{"id":903886,"date":"2026-09-24T15:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903886\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:48:10","slug":"tyson-fury-and-anthony-joshua-boxing-megafight-announced-to-be-held-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903886\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua boxing megafight announced, to be held in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A long-awaited boxing match between British former heavyweight world champions Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua has been confirmed for December 11 in Cardiff, according to an event promoter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The two boxers will meet at the Principality Stadium, promoter Turki Alalshikh said on social media on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Earlier media reports had suggested promoters were initially proposing to stage the fight at New York&#8217;s Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tyson Fury with no shirt on jeering while flexing his arms with his two fists directed at one another.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6d88f798b10a50020a49319b1b6c1db0.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The long-awaited fight has been anticipated for more than a decade. (Reuters: Supplied\/Action Images\/Andrew Couldridge)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">\u201cFor 15 years no one has been able to make this fight,\u201d he posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can now confirm that Fury Vs Joshua will be coming to the UK, as I promised British boxing fans. The time for talking is over\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A clash between the British rivals has been one of the most anticipated fights for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Fury and Joshua ruled the heavyweight division for much of the past decade, but a bout between them to unify all the major belts never came to fruition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Both were later beaten by Oleksandr Usyk, who became the undisputed heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">In an Instagram post on Thursday, local time, Joshua&#8217;s announcement of the fight and message to fans was short: &#8220;I am inspiring a generation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Fury stepped out of retirement this year and made his return to the ring for the first time in more than a year with victories against Arslanbek Makhmudov and Mariusz Wach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Joshua\u2019s only fights since losing his IBF world title fight against Daniel Dubois in 2024 were against YouTuber Jake Paul and Kristian Prenga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Mr Alalshikh is a Saudi Arabian adviser who organises boxing events for the Middle Eastern kingdom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">While Fury and Joshua are arguably past their peak, it is a fight that is still likely to garner global attention and will be streamed worldwide on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">\u201cTHE WAIT IS OVER. Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua finally collide,\u201d Joshua&#8217;s promoter Matchroom posted on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Matchroom&#8217;s Eddie Hearn told The Independent last month they had insisted on the fight taking place in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;We don\u2019t want the money, we\u2019d rather it was in the UK,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A long-awaited boxing match between British former heavyweight world champions Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua has been confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[8075,64,63,802,588,85,8691,5429,3586],"class_list":["post-903886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-tyson-fury","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903886","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=903886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}