{"id":860582,"date":"2026-08-16T21:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T21:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/860582\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T21:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T21:44:12","slug":"white-on-fury-vs-joshua-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/860582\/","title":{"rendered":"White on Fury vs. Joshua saga"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua has been one of the biggest fights possible in the world of boxing for years now, but has somehow never come to fruition.<\/a> Even now, years past it\u2019s best before date,<\/a> the fight struggles to get across the finish line. Even with Saudi boxing power broker Turki Alalshikh pushing to make it a reality, there\u2019s still a very good chance the fight falls apart.<\/p>\n

Zuffa Boxing head Dana White\u2019s participation in the fight has been controversial from the start. Anthony Joshua\u2019s contract has a provision in it specifically barring White from promoting the fight. It also has a provision stating the fight must take place in the UK. Both those terms are being ignored by Alalshikh, who is looking to promote the fight under Zuffa\u2019s banner in New York City.<\/p>\n

Asked about the status of Joshua vs. Fury following UFC 330, White didn\u2019t sound particularly optimistic.<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, this f–king saga, we\u2019ll see how this whole thing plays out,\u201d he said. \u201cThey either want to fight or they don\u2019t. I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

White noted that he wasn\u2019t involved in Anthony Joshua\u2019s contract, only the Netflix and (rumored) Madison Square Garden deals.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo make a fight, two guys have to want to fight,\u201d White said. \u201cPeriod. End of story. Contracts and this and that? There\u2019s a lot of f–king money for grabs in this fight. Do you want to fight or do you not want to fight? I don\u2019t give a s–t one way or the other. I\u2019d be happy [if the fight was in the UK]. I don\u2019t give a s–t. Do you want to fight or do you not want to fight?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fight should have happened ten years ago, is it going to happen now? We\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear that White and Alalshikh are in a war of wills with Anthony Joshua and his promoter Eddie Hearn, who want the Fury fight to take place in Britain. Hearn already has Alalshikh\u2019s word in contract form that the fight will go down in the UK. But if Joshua really wants to fight Fury, White argues, he\u2019d ignore the contract.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll fight to a point where they\u2019ve breached the contract by doing it in America, or we come to an agreement,\u201d Hearn said of the situation earlier this week. \u201cNow, these people are our partners and our friends as well, so it\u2019s very difficult. We wouldn\u2019t have signed the agreement in its form if it was in America, so what we can\u2019t do is just change it like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll see who blinks first on this one, or maybe no one blinks and the whole fight collapses. Again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua has been one of the biggest fights possible in the world of boxing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,75400],"class_list":["post-860582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-zuffa-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860582","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=860582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}