The long-awaited heavyweight title unification between WBC champion Tyson Fury and WBA/IBF/WBO champion Anthony Joshua has been signed. “All parties have now put pen to paper and we will be working hard over the next few weeks to confirm the site and date for the biggest fight in boxing,” Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn told Sky Sports.
Fury and Joshua inked a two-fight deal. The Middle East is considered the front-running location to land the first bout, which would take place in the summer with a 50/50 split. For the rematch, the winner gets 60/40.
Like I say, I will believe it when I hear the sound of the bell for round 1!!!! So much conjecture and let downs leading up to this showdown.
I understand your cautious optimism but these two have always shown a willingness to take risks so I’m confident it happens. I hope there are lots of fans.
Like I say, let’s hope it happens!
This should be a good one. However my dream match wouls be Usik Vs Ruiz… maybe sometime soon…..
That’s a good match up. I would favour Usyk. You need good boxing skills to beat Ruiz, which he has.
Usyk has exceptional boxing skills and can frustrate Ruiz. I am not real confident Usyk could hurt Ruiz due to his style of fighting. However, Ruiz, on the other hand, could hurt Usyk since Ruiz has some “pop” in his right hand when he sets it up.
Fury in 2! He schooled Wilder in the 2nd fight and will do the same to Joshua.
Yes, Fury all the way in this one. Fury will jab him to death and slowly take Joshua out of his game plan. In fact, fight may even be boring since Fury will school him on the outside.
Two of the biggest fights are back to back. Dang, both are awesome fighters and even tho Ruiz beat AJ the first time out, people think AJ has niomchin but he does have a pretty solid chin. Ruiz hurt AJ with a hard shot to the temple that took AJ’s capabilities away the rest of the fight. I see Tyson Fury winning the both fights here.
Why is anyone talking about an obese, un-prepared, non-competitive Ruiz?????
kinda what you’re doing.
Pending an enormous site fee.
Lets hope it happens
Hope it happens , gonna be a great one if so! I say Fury KOs AJ in 8 but ya never know.
As a fan this news pissed me off. A lot of fans wanted to see Wilder VS AJ before both suffered a loss. Some of us still do, but that can wait. The main sticking point was Wilder wanting a 50/50 cut and Hearns said that would never happen. Now fast forward and Fury gets the cut? Im happy for Fury, but this really shows Hearns never wanted the Wilder fight. Hopefully moving forward we will finally see the matches we want.
You forget just how low profile Wilder was at that time. It’s only the Fury fights that gave him any pulling power with the mainstream. When AJ was still unbeaten and before Fury Wilder 1, it would have been ludicrous business to give Wilder 50/50 split. Fury Wilder 1 didn’t even sell out the arena (this was a travesty really). I actually went to the Wilder Breazeale fight and that was nowhere near a sell out. AJ sold out 90,000 at Wembley and then sold out MSG vs Ruiz. If Wilder had beaten Fury, 50/50 would have been fair.
I can’t even argue that. Also considering AJ knocked out Wladimir. Even though he was older he was still gamed.
Joshua and Bum Squad can fight each other after Fury beats AJ. Fury. Is going to take both of their “0’s” and hes going to do it with ease. Bum Squad isn’t even worth mentioning anymore, he’s nothing more than a club fighter anyways.
C’mon now. That’s unfair. He’s still the Heavyweight Champion of Alabama…
Ummmm, I think AJ’s ‘0’ has already gone!
AJ already lost. He got knocked out by Ruiz are you just a fury fanboy?
Hearn said at the time that even though he felt that neither Fury or Wilder were deserving of the 50/50 split , that AJ may be open to that split to the winner , such was his desire for the fight.
Regardless of whether the winner would or would not beat AJ he would only be bringing one of the 4 belts (although it could be argued Fury has the Ring belt and is the lineal champ).
Wilder and Fury’s PPV/Live attendance figures are dwarfed by AJs.
Hearn has always said that his fighter is his boss (in this case AJ). He probably said at one point that Wilder would never receive parity but that was when Wilder hadn’t fought anyone besides Ortiz who had himself beaten no one of significance.
But Hearn clearly said in an interview before one of the Fury/Wilder fights that a 50/50 split was not out of the question.
Wilder himself should have taken the money that was on offer to fight AJ in 2019 – had he won both fights or either fight he’d be in a great position now.
I used to think that Finkel and co were protecting Wilder but now it seems to me that they were just fall guys for what Wilder actually wanted. I didn’t see any hunger in him to try and get the Fury rematch sorted. Sure you can say Fury was the same but he was the winner.
I will begin to keep open my eyes and ears. Let’s hope Fury vs. Joshua will truly happen. If Fury displays discipline inside/outside camp, I will pick him to win.
AJ will win the fight if Fury doesn’t have the confidence of having ‘funny’ gloves. Fury got in trouble with much less fighters than AJ. Fury is likely self-destructing as we speak and will train only to get the excess weight off. Fury has a habit of self sabotaging his career.
The fight was “signed” the last time they made an annoucement. When the press conference happens then it was “signed”.