{"id":196689,"date":"2025-10-13T08:36:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T08:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/196689\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T08:36:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T08:36:19","slug":"anthony-joshua-weighing-fight-offers-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/196689\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua weighing fight offers in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is still currently contemplating his next career move after his stoppage loss to Daniel Dubois, but his Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn tells ESPN<\/a> that he\u2019s been fielding and considering offers to fight in both Ghana and Nigeria before he looks to target a long awaited fight with Tyson Fury in 2026.<\/p>\n

The current names being floated as potential opponents for a Joshua fight in Africa include both Martin Bakole and Deontay Wilder, the latter of which was a huge fight to make years ago but never could quite come together, and both Wilder and Joshua\u2019s stock have both dropped considerably since that time.<\/p>\n

\u201dWe have had an approach from Ghana, and now Nigeria. I think AJ fighting in Africa would be incredible.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he fights again in February or March, he will have been out of the ring for 18 months. It\u2019s a huge amount of time to come back versus a top ten heavyweight but also it\u2019s Anthony Joshua and you have got these big site deals so you can\u2019t just fight some random geezer who is ranked 100th in the world over eight rounds. If he wasn\u2019t Anthony Joshua, you might actually do that but it\u2019s very difficult to do that in his position.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the offers on the table, Hearn insists that a showdown with Fury is their top priority, although it\u2019s almost impossible to determine what the mercurial Fury will end up doing, as he\u2019s announced his retirement from the sport of boxing time and time again, with him recently saying the last time was for good. Take that with a grain of salt, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is still currently contemplating his next career move after his stoppage loss…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-196689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}