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\u201cIn my opinion, if either fighter loses, you cannot do the fight,\u201d said Hearn to Sky Sports<\/a>. \u201cI will feel sick at the ringwalk on July 25. Especially with what AJ\u2019s come back from. I mean, there is that worry. Will he be the same? Everything we see in camp and in sparring lends us to suggest yes. But there\u2019s a lot to overcome. That\u2019s the importance of this fight as well in July.<\/p>\n \u201cNow we have signed to fight Tyson Fury. He has signed to fight Anthony Joshua. The only thing that stands in the way is July 25.\u201d<\/p>\n Hearn believes Fury could even appear on the same Riyadh card as Joshua, although he expects the former WBC heavyweight champion to take a lower-risk opponent while focusing on getting to the main event later this year.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t have a problem with that. That\u2019s down to Turki to see where he wants to land. It might be difficult for Fury to go underneath Joshua on that card I don\u2019t know,\u201d said Hearn.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think he is going to be having a fight of any significance, even not the likes of Makhmudov. I don\u2019t even think they\u2019d have a fight at that level. They\u2019ve got to do what they\u2019ve got to do. They\u2019ve just had 12 good rounds, and we look forward to hopefully less rounds than that, but going through the gears and warming up for the big one.<\/p>\n \u201cI think everybody\u2019s extremely focused, now that both fighters have signed, on just getting through the next couple of months and making sure we can give the world this mega-event.\u201d<\/p>\n Hearn also expects Fury to attend Joshua\u2019s July 25 return if plans remain on course for the November showdown.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d be shocked if he wasn\u2019t in Riyadh on July 25. Because that\u2019s the moment,\u201d said Hearn. \u201cThey\u2019ve never come face to face. When they come face to face for the first time, it will give every sports fans the shivers. Because this is something they will never forget.\u201d<\/p>\n Olly Campbell is a boxing journalist who has covered the sport since 2014, providing ringside reporting and technical analysis of major bouts. His work focuses on fighter tendencies, tactical adjustments, and the details that shape high-level competition.<\/p>\n Click here to subscribe to our FREE newsletter<\/a>Related Boxing News:<\/p>\n \t\t\tCategories Anthony Joshua<\/a>, Tyson Fury<\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n Boxing News 24<\/a> \u00bb Anthony Joshua<\/a> \u00bb Eddie Hearn: One Loss Ends Joshua-Fury Plans<\/p>\n Last Updated on 2026\/05\/16 at 12:52 AM \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury may finally have agreements in place for a long-awaited heavyweight fight later this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-587019","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\/587019","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=587019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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