{"id":882714,"date":"2026-09-07T01:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882714\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T01:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:28:12","slug":"boxing-2026-tyson-fury-calls-off-joshua-fight-challenges-usyk-to-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882714\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing 2026: Tyson Fury calls off Joshua fight, challenges Usyk to trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyson Fury has suggested his all-British blockbuster bout<\/a> with Anthony Joshua is off and has challenged Oleksandr Usyk to a third fight.<\/p>\n

Fury and Joshua have been locked in negotiations over a mega-money bout but the \u2018Gypsy King\u2019 has grown impatient at a lack of confirmation, calling his rival a \u201ccoward\u201d earlier in the week.<\/p>\n

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Fury has now said Joshua has \u201cs**t his pants\u201d and turned his attention to Usyk, who he lost twice to on points in 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cAJ has s**t his pants again, yet again,\u201d he told his followers in a post on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter 11 years he has finally s**t his pants yet again.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will only lead me to a fight with Oleksandr Usyk. Oleksandr you\u2019re his (Joshua\u2019s) trainer and his sensei and you know he is a weak minded piece of s**t and that he would never fight the Gypsy King, which you have had the guts to do twice.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou got the decisions last time, fair play to you. Good luck to you, let\u2019s do it again. <\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s run it back in November. The ball is now in your court\u2026 do you want to fight me this year, 2026, or are you calling quits? <\/p>\n

\u201cLet me know because I am now looking for a new opponent.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Joshua\u2019s promotor, Matchroom\u2019s Eddie Hearn, has previously said an agreement hinged on his client\u2019s net purse.<\/p>\n

New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden was widely expected to be announced as the venue despite Joshua\u2019s camp preferring Wembley Stadium as Sela, the Saudi state-owned promotional company financing the fight, wanted a bigger American audience on Netflix.<\/p>\n

The news comes after an increasingly bitter dispute over the location and terms of the fight, with Hearn accusing Fury\u2019s camp of \u201cmoving the goalposts\u201d and describing negotiations with the former heavyweight champion as a \u201ctotal f***ing nightmare\u201d.<\/p>\n

Fury launched a blistering attack on both Joshua and Hearn over the weekend, rejecting suggestions he doesn\u2019t want to fight in England and declaring he will \u201cbatter\u201d his British rival when they finally meet.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy the f*** wouldn\u2019t I want to fight in England, you sausage?\u201d Fury said.<\/p>\n

Fury branded Hearn a \u201cpathetic puppet\u201d as tensions exploded over the proposed blockbuster.<\/p>\n

\u201cTyson is not in charge of this fight. Tyson didn\u2019t put the money up for this fight. Tyson is not the paymaster.<\/p>\n

\u201cLovely, it\u2019s in England, even better. I\u2019m knocking him out even quicker.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrimetime England, 10 o\u2019clock, Wembley Stadium, 100,000 people. Why the f*** wouldn\u2019t I want it in England?\u201d<\/p>\n

Fury and Joshua have repeatedly been linked throughout their careers without ever sharing the ring professionally — although famously sparred a few rounds togehter in 2010.<\/p>\n

Fury later claimed Joshua had given him \u201ca beating\u201d and predicted the \u201cred hot\u201d young heavyweight would go on to become a champion.<\/p>\n

Sixteen years later, they are still yet to step in the ring.<\/p>\n

Fury insisted last week that the location won\u2019t stop him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis fight\u2019s been moved up about four or five times to a very different location, Ireland, England, Las Vegas, New York. I\u2019ve said yes to all of them,\u201d Fury said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I\u2019ll fight, no problem. Let\u2019s get it on. Let\u2019s get it on like Donkey Kong.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll fight in Brazil. I\u2019ll fight in Morecambe. I\u2019ll fight in Derby. I\u2019ll fight in f***ing Costa Del Sol. I\u2019ll fight on Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Hearn has painted a very different picture of the negotiations, claiming an agreement has already been signed and suggesting Joshua\u2019s camp is growing increasingly frustrated by attempts to change it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury has suggested his all-British blockbuster bout with Anthony Joshua is off and has challenged Oleksandr Usyk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-882714","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\/882714","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=882714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}