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Re: Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua | NETFLIX - Winter 2026 *new thread*
Oh, so he is allowed into America, then? I thought everyone said he was banned?
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Re: Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua | NETFLIX - Winter 2026 *new thread*
He thanked Turki. Turki made it happen? or Turki > Dana > Trump..mickey1975 wrote: ↑15 Jun 2026, 01:51 Oh, so he is allowed into America, then? I thought everyone said he was banned?
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Re: Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua | NETFLIX - Winter 2026 *new thread*
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.”
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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Re: Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua | NETFLIX - Winter 2026 *new thread*
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."
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."
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Re: Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua | NETFLIX - Winter 2026 *new thread*
I think last night proved Hearn isn't the one holding the cards here.
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Re: Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua | NETFLIX - Winter 2026 *new thread*
He clearly isn’t.mickey1975 wrote: ↑15 Jun 2026, 04:19 I think last night proved Hearn isn't the one holding the cards here.
Every interview he’s changing what he says.
While he admits it’s down to Turki, he now says there will need to be renegotiations if it was to take place outside the UK.
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Re: Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua | NETFLIX - Winter 2026 *new thread*
Whereas Big John Fury just said "is it?" when the interviewer said the fight was done. And Tyson has gone WBC number 1 again...Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑15 Jun 2026, 04:54He clearly isn’t.mickey1975 wrote: ↑15 Jun 2026, 04:19 I think last night proved Hearn isn't the one holding the cards here.
Every interview he’s changing what he says.
While he admits it’s down to Turki, he now says there will need to be renegotiations if it was to take place outside the UK.
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Re: Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua | NETFLIX - Winter 2026 *new thread*
Speaking to Seconds Out, Chisora said he believes ‘AJ’ will put a full stop on the rivalry.
“AJ wins by knockout in round eight.”
“AJ wins by knockout in round eight.”