
Canelo Backs Joshua To Overcome Fury in The Late Rounds
Mexican superstar Saul "Canelo" Alvarez is backing IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua to come away with a victory when he faces WBC world champion Tyson Fury.
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Mexican superstar Saul "Canelo" Alvarez is backing IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua to come away with a victory when he faces WBC world champion Tyson Fury.

Eddie Hearn, promoter for IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, is gaining confidence that a deal will be finalized for a full division unification with WBC champion Tyson Fury. Hearn is currently in serious discussions with Fury's co-promoters, Bob Arum of Top Rank and Frank Warren of Queensberry Promotions.

As previously reported, WBC interim-heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin will be ready to fight by the early spring. Povetkin was in action back in August, when he knocked out Dillian Whyte in five rounds at Matchroom's Fight Camp in Brentwood.

The year is coming to a close and the biggest fight being discussed for 2021 is a full division unification between heavyweight world champions Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua. The respective camps of both boxers are in active discussions to finalize a two-fight agreement.

Andrey Ryabinsky, the promoter for WBC interim-heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin, believes Oleksandr Usyk is a bit too small to compete with the big men of the weight class. Usyk, a former undisputed cruiserweight champion, moved up to heavyweight in 2019 with a stoppage win over late replacement Chazz Witherspoon.

Anthony Joshua continues to amplify his desire to face Tyson Fury in his next fight – whenever that is. The British superstar drew criticism for declining to call out Fury after his ninth-round demolition of Kubrat Pulev on Dec. 12 at the SSE Arena in London. Since then, Joshua has made the media rounds to clarify his stance, insisting that he has every intention to face the “Gypsy King” immediately in what would be the biggest all-British heavyweight fight in recent memory and an opportunity to settle the “undisputed” label (Joshua own the WBO, IBF, and WBA belts, while Fury owns the WBC belt).

As the year comes to a close, the IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is looking forward to a potential full division unification with WBC champion Tyson Fury in 2021.

Eddie Hearn couldn’t help but laugh. Anthony Joshua’s promoter expected Bob Arum to at least give Joshua some credit for his impressive performance against Kubrat Pulev on Saturday night in London. Arum, Pulev’s co-promoter, repeatedly predicted Pulev would ruin the Joshua-Tyson Fury fight by upsetting the IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion.

Former undisputed heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk, 33-years-old, is hoping to fight the best boxers in the weight class - and one of them is former heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder.

The biggest heavyweight fight in British history may not happen on British soil, due to the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, warns promoter Eddie Hearn. Shortly after Hearn’s ace client Anthony Joshua downed Kubrat Pulev by ninth-round stoppage of a mandatory defense at the SSE Arena in London on Dec. 12, the attention of the boxing world shifted once more to a potential heavyweight unification clash between Joshua and countryman Tyson Fury.