\u201cCompletely untrue,\u201d promoter Eddie Hearn said to The Stomping Grounds \u2013 via Boxing News \u2013\u00a0in response to a report that a deal had been made for a long anticipated fight between former heavyweight titlists Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury.\u00a0 \u201cThere is absolutely nothing signed with Anthony Joshua to fight Tyson Fury next. There is nothing agreed. There have been conversations \u2013 deep conversations prior to the accident \u2013 that he was going to fight Jake Paul, then fight in February or March in Saudi Arabia, then fight Tyson Fury. Then obviously the accident happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
The accident Hearn speaks of was a brutal holiday season automobile crash in Africa, where Joshua was visiting friends and family. Two passengers in the vehicle died and Joshua himself was hurt. There\u2019s still no definite fight on the horizon for the towering Londoner, but word is he may eventually return to the ring. A fight with\u00a0 Fury however is not on the agenda yet.. at least according to Joshua\u2019s promoter, Hearn.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince then, there have been no conversations really about that fight,\u201d Hearn said,\u201dother than in the last few days conversations with Dr. Raka, Sela, about starting to think about revisiting the plan.\u201d Suffice to say a fight between Joshua and Fury has long been on the wish list of fight fans.<\/p>\n
Indeed, notable fight journalist Gareth Davis recently claimed to TalkSport that \u201cthe Fury-Joshua fight is signed. Okay, it is signed in the background. I\u2019ve got that on good authority. I can\u2019t put it out there as a scoop, but they are moving towards it.\u201d Davies added that \u201cThey (Joshua and Fury) both want the fight.\u201d While this may be true, Hearns\u2019 comments indicate that it will be a bit before the fight is announced\u2026if it even comes to fruition. In boxing, major announcements can be few and far between.<\/p>\n
The truth is that a throwdown between Joshua and Fury would be an enormous event. Even though some argue both men are past their primes. First off, both have been world titlists. What\u2019s more, they\u2019re both super-sized heavyweights. Lastly, they\u2019re both from England making this possible fight an even bigger deal in the UK than it would be everywhere else. Should these two men not meet in the ring for whatever reason, the fight world will be left with a sense of what could have been. These two have been on a collision course for years now. It would speak poorly of boxing if they weren\u2019t at some point, able to throw down in the ring\u2026 Provided, of course, they\u2019re both men were mentally physically able to do battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cCompletely untrue,\u201d promoter Eddie Hearn said to The Stomping Grounds \u2013 via Boxing News \u2013\u00a0in response to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-546042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}