{"id":554293,"date":"2026-04-28T02:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T02:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/554293\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T02:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T02:07:09","slug":"will-anthony-joshua-and-tyson-fury-eventually-fight-in-2026-and-if-so-who-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/554293\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury eventually fight in 2026 and, if so, who wins?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">Eric Raskin: All indications are that both sides want it to happen toward the end of the year, but given the history of near-misses between these two, I\u2019d still say it\u2019s only about 60\/40 to get finalized. But that means I\u2019m leaning \u201cyes\u201d on it happening in 2026. As for who wins, I <a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/articles\/a-good-night-for-tyson-fury-a-great-night-for-anthony-joshua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">did my best to talk myself<\/a> into the style match-up favoring Joshua after Fury\u2019s middling performance against Arslanbek Makhmudov, but, ultimately, I can\u2019t quite get there. Fury is too clever in the ring, too versatile, too natural, and I pick him to win a competitive but clear unanimous decision over an often frustrated \u201cAJ\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Raskin: All indications are that both sides want it to happen toward the end of the year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[6565,2560,101,6901,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-554293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-tyson-fury","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554293","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=554293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}