{"id":612637,"date":"2026-04-17T09:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/612637\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T09:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:34:07","slug":"carl-froch-predicts-tyson-fury-vs-anthony-joshua-after-makhmudov-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/612637\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Froch predicts Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua after Makhmudov performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Saturday last weekend\u2019s call-out, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/anthony-joshua\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Joshua<\/a> is under pressure to accept a mammoth fight against <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/tyson-fury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyson Fury<\/a>. Now, super-middleweight icon Carl Froch has had his say on how he thinks the potential bout may play out.<\/p>\n<p>Fury boxed his way to a comfortable decision win against Arslanbek Makhmudov, claiming a first victory since 2023 and doing so after 16 months of inactivity, in what he hopes will be the first outing of a two-fight year.<\/p>\n<p>Post-fight, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cwy3ww0rkylo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fury heaped the pressure onto fellow two-time world champion Joshua, demanding that he and \u2018AJ\u2019 fight next<\/a>, but the Londoner was unwilling to rush into annoucing the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Joshua remained calm and collected, refusing to publicly agree to the fight but saying that he does believe it will happen this year.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xyCZ3B1PWRQ?si=mYM_fLEY0K7VE5c0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his YouTube channel<\/a>, Froch said that he sees Fury as the favourite, impressed by his Saturday showing against Makhmudov.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that AJ will be the underdog for this one. I think that Fury is the favourite, especially off the back of that performance; he eased in tonight, it was just steady, he took his time, still looks good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI envy that actually, 16 months out of the ring and he is able to come and do a performance like that. Okay, he was in with Makhmudov, he is not in with a world beater, but it was a good 12 rounds\u2019 work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/eddie-hearn-on-joshua-vs-fury-contract\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua\u2019s fight news is expected to be announced in the coming weeks, with a lower level run out in July expected followed by the Fury fight around November.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Saturday last weekend\u2019s call-out, Anthony Joshua is under pressure to accept a mammoth fight against Tyson Fury.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-612637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612637","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=612637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}