{"id":569891,"date":"2026-07-27T05:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T05:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/569891\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T05:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T05:30:25","slug":"eddie-hearn-says-fury-joshua-fight-can-only-be-held-abroad-if-terms-renegotiated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/569891\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn says Fury-Joshua fight can only be held abroad if terms renegotiated"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eddie Hearn says the Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua showdown must take place in the UK under the terms of the fight deal signed three months ago.<\/p>\n

Saudi boxing chief\u00a0Turki Alalshikh wants to stage the fight \u2013 which is expected to take place in October or November \u2013 at a time that would attract a global audience.<\/p>\n

Alalshikh would need to gain an exemption to Wembley Stadium\u2019s current curfews to go ahead with his plans for a 2am UK start, and it has now emerged Madison Square Garden in New York is the powerbroker\u2019s preferred choice for the all-British fight.<\/p>\n

\"WembleyAnthony Joshua says Wembley Stadium should stage his heavyweight showdown with Tyson Fury (Bradley Collyer\/PA)<\/p>\n

But Joshua\u2019s promoter Hearn insists they have signed up for a UK fight only and the contract would have to be renegotiated to move elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a reason we put contracts together,\u201d Hearn said after Joshua\u2019s second-round stoppage of Kristian Prenga kept him on course for a Fury showdown, little more than 24 hours after his British rival had stopped Mariusz Wach in Thailand.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a reason that AJ employs lawyers. There\u2019s a reason me and him sit down and have endless conversations to make sure that every move is correct.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe insisted that this fight was in the UK. I know that AJ will sometimes want to be a little bit of a peacekeeper, but the reality is he said to me, \u2018I want the fight in the UK. This is a British fight\u2019. I can\u2019t agree more.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/x.com\/EddieHearn\/status\/2081195000424022217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p>\n

\u201cTurki Alalshikh is our partner and has been an unbelievable supporter of Anthony Joshua. It\u2019s not like as if it was Frank Warren (Fury\u2019s promoter) back in the day and we would have made this fight and I\u2019d have said, \u2018Spin on it\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would have conversations, but the\u00a0only way the fight doesn\u2019t take place in England is if Anthony Joshua and myself agree to\u00a0it because we have a legally binding contract that took a long, long time to negotiate<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s be honest this is a fight for the British public. The MSG, great venue, but this is something that will be remembered across all generations forever.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s nothing I need to do to make the fight. The fight\u2019s signed. The fight\u2019s made. So, we\u2019ll see what the next couple of weeks bring.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ThailandTyson Fury (right) beat Poland\u2019s Mariusz Wach on Friday to set up a clash with Anthony Joshua this autumn (Sakchai Lalit\/AP)<\/p>\n

Joshua believes the legacy of both himself and Fury would be tarnished if their long-awaited meeting is not held in the UK \u2013 and the two-time former world champion says Wembley has been agreed to host it.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cWhen these conversations started, there was no other venue or location that was ever mentioned.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was simple. This is the road map. You fight, come back, fight, and then providing you\u2019re victorious, you\u2019ll be fighting Tyson Fury in the UK, basically Wembley.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t expect it to be at Tottenham (Hotspur Stadium) or the Principality Stadium (Cardiff) respectfully. It\u2019s just got that history when you think of Wembley.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019m not too sure where all this conversation started of different locations, new this that and the other.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn says the Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua showdown must take place in the UK under the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-569891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}