iFL TV<\/a>. \u201cDana White has tried to get involved in a fight that he has nothing to do with and to get Sela to break their contract, scrap a British fight, and bring it to America. He thinks that he\u2019s not causing a problem in this fight? All we have ever done is said, \u2018We\u2019ve signed our contract. Just honor the contract that we\u2019ve signed.\u2019<\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019ve never done anything else and what he can\u2019t get his head around is that Anthony Joshua won\u2019t take a little bit more money to do the fight in America, because he cares. He cares where the fight is. He cares about British boxing, and he cares about the contract that he signed. And Dana White thinks you can throw a little bit of money at someone and they\u2019ll dance to your f*cking tune. Well, guess what? Not on A.J.\u2019s watch. That is why, unfortunately for these people, the fight will not be taking place in America, because Anthony Joshua is not a sellout.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fury and Joshua both recently scored wins over Mariusz Wach and Kristian Prenga, respectively, to keep their matchup on track after Ring Magazine previously announced the British boxing stars would fight sometime near the end of 2026. As of now, there is no confirmed date nor location for the bout.<\/p>\n
Hearn puts the delay of an official announcement squarely on White\u2019s side, claiming they have offered more money to Joshua to fight Fury in the U.S., but Joshua isn\u2019t budging.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnthony Joshua could have taken many millions more to do the fight in America and it was totally on him,\u201d Hearn said. \u201c\u2018Forget Eddie Hearn. What do I want? I want this fight in Britain.\u2019 Now, do I want A.J. to make more money? By the way, for anyone that\u2019s got a brain, when A.J. makes a load more money, guess who else makes a load more money? Me. You call me, you say I\u2019m mad about money, you\u2019re saying it\u2019s the only thing I care about, yet when I want to do the fight in Britain, it\u2019s \u2018fake patriotism.\u2019 I thought I was crazy about money. What is it?<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want the fight in Britain. The support that we\u2019ve had on social media, my social media, A.J.\u2019s social media, has made us double down our principles on this. We\u2019re not trying to hurt the fight. We signed a contract. The whole thing\u2019s crazy. What they\u2019re now doing is they\u2019re sulking because they can\u2019t be involved, and because Dana White went out and told everybody, \u2018I know where the fight is. You\u2019ll see, you\u2019ll see, you\u2019ll see.\u2019 I\u2019m not even going to rub their nose in it, because I don\u2019t need to. It\u2019s done. But ultimately, the one thing he said previously and you know what, it just comes back and it resonates with me more and more and more. We are not the same. And I promise you one thing, we are not the same.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the wait for the dream fight drags on, Hearn is convinced public sentiment is turning in favor of Fury and Joshua meeting in the U.K.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got to a situation, we set out some terms where it might be able to agree,\u201d Hearn said. \u201cThe money that we discussed, ultimately, probably was deliverable, was agreed. And Anthony turned around and I think he never even wanted to send a new addendum, honestly, but we were put under that much pressure where it was like, \u2018Look, if you really want to go to America, blah blah blah blah blah.\u2019 And all these people were coming back on certain things and in the meantime he\u2019d also seen the response of the British public, and by the way, so had I. I\u2019ve got to be honest with you, it makes you fight that little bit harder. He turned around to me with the two offers on the table and said, \u2018No, I just want to stick to the original contract. I want to do this fight in the U.K.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cSo from there we put these guys in a position where it was like, \u2018You can\u2019t do it.\u2019 Obviously, everyone went crazy, they threw their toys out the pram, certain people. They couldn\u2019t believe that A.J. was standing firm on the U.K. \u2018Oh, this is just Eddie Hearn doing it because he wants to make sure that Dana White doesn\u2019t win or is not involved.\u2019 I don\u2019t give a f*ck. A.J. makes the decisions. And people say, \u2018A.J. turned down more money to do it in the U.S. because he wanted to do it in the U.K.\u2019 Yes. I\u2019m not going to lie to you, that\u2019s exactly what happened. So, right now, over the last week, we have been in constant communication and\u2014I can\u2019t say negotiation because the contract\u2019s already signed\u2014but discussions with Netflix and with Sela, and we believe we\u2019re in a great position to move forward. I can\u2019t tell you dates and venues or what\u2019s going to happen because an official announcement will come from Turki Alalshikh, but I\u2019m hopeful that over the next week we could be in a position to get that announcement for a U.K. fight, and if we do, there will be unbelievable celebrations from the British public. I think A.J. should be knighted in the process, to be honest with you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hearn was asked if there was any truth to the rumor that Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, had become a front-runner to host Fury vs. Joshua and while he said that is his preference, he understands that booking Wembley Stadium in London is more appealing on a global level.<\/p>\n
At the end of the day, Hearn wants it to be clear that it\u2019s Joshua who will make the final call.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reason that I\u2019m doing this is because I want the fight in the U.K., but my instructions from Anthony Joshua are make sure this fight is in the U.K.,\u201d Hearn said. \u201cYou cannot underestimate the noise and the patriotism and the support of people online. And Turki sees that. I think Turki\u2019s now probably excited by the reaction from the British fans to bring this fight to the U.K.<\/p>\n
\u201cAgain, not going to start falling out with people, Dana White is the guy, Nick Khan is the guy that have tried desperately to bring this fight to the U.S. and not to stage this fight in the U.K. You\u2019ve seen his comments, Dana White does not want this fight in the U.K., so that\u2019s been the big problem, but I think finally now people are starting to see\u2014because they\u2019ve had no choice, because we\u2019ve stayed firm against everybody\u2014this is massive in the U.K. and it will be. We get this fight over the line for the U.K., wait until you see the reaction. It could be the biggest sporting event ever in the U.K. We know it\u2019s the biggest fight ever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn isn\u2019t budging when it comes to bringing Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua home, no matter what…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,701,82,640,702],"class_list":["post-898278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-latest-news","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898278","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=898278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}