Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn has moved to pour cold water on reports that a blockbuster heavyweight showdown between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury has been agreed, flatly contradicting claims made by respected boxing journalist Gareth A Davies that the all-British fight is signed and set for Netflix.\n<\/p>\n
Davies had told talkSPORT that the contest was finalised in the background and backed by major financial interests, stating, \u201cThe Fury-Joshua fight is signed. Okay, it is signed in the background. I\u2019ve got that on good authority. It\u2019s with the big money people. It\u2019ll be on Netflix.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Hearn, however, was unequivocal in his rebuttal, telling The Stomping Ground that nothing of the sort was in place.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is absolutely nothing signed with Anthony Joshua to fight Tyson Fury next. There is nothing agreed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The promoter acknowledged that deep conversations had taken place about the fight before Joshua\u2019s life was upended by the horror car crash on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on December 29, which claimed the lives of his friends, personal trainer Kevin Ayodele and recovery therapist Sina Ghami, just 10 days after the British-Nigerian boxer had stopped Jake Paul in six rounds in Miami. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere have been conversations \u2014 deep conversations prior to the accident \u2014 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.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThere have been no conversations really about that fight, other than in the last few days, conversations about starting to think about revisiting the plan,\u201d Hearn said.<\/p>\n
Joshua has since resumed training and is working towards a summer comeback, with Dillian Whyte\u2019s name circulating as a potential opponent for his return fight. Should he come through that unscathed, a Fury bout could follow later in the year.\n<\/p>\n
Fury, meanwhile, makes his own ring return on April 11 when he faces knockout specialist Arslanbek Makhmudov at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on a Netflix card that also features Conor Benn. The Gypsy King had announced his retirement from the sport over a year ago before reversing that decision.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn has moved to pour cold water on reports that a blockbuster heavyweight showdown between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[5276,703,85903,49,48,19007,213844,12927,19008,1316,82,5513],"class_list":["post-550072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-boxing","tag-british-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-eddie-hearn","tag-gareth-a-davies","tag-heavyweight-boxing","tag-matchroom-boxing","tag-netflix","tag-sports","tag-tyson-fury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550072","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=550072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}