshua, 29-4 (26 KOs), has fought twice in the US, knocking out Jake Paul last December in Miami and, in June 2019, suffering a shocking defeat to Andy Ruiz Jnr in 2019 at Madison Square Garden.

Joshua, 36, returns to action July 25 in Saudi Arabia versus Kristian Prenga, seven months after surviving a fatal car crash in Nigeria that left two of his friends dead.

Fury, 37, has said he will fight again August 1 in Dublin, Ireland, before the showdown with Joshua that’s being eyed for later in the year.

Boxing Scene reported first that Netflix is planning to stream the event, and Zuffa Boxing head Dana White repeated over the weekend that his promotion will handle the event despite objections of Joshua promoter Eddie Hearn and Fury promoter allegedly.

It’s logical that Alalshikh would push to add several high-profile bouts to the card, as major showdowns including Devin Haney versus Keyshawn Davis for the WBO welterweight title and four-division champion Shakur Stevenson versus 130lbs champion O’Shaquie Foster are ripe for fall-date placement.

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Hope it's good for Anthony Joshua, he is on a good shape ! I saw his track record here https://combatsmma.fr/le-palmares-compl ... ionnelle/ this is wtf

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Anthony Joshua-Tyson Fury contract states venue must be in UK, says Eddie Hearn

It was never going to be a smooth ride to get to Anthony Joshua versus Tyson Fury. Though contracts have been signed for the British rivals to at last fight late in 2026, likely November, little else has been confirmed.

Both have interim fights to negotiate. Joshua, 29-4 (26 KOs), will take on the unheralded Kristian Prenga in Saudi Arabia on July 25 and, though not yet announced, the 35-2-1 (24 KOs) Fury is expected to warm-up for Joshua in August with Nelson Hysa the latest opponent to be linked to the "Gypsy King".

Presuming both win, and then decide to move forward with the current arrangement, it just leaves the not-so-small matter of where it will take place to decide. There is also squabbling about who the official promoter of the event really is.

Eddie Hearn, Joshua's longtime promoter, found himself under fire from Dana White last weekend. The Zuffa Boxing boss suggested that it is he, and not Hearn or Fury's promoter allegedly, who is pulling the most important strings behind the scenes alongside financier Turki Alalshikh.

"Have they announced where that fight is? No. I know where it is," White said in Bournemouth following Chris Billam-Smith's victory over Ryan Rozicki on Zuffa's debut UK show. "Call Eddie right now and ask him if he knows where the fight is. Call Eddie and ask him who negotiated the contract for the fight. It wasn't him."

There have since been suggestions that the fight will take place in the US and not the UK, with Boxing Scene reporting Tuesday that initial conversations have occurred that could see the battle land in SiFo Stadium in Los Angeles. BS also understands that Las Vegas, specifically the MGM Grand, is also consideration. It would seem, however, that options are being kept open at this stage rather than final decisions being made.

Hearn, who has guided Joshua since day one of his professional career, last week told Boxing Scene that the fight could take place in the US due to less volatile weather conditions than the UK late in the year. But today he indicated that for the fight to be hosted by an American venue, certain terms on the signed contracts would need to change.

"There has been some murmuring of the fight taking place in the US," Hearn told Boxing Scene. "The contract specifically states that the fight must take place in the UK.


"Right now there is no official confirmation."

[Evander]

They may give it up for future considerations
Got the big picture to think of

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Hearn rips 'clueless' White's claims over Joshua-Fury bout

Matchroom Sport chairman Eddie Hearn fired back at UFC CEO Dana White on Thursday, calling him "absolutely clueless" and vehemently denying White's recent claim that he will be the lead promoter for the highly anticipated showdown between heavyweights Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury.

White, who also is the founder of Zuffa Boxing, made the claim at a news conference Saturday, saying that Hearn has no hand in negotiating the contracts for the Joshua-Fury bout. White went on to say that he knows where the fight will take place even though no announcement has been made.

"Call Eddie right now and ask him where the fight is," White said at the news conference. "Call Eddie and ask who negotiated the contract for the fight. It wasn't him."

Hearn, who promotes Joshua, told ESPN on Thursday that White's claims were bizarre and reeked of desperation. The two have publicly feuded since White launched Zuffa Boxing earlier this year.

"His boxing business is so dead that he's trying to find a way to be relevant and part of the biggest fight in boxing, which is Joshua vs. Fury," Hearn told ESPN. "I negotiated the fight contract three months with SELA and Turki Alalshikh. Dana White has no clue what is in that contract. No. 1, Dana White, TKO, Zuffa can have no promotional involvement in that show at all. He also doesn't know about the other clause that was put in the contract that says Anthony Joshua vs. Tyson Fury must take place in the UK."

Though no date or venue have been announced for the Joshua-Fury fight, Hearn told ESPN that it would take place in November at a venue in the United Kingdom, most likely Wembley Stadium, as long as both fighters get past their next opponents. Joshua faces Kristian Prenga on July 25 and Fury is reportedly taking an interim fight later this summer.

This is the latest instance of Hearn and White bickering in the media. Their war of words escalated earlier this year when Zuffa Boxing signed British boxer Conor Benn, whom Hearn had promoted since his pro boxing debut. Speculation that Zuffa Boxing was actively pursuing a Benn vs. Ryan Garcia bout for September on Paramount+ hit a major roadblock earlier this week, when Golden Boy Promotions, Garcia's promoter, issued a cease-and-desist to Zuffa Boxing and TKO Group to put a stop to interference with their fighter.

Hearn told ESPN that wasn't the only cease-and-desist White received. He said that DAZN, with whom Garcia has an exclusive contract, also recently sent a cease-and-desist to White "to tell him to stop interfering with Ryan."

"It's really just more arrogance from Dana White and Zuffa Boxing, who are complete control freaks and have no regard for contracts," Hearn said.

ESPN reached out to Zuffa Boxing for comment, but the promotion did not immediately respond.

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Hearn talks crap as well..

Saying the contract states it has to take place in the UK, but only last month was saying it's all down to Turki and where he wants it to take place.

This article/video was after the fight was confirmed:

https://www.badlefthook.com/boxing-news ... -news-2026

why wouldn't he just say then, that it will be in the UK? keeps saying he's hopeful it will be in the UK.

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Tyson Fury not locked to U.K. for Joshua fight, but Eddie Hearn declares Dana White, Zuffa locked out

Tyson Fury’s signed contract to fight fellow two-division heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua does not stipulate that the bout must occur at a U.K. venue, Boxing Scene has learned.

While that fact does not mean the long-anticipated superfight will defy common sense and take place at an NFL stadium in the U.S. or somewhere else outside the U.K., it does indicate there could be a need for some renegotiation to firm up the bout’s loose ends.

Told of the wiggle room existing in Fury’s contract, Joshua promoter Eddie Hearn said, “I don’t know what [Fury's contract] says about the venue. I just know what ours says: That, exclusively, the fight must take place in the U.K.”

Hearn clarified that the fight contracts exist between Saudi Arabia boxing financier Turki Alalshikh, the nation’s events planner Sela, and Fury, for two tune-up bouts (the next coming August 1 in Dublin) and then the Joshua bout. For Joshua, his July 25 tune-up – against Kristian Prenga – and then the Fury contest.

Both fighters, Hearn said, have signed contracts stipulating that Hearn and England’s allegedly are the promoters of record for their clash, and that the new Zuffa Boxing promotion headed by UFC CEO/President Dana White and WWE President Nick Khan are excluded from involvement.

With Alalshikh owning 60 per cent of Zuffa Boxing, White last week told reporters he will be promoting the bout and hinted it might not be going to an expected U.K. destination.

Hearn speculates Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium could be a target while two boxing officials told BS this week that Alalshikh proposed SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles – which is hosting the World Cup and 2027 Super Bowl – as a venue that could be in play.

“There’s always been differences [in the Joshua and Fury contracts] because they’re individual contracts,” Hearn said Friday at Desert Diamond Arena after the public weigh-in for his bantamweight title fight pitting two-division champion Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez (117.6lbs) and WBA champion Antonio Vargas (117.6lbs).

“If Turki Alalshikh wants to hold the [Joshua-Fury] fight in another country, that’s not necessarily a problem, but contractually he cannot do that. So we’d have to go through a new process, start a new negotiation and make sure that’s good with Anthony Joshua. As I’ve said before, [Alalshikh] pays the bills.

“At the same time, we signed up for the bout with the importance of it being in the U.K., and because that’s where we expect the fight to happen.”

Hearn emphasized that while Alalshikh wields tremendous power, he is not free to designate White/Zuffa Boxing as the event’s promoter, regardless of what White is saying publicly.

“Turki doesn’t have to take over the fight. Turki is the fight,” Hearn said. “But specifically in the contract it says Dana White, Zuffa cannot have any promotional involvement in the show. Dana doesn’t know about the contract for the show that we signed and negotiated.

“What he’s done is probably had a conversation with Turki, saying, ‘Do the fight in Vegas… .’ Unfortunately for those guys, they can’t do that without clearing it with us.

“We don’t rule that out, but Zuffa’s failing really bad at the moment with the product and they’re trying to latch onto this. Someone said to me, ‘why is Dana White doubling down on this [notion that he will promote Joshua-Fury?]’ I said, ‘What do you expect him to do? Backtrack and apologize?’ So now he’ll be trying to get his claws in to pretend, ‘I helped with the venue, I did all this.’

“The contract’s the contract. He won’t have any promotional involvement.”

Hearn repeated the major player in staging the bout is Alalshikh, who has hosted several Riyadh Season cards featuring Joshua and Fury over the past five years. Alalshikh will assign who handles the logistics, but Hearn said it will not be Zuffa “because that’s contractually impossible.”

Earlier this week, Golden Boy Promotions’ Oscar De La Hoya issued a cease-and-desist letter to Zuffa to stop negotiating with Golden Boy fighter, and WBC welterweight champion, Ryan Garcia without Golden Boy’s involvement for a proposed September 12 title defense against Zuffa’s No. 1 WBC contender Conor Benn.

Hearn told Sports Illustrated’s Chris Mannix Thursday that streaming partner DAZN had previously issued a cease-and-desist letter to Zuffa/Paramount+ because Garcia is a DAZN fighter.

“I’ve never seen so many legal cases against a promoter in such a short time,” Hearn said. “These guys [Zuffa] are incredibly arrogant. They think they can just breeze in and do whatever they want. This is not the UFC. You can’t manipulate. You can’t bully people. You can’t tell people to take it or leave it or you’re out.

“What they’re doing is putting themselves in situations where they’re not respecting contracts, they’re tortiously interfering in contracts and disregarding and disrespecting promotion or broadcast contracts.

“The reality is Dana White can’t make Conor Benn against Ryan Garcia without the permission of DAZN, just like we had to get the permission from DAZN for Katie Taylor to box twice and Anthony Joshua to fight previously on Netflix. That’s not [Zuffa’s] style. They’re like, ‘We’re going to do it anyway.’ It doesn’t work like that, mate.”

White has previously predicted a full takeover of the sport by Zuffa and has signed former Hearn fighters Benn and world champions Jai Opetaia and Richardson Hitchins while pursuing four-division champion Shakur Stevenson, labeling rival promoters, “babies.”

Hearn countered, “Boxing’s just different. People don’t just back down from situations where they have a legal right.”

Hearn says he takes great pleasure in knowing that if Garcia fights Benn, White’s bitter rival De La Hoya must be co-promoter.

“Dana will never do that. He won’t allow himself to be put in that position. He’ll go, ‘We’re not doing that,’” Hearn said, also ridiculing White for saying he wouldn’t work with sanctioning bodies, but is now headed to an August 8 IBF middleweight title bout featuring Zuffa Boxing fighters Aaron McKenna versus Etinosa Oliha.

“He’s imploding so badly,” Hearn said, chiding White for recently criticizing the reach of DAZN when DAZN distributes UFC fights in Canada, Germany, Austria, Japan and elsewhere. “Key international markets.”

Speaking to BS on a wide range of topics Friday, Hearn said he was astounded to learn the 82,000 tickets for Katie Taylor’s farewell fight at Croke Park in her native Ireland were sold on Thursday, constituting a sell out.

“Unbelievable, he said, "It’s still a gamble when you go to a stadium. Because of the costs we had to incur, you need to sell it out to work,” Hearn said. “To see that… 80 per cent of the tickets... we probably could have sold out twice.

“That will be the greatest atmosphere ever witnessed in boxing on September 5.”

With so many options available for new simultaneous cruiserweight and light-heavyweight champion David Benavidez of Premier Boxing Champions, Hearn said he’d like his three-belt light-heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol to meet Benavidez next.

Bivol, 25-1 (12 KOs), returned to the ring after more than a year-long absence May 30, dominating IBF mandatory challenger Michael Eifert.

Bivol has options, too, including a trilogy fight versus Russian countryman and former undisputed champion Artur Beterbiev or a WBO mandatory defense against former 168 lbs champion Callum Smith.

“I love the Benavidez fight. You’ve seen Dmitry Biviol defeat Canelo Alvarez. He’ll probably want to fight Benavidez, too,” Hearn said, noting there’s “tremendous” interest in Russia to host Bivol-Beterbiev III.

Hearn added that losing the WBO belt for not fighting Smith is “not the be-all, end-all,” but if the other fights don’t materialize, “We’ll be looking to make the Callum Smith fight next, wherever it happens.”

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Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury: Eddie Hearn confident fight will take place in the UK this November with Wembley a 'clear favourite'

Anthony Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn convinced his mega-fight with Tyson Fury will happen in the UK with Wembley a 'clear favourite' to stage the clash of the titans; Hearn adds he has never seen AJ speak so clearly about the future

"The fight can take place in the snow. I don't really care, so long as it takes place."

Eddie Hearn remains confident Anthony Joshua's mega-fight with Tyson Fury will take place in the UK this November.

Joshua will make his comeback on July 25 in a tune-up bout against unfancied Albanian Kristian Prenga while Fury has said he plans to fight on August 1 in Dublin.

Should they both win then British heavyweights will be on a collision course for a long-awaited showdown.

Speaking to Sky Sports, Hearn confirmed: "The contract is very clear. It specifically states the fight must take place in the UK. We also understand that Turki Alalshikh is paying for the fight, so if he comes up with a plan to stage the fight somewhere else, there will be a sensible conversation and a renegotiation of that contract if we want to move forward with that.

"The reason that clause was in the contract in the first place was because we all want the fight to take place in the UK. It's the biggest fight in the history of British boxing, and I know there's talk of Las Vegas and stuff like this, but I just think it would be a shame not to stage this fight in Britain.

"The fight will take place really where Turki Alalshikh wants it to take place. However, if that is outside the UK there will have to be another conversation with myself, with Anthony Joshua, and I believe with Tyson Fury, who has the same request in his contract for a fight in the UK."

Hearn says Wembley, which held a record 98,128 for Joshua's shock defeat to Daniel Dubois in September 2024 is "clear favourite" to hold the fight ahead of Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and the Principality Stadium in Cardiff.

"No confirmed date yet but the plan for the fight is to take place in November, so pick your Saturday in November," Hearn continued.

"I think middle Saturday in November is a good shout, but again, we've got to get though Prenga and Fury's fight, which looks like August 1."

Conor Benn defeated bitter rival Chris Eubank Jr in their rematch at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium last November, leaving Hearn with no doubt AJ-Fury can happen - even in wintry conditions!

He joked: "That fight can take place in the snow - I don't really care, as long as it takes place."

[Ruthless-RKO]

Speaking to Seconds Out, Chisora said he believes ‘AJ’ will put a full stop on the rivalry.



“AJ wins by knockout in round eight.”