{"id":671706,"date":"2026-05-15T02:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/671706\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T02:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:49:08","slug":"eddie-hearn-says-anthony-joshua-and-tyson-fury-cannot-afford-to-lose-tune-up-fights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/671706\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn says Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury cannot afford to lose tune-up fights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">British heavyweights Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua are on a collision course for the end of the year, but neither man can afford a slip up as both intend to take interim fights that lead into that much bigger one later. Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn tells <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/boxing\/news\/12183\/13543996\/anthony-joshua-vs-tyson-fury-if-either-fighter-loses-their-warm-up-bout-you-cannot-do-the-fight-warns-eddie-hearn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Sports<\/a> that should either man come up short in their tune-ups, it will completely derail their fight, so far as he\u2019s concerned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Joshua is currently scheduled for a July 25th fight against little-known Kristian Prenga and Fury is expected to take a summer fight as well before meeting Joshua this fall, although no specific opponent has been formally mentioned at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIn my opinion if either fighter loses, you cannot do the fight,\u201d Hearn told Sky Sports. \u201cI will feel sick at the ringwalk on July 25. Especially with what AJ\u2019s come back from. I mean there is that worry. Will he be the same? Everything we see in camp and in sparring lends us to suggest yes. But there\u2019s a lot to overcome. That\u2019s the importance of this fight as well in July.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fury most recently fought Arslanbek Makhmudov, but Hearn expects Fury to take a softer touch than that for his summer outing, and should everything come through clear British fans should be well suited for a fight they\u2019ve long awaited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British heavyweights Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua are on a collision course for the end of the year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-671706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671706","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=671706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}