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Former super middleweight champion Carl Froch believes Dillian Whyte should get the first crack at Tyson Fury in 2021. Whyte, who holds the WBC's interim-title, is the mandatory challenger to Fury's title.
Ivaylo Gotzev, co-promoter for heavyweight contender Kubrat Pulev, recently lashed out at Eddie Hearn - who promotes IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO world champion Anthony Joshua. Pulev is the IBF's mandatory challenger to Joshua.
Bob Arum, Dmitriy Salita and Greg Cohen aren’t the only promoters that had financial interests in Jarrell Miller’s ill-fated fight against Jerry Forrest. Eddie Hearn has revealed that he, too, was supposed to be paid a percentage of Miller’s purse when he fought Forrest on July 9 in Las Vegas. The British promoter informed IFL TV during an interview that was streamed recently on its YouTube channel that Miller still owes his company money Miller was fronted before he tested positive for three performance-enhancing drugs last year and was removed from a heavyweight title fight against Anthony Joshua.
Brad Jacobs, COO for Top Rank, believes a heavyweight unification between champions Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua would be a very big deal in the United States. The fight would easily sell out any stadium in the UK, but the contest would generate more money in a United States location like Las Vegas.
Dillian Whyte says he was enraged when he heard that a two-fight deal agreed for Tyson Fury to face Anthony Joshua and has questioned whether Eddie Hearn has done enough to push the case for him to get a shot at Fury’s WBC heavyweight title before Joshua.
Former world champion Amir Khan believes Anthony Joshua has to go for the kill if he intends to defeat Tyson Fury in a potential unification encounter. The teams behind Joshua and Fury are having ongoing discussions to finalize a two-fight agreement for 2021.
Eddie Hearn, promoter for IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, says the negotiations are going forward for a potential 2021 two-fight unification series with WBC champion Tyson Fury.
Frank Warren wants Tyson Fury to fight Anthony Joshua. Fury’s co-promoter stands to make plenty of money from their heavyweight showdown, which has been billed as the biggest fight in British boxing history. But beyond Fury and Joshua having to win respective fights against Deontay Wilder and Kubrat Pulev, and then potentially fulfilling other obligations, Warren wants fans to understand that there isn’t an actual agreement in place for Fury-Joshua.
Promoter Eddie Hearn is not in agreement with the recent statements that were made by WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury. In a recent interview, Fury explained that Deontay Wilder is the second best heavyweight in the weight class.
Frank Warren, co-promoter of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, believes his boxer is the best of his generation. If Warren had to place a wager, he would back Fury to defeat another British heavyweight great, former unified champion and Hall of Famer Lennox Lewis.