{"id":434946,"date":"2026-02-19T22:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434946\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T22:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:08:15","slug":"tyson-fury-targets-one-fight-if-he-cant-land-anthony-joshua-or-usyk-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434946\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury targets one fight if he can’t land Anthony Joshua or Usyk this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyson Fury<\/a> is set to make his comeback in seven weeks\u2019 time.<\/p>\n

He had made it clear that showdowns with both Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> and Anthony Joshua<\/a> were at the top of his wish-list, although, should he not be able to secure those fights, Fury has named his next best option.<\/p>\n

Fury retired from boxing following consecutive defeats to Usyk during 2024, whilst a clash with Joshua has been touted for almost a decade, but is still yet to take place.<\/p>\n

Now, \u2018The Gypsy King\u2019 hopes to finally deliver that elusive domestic dust-up and also potentially avenge his Usyk losses in a trilogy affair<\/a> with Ukraine\u2019s unified heavyweight world champion.<\/p>\n

However, with Usyk linked to Deontay Wilder and Agit Kabayel<\/a>, and details regarding Joshua\u2019s return still unknown, Fury may have to look elsewhere for another opponent.<\/p>\n

Speaking to BoxNation<\/a>, Fury explained that he will not allow himself to look past Arslanbek Makhmudov, but admitted that a clash against the victor of Fabio Wardley and Daniel Dubois\u2019 May meeting could be the bout that comes next.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout looking past my man here [Makhmudov], who is as dangerous as both of those guys [Wardley and Dubois], that is one fight that would definitely be interesting to me and we definitely can make it because we are all in the same stable.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are all under one banner, so them fights can be made quite easily, I would say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Should Fury overcome Makhmudov, a fight against the winner of Wardley-Dubois would provide him with the opportunity to become heavyweight boxing\u2019s fifth three-time champion; joining Muhammad Ali, Lennox Lewis, Vitali Klitschko and Evander Holyfield in that elite club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury is set to make his comeback in seven weeks\u2019 time. He had made it clear that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-434946","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\/434946","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=434946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}