{"id":335723,"date":"2026-09-02T07:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/335723\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T07:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:14:07","slug":"tyson-fury-confirms-anthony-joshua-fight-at-nycs-madison-square-garden-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/335723\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury confirms Anthony Joshua fight at NYC\u2019s Madison Square Garden | Boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">No date has been set for the all-British heavyweight boxing showdown but it is expected to be held in November.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"avatar\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/author\/anushe-engineer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/9CCFACC4-9AF1-4DF1-A8A0-5BF6FAF35DA7-1771152681.jpeg\"   aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published On 2 Sep 20262 Sep 2026<\/p>\n<p>Former world heavyweight champion Tyson \u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060Fury has confirmed that his long-awaited heavyweight boxing showdown with fellow Briton Anthony Joshua will take place at New York City\u2019s iconic Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>No exact date has been set for the Joshua vs Fury fight \u2014 one of the biggest in British boxing history \u2014 although it is expected to be held in November after both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/sports\/2026\/4\/27\/anthony-joshua-to-fight-tyson-fury-in-november-hearn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed a contract<\/a> with Turki Alalshikh, Saudi Arabia\u2019s General Entertainment Authority chairman.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat a place, what a venue, what a fight,\u201d Fury said in a post on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Fury called New York City \u201cthe land of opportunity\u201d, but fans criticised him in comments on the post as they questioned why an all-British fight was being held in the US, and not at a location like Wembley Stadium in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Fury, who \u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060turned 38 in August, has won 36 \u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060professional bouts, suffering his \u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060only losses in two fights with Ukraine\u2019s Oleksandr Usyk in 2024. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/sports\/2026\/1\/4\/former-world-boxing-champion-tyson-fury-comes-out-of-retirement-again\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced his return<\/a> to boxing in January, having retired from the sport in December 2024 after losing to Usyk in a bout for three of the four major world titles.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua and Fury were unable to agree on terms in 2021, and plans for the face-off fell apart after a US judge ruled Fury had to face Deontay Wilder in a trilogy fight instead.<\/p>\n<p>In the lead-up to the Joshua showdown, Fury\u00a0forced Polish opponent Mariusz Wach to retire in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/sports\/2026\/7\/24\/fury-dominates-wach-in-thailand-boxing-bout-ahead-of-joshua-showdown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tune-up \u2060\u2060\u2060\u2060bout<\/a> in July attended by some 1,500 fans at the Max Muay Thai Stadium in Pattaya, Thailand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No date has been set for the all-British heavyweight boxing showdown but it is expected to be held&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4629,5886,9,56,63,65,64,4875,5878,2272],"class_list":["post-335723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-boxing","tag-europe","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-sport","tag-united-kingdom","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}