Anthony Joshua: record, next fight and profile →
For Deontay Wilder, Anthony Joshua is as synthetic as they get. The former WBC heavyweight titlist from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, suggested in a recent interview that he believes the achievements in the career of London’s Joshua have largely been manufactured, saying, in essence, that there is more
Frank Warren, who co-promotes WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, has sent over the fight contracts to the handlers of Anthony Joshua.
Eddie Hearn says he is working on the assumption that the fight between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua will go ahead, even though he still has a plan B if it all falls through.
Deontay Wilder is apparently still all ears for a fight with Anthony Joshua, despite their bad blood. In a recent interview, the former heavyweight from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, affirmed that his interest in a bout with London’s Joshua, also a former titlist, remains high. The two were seemingly engaged in serious negotiations in 2018 but their efforts were ultimately unsuccessful. Since then both sides have accused the other of bungling those talks.
As far as Anthony Joshua and Co. are concerned, the ball is now firmly in Tyson Fury’s court. Earlier this week, representatives of the former heavyweight champion from London announced that they agreed to all of the terms that had been laid out by WBC heavyweight titlist Fury and his promoter Frank Warren of Queensberry Promotions for an all-British fight at the end of the year.
Heavyweight contender Joe Joyce has changed his prediction about a potential showdown between domestic rivals Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua. Fury and Joshua are in talks to collide on December 3 at Cardiff's Principality Stadium.
Former IBF heavyweight champion Charles Martin is pushing forward with the strong belief that he has a 'chance against anyone' in the weight class - including top names like Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua.
The World Boxing Council has finally ranked Anthony Joshua in their top ten - which WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman explains was done because the British star is no longer aligned with another sanctioning body.
Anthony Joshua’s management company say that they have accepted terms for a fight with Tyson Fury at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff on December 3. 258 Management tweeted that they accepted terms last Friday but that it was agreed to halt all communications due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Last week, Fury, the WBC champion, had given Joshua, the two-time WBA, WBO and IBF champion, 24 hours to accept terms for a fight, offering him the short end of 60-40 on all takings for a fight on November 24 or December 3, with a rematch clause that would be on a 50-50 basis. Joshua, who lost his rematch to Oleksandr Usyk in Jeddah on August 20, had originally asked for December 17.
Angel Fernandez is optimistic that Anthony Joshua will bounce back from one of the toughest losses of his career. In fact, the trainer of the former heavyweight champion from London is certain that Joshua will "definitely" defeat Oleksandr Usyk if they ever get in the ring together again.