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Eddie Hearn, promoter for IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, says the World Boxing Organization would make a big mistake by not jumping on board with a potential unification clash against WBC champion Tyson Fury.
Bob Arum, co-promoter of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, explains that his fighter has explicitly vowed to never face Deontay Wilder for a third time. In February 2020, Fury dropped and stopped Wilder in seven rounds to capture the WBC title at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Eddie Hearn, promoter for IBF, WBO, IBO, WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, has floated a different path for Oleksandr Usyk to pursue. Usyk, who currently hold the WBO's mandatory position, has yet to allow Joshua to move forward with a potential full division unification against WBC champion Tyson fury.
The biggest fight in British boxing history almost certainly will take place outside of the United Kingdom. As representatives for Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua inch closer toward complete agreement on contractual terms for their huge heavyweight title fight, it is becoming increasingly clearer that Fury-Joshua will be held at an undetermined venue in the Middle East. A Joshua-Fury fight would easily attract a capacity crowd of approximately 90,000 to Wembley Stadium in London, but bringing their fight for Fury’s WBC championship and Joshua’s IBF, IBO, WBA and WBO belts somewhere in the Middle East would make more sense financially.
Heavyweight contender Dillian Whyte is questioning the drive and desire of IBF, IBO, WBO, WBA world champion Anthony Joshua. Back in 2015, Joshua knocked Whyte out in the seventh round of their grudge match. In a recent interview, Joshua acknowledged that he was nearing the end of his career - with a five year period, at most, to continue in the sport.
World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman is salivating at the thought of the full division unification between WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and WBA, IBO, WBO, IBF champion Anthony Joshua. The fight is in serious negotiations with both sides confident that a deal can be reached in the near future.
Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, who co-promotes WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, is 95% confident that a deal will get finalized for full division unification with IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO champion Anthony Joshua.
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Oleksandr Usyk, the mandatory challenger for the WBO championship, is not backing away one inch from his ordered title shot. The current champion, Anthony Joshua, who also holds the WBA, IBO, IBF titles, is more interested in a full division unification with WBC world champion Tyson Fury.
Matchroom Boxing head Eddie Hearn says there is a 90% chance that the heavyweight unification fight between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury takes place in 2021. That said, there is a 100% chance Hearn and Joshua will first need to address the situation pertaining to Joshua’s WBO mandatory challenger in Oleksandr Usyk.