{"id":594389,"date":"2026-04-08T23:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/594389\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T23:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:21:08","slug":"boxing-fury-wants-british-heavyweight-clash-with-joshua-after-comeback-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/594389\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing-Fury wants British heavyweight clash with Joshua after comeback fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">LONDON, April 8 &#8211; Tyson Fury wants to fight Anthony Joshua in a long-awaited clash of British former heavyweight world champions if he wins his comeback\u00a0against Canada-based Russian Arslanbek Makhmudov in London on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Fury, 37, has come out of retirement for the fifth time in his career to get back into the ring at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium and is looking well beyond the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve got Arslanbek Makhmudov to think of on Saturday night, but all going well (Joshua is) the fight I want next,&#8221; he told BBC radio on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">&#8220;I know he just had his fight with Jake Paul, whatever&#8230; a fight&#8217;s a fight really. So yeah, I&#8217;ll be ready for that straight away after this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Joshua, 36, last fought in December when he dealt American Jake Paul a reality check with a savage sixth round knockout in Miami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A few days after that, the former WBA, IBF and WBO champion was taken to hospital in Nigeria following a car accident that killed two close friends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">American former WBC world champion Deontay Wilder has also called out Joshua for a long-awaited matchup after beating Briton Derek Chisora on a split-decision last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Fury, who has not fought since losing to Ukraine&#8217;s reigning world champion Oleksandr Usyk in December 2024, dismissed the idea of that happening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen two men slide as much as these two,&#8221; he said of the Wilder v Chisora bout.\u00a0&#8220;They look like a couple of club fighters from a white-collar match in a local leisure centre. It was sad for me to watch.&#8221; REUTERS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON, April 8 &#8211; Tyson Fury wants to fight Anthony Joshua in a long-awaited clash of British former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-594389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}