{"id":316237,"date":"2025-12-14T22:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T22:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/316237\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T22:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T22:09:08","slug":"derek-chisora-predicts-anthony-joshua-vs-tyson-fury-as-fight-plan-announced-hes-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/316237\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Chisora predicts Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury as fight plan announced: &#8220;He&#8217;s different&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Riyadh Season continues to hoover up boxing\u2019s biggest events, it now appears ready to claim the one fight British fans have waited years to see. <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/tyson-fury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyson Fury<\/a> vs <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/anthony-joshua\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Joshua<\/a> \u2014 the heavyweight super-fight that refused to materialise in its prime \u2014 is reportedly being lined up for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend <a href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/news\/tyson-fury-vs-anthony-joshua-reportedly-planned-for-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ring magazine<\/a> revealed that the Battle of Britain could headline a Riyadh Season card, provided both men come through warm-up bouts unscathed. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/tudum\/articles\/jake-paul-anthony-joshua-fight-date-time-how-to-watch#:~:text=How%20can%20I%20watch%20the,%2Dper%2Dview%20purchase%20required.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">For Joshua, that includes his mega-money crossover fight against Jake Paul on December 19.<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/fury-retirement-turns-turki-alalshikhs-attention-to-joshua-vs-wilder\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The currently retired Fury<\/a>, meanwhile, appears ready to leave normality behind and return to the ring, putting one of the final pieces in place to ensure the fight finally happens.<\/p>\n<p>Former Fury opponent Derek Chisora, who lost three times to the \u201cGypsy King\u201d, has been giving his verdict to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/rcE7xwtdLjI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">talkSPORT<\/a> on the latest update and even offered an early prediction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout time we get that fight going. We need that for us, for Great Britain. Forget the whole world. We need that for ourselves. I\u2019m happy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan you imagine if Tyson Fury retired, AJ retired without fighting each other? It don\u2019t make sense for us. We wanna see it. I\u2019m not even picking sides. I just want to see a great fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActually, I\u2019ll be honest I\u2019m gonna pick sides. AJ wins it. The way they\u2019re training him and the way he\u2019s gonna be boxing we\u2019ll see a totally different guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joshua, who has previously worked with Robert McCracken, Robert Garcia, Derrick James and Ben Davison, has now linked up with Oleksandr Usyk\u2019s team as he prepares for his eight-round bout against Paul. The former unified heavyweight champion relocated to Spain for the camp as he looks to avoid what would be arguably the biggest boxing upset of all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Riyadh Season continues to hoover up boxing\u2019s biggest events, it now appears ready to claim the one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-316237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316237","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=316237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}