Former two division champion David Haye views Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua as the biggest fight in the history of the heavyweight division.
That contest would create the first undisputed heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis beat Evander Holyfield in 1999.
Joshua holds the WBA, WBO, IBF, IBO heavyweight titles, while Fury is the WBC world champion.
Both champions have scheduled assignments coming up.
Joshua will make a mandatory defense of his titles against Kubrat Pulev on June 20th, and Fury will take part in a trilogy fight with Deontay Wilder - likely on July 18th.
Should both champions win, then a unification would be possible at the end of the year or in 2021.
“I believe the fight with AJ and Tyson Fury will happen in 2021, and it will be the biggest ever heavyweight championship fight. Numbers wise I can’t think of a bigger fight,” said Haye to Surrey Comet.
“This will be two prime champions going at it, it goes beyond all expectations for numbers. Wherever it will be it will make significant money and it will be a fight that every single sports fan will want to be a part of. He [Joshua] will want his chance, he will want to get in there and prove that he’s number one, he wants to prove he’s the best in the world.
“He jumped back into the ring with Andy Ruiz after his one and only loss and proved that the first fight was a bit of an anomaly,, and he was significantly better than what that performance suggested in Madison Square Garden.”
Fury made a statement last month, when he stopped Wilder in the seventh round. Haye is surprised that Wilder exercised a contractual clause for an immediate trilogy fight.
“I didn’t think Wilder would want to jump back in there again but thinking about it where else is there for him to go?” Haye added.
“He got so conclusively beaten, I had Fury winning every second of the fight. From the very first bell he ran across and took control and he systematically broke him up and basically forced his corner to make him quit.”
“I believe once the Wilder rematch is concluded with, I’m pretty sure, Fury winning the third fight of theirs, and Anthony Joshua fights Pulev, and the winner of Usyk and Chisora, I think we’ve got ourselves some very interesting contests.”