{"id":282362,"date":"2025-11-25T11:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/282362\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T11:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:30:07","slug":"usyk-predicts-anthony-joshua-vs-tyson-fury-as-plans-in-place-to-finally-make-heavyweight-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/282362\/","title":{"rendered":"Usyk predicts Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury as ‘plans’ in place to finally make heavyweight showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> is perhaps more well-positioned than most to know how a potential Tyson Fury<\/a> vs Anthony Joshua<\/a> fight may go.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian great is the only man to have defeated both Joshua and Fury inside a professional ring, and he has been able to do that on two occasions each.<\/p>\n

Usyk first became world heavyweight champion with a unanimous decision victory over Joshua in September 2021, before also coming out on top in their immediate rematch 11 months later, this time by split decision.<\/p>\n

An undisputed clash between Usyk and Fury then took place in May 2024, with the Ukrainian earning a knockdown against his rival on his way to a split decision win, and he then defeated \u2018The Gypsy King\u2019 by unanimous decision in their second meeting in December of that year.<\/p>\n

A match-up between Joshua and Fury is yet to ever take place, despite the two men being linked to one another for a number of years while they were both reigning world champions.<\/p>\n

Reports have now began to emerge again that \u2018plans\u2019 to finally make the all-British showdown in 2026 are underway<\/a>, and Usyk has made his prediction on how it could unfold.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Boxing King Media<\/a>, Usyk revealed that he would lean towards AJ coming out on top.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe Anthony Joshua. Maybe points.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before Joshua vs Fury could potentially happen, the two heavyweights are reported to be lined up for warm-up bouts in February and April respectively, while AJ also has the small matter of a controversial fight against YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul<\/a> in Miami on December 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk is perhaps more well-positioned than most to know how a potential Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-282362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282362","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=282362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}