Anthony Joshua: record, next fight and profile →
Promoter Eddie Hearn said Anthony Joshua is likely going to start training later this month ahead of a return to the ring in May or June.
Promoter Eddie Hearn is unsure that Tyson Fury will stick to the retirement announcement he posted on Monday, and believes it could merely be a ploy to up the ante for a Fury-Anthony Joshua fight.
As lineal and unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk was making his exit from Saturday's Ring magazine awards in London, he offered his thoughts on a potential Tyson Fury-Anthony Joshua matchup.
The 35-year-old Joshua says a fight with domestic rival Tyson Fury has to happen in 2025 as both approach retirement.
Eddie Hearn expects Anthony Joshua to return to the ring in the summer against Tyson Fury or in a rematch with Daniel Dubois
Logic dictates that we're rapidly closing in on the end of the current heavyweight era, as each of Oleksandr Usyk, Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder edge towards middle age. But might we still be talking about them this time next year?
Anthony Joshua says he will "keeping riding the wave" this year
As 2024 gives way to 2025, we’re in an interesting place with these modern heavyweights – a place somewhat similar to where we were exactly 25 years ago, when 1999 became 2000 and all of our computers continued functioning despite great fears to the contrary.
It hasn't been sweetness and light for everyone in the last 12 months. The BoxingScene writers name some of those within boxing who will be glad to see the back of 2024
According to at least one BoxingScene commenter, we are presently in the midst of the “worst heavyweight era ever.” Not all opinions are good ones, of course, and brief recourse to a history book – and to the series of heavyweight main events to which we’ve been treated over the past five years – should be sufficient to disabuse anyone of that particular viewpoint.