Warren: Fury-Usyk Fell Apart When Joshua Asked For Extra $5 Million
Frank Warren, co-promoter for WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, has fired back at some of the recent claims that were made by rival promoter Eddie Hearn.
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Eubank Jr: Anthony Joshua Still Has The Hunger, That Means A lot
Middleweight contender Chris Eubank Jr. recently spent some time training with former two-time unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua.
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Salita: If Joshua Steps Aside & Wants A Legitimate Opponent, He Should Fight Otto Wallin
If Tyson Fury, Oleksandr Usyk, Anthony Joshua, Dillian Whyte and all their representatives can defy odds (and logic) by somehow reaching an agreement before Friday’s WBC purse bid for the Fury-Whyte fight, Otto Wallin wants a chance comparable to the one that was taken from him three months ago.
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Vitali Klitschko: If Joshua Side-Stepped Usyk Rematch, It Would Show Weakness
Former WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko is urging Anthony Joshua to stay on course for a rematch with Oleksandr Usyk. Klitschko was ringside last September, to watch his countryman Usyk outbox Joshua over twelve rounds to capture the IBF, WBA, WBO, IBO world titles.
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Hearn: Money On Table For Undisputed Fight But Fury Doesn’t Want Usyk Next
Eddie Hearn says “the money is on the table” for a deal that would see Tyson Fury face Oleksandr Usyk for the undisputed world heavyweight title next, but he says the main block to negotiations is that Fury does not want to face Usyk next.
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Tyson Fury: Hearn, Joshua Worstest-Damn Businessmen In History; Today They Lost $90M!
Tyson Fury took to Instagram on Wednesday to express his displeasure with Anthony Joshua’s apparent refusal to accept step-aside money to allow an Oleksandr Usyk-Fury fight for full supremacy in the heavyweight division.
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Fury-Whyte: WBC Purse Bid Once Again Postponed Per Request From Both Camps
More time has been placed on the clock for Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte to reach a deal. Whether that results in a head-on collision or the pair of British heavyweights going their separate ways remains to be seen. Efforts to move forward with the WBC heavyweight title consolidation fight have resulted in yet another postponement, as BoxingScene.com has confirmed that a purse bid hearing scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed. The title fight more than three months in the making is now assigned a fifth purse bid date, with Wednesday’s session reportedly rescheduled for Friday, January 28.
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Usyk Promoter on Joshua Step Aside: ‘From a Business Side, Why Not?’
Alexander Krassyuk thinks it would make a lot of sense for Anthony Joshua to take a step aside fee. Krassyuk, the longtime promoter of WBO/WBA/IBF titlist Oleksandr Usyk, believes London’s Joshua should seriously consider taking financial compensation in return for relinquishing his immediate rematch rights with the Ukrainian in order to make way for an undisputed title match between Usyk and WBC beltholder Tyson Fury, however slim the possibility might be, and provided a legitimate offer – one in which all parties have signed off on – is actually on the table.
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Hearn on Joshua's New Training Team: 'I Just See This as a Tweak'
Eddie Hearn thinks that some of the speculation about his promotional client Anthony Joshua and the impending overhaul of his corner is overblown.
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Team Fury Still Hopeful Of Shot At Undisputed Championship As WBC Purse Bid Looms
Tyson Fury’s name is once again attached to a rumored undisputed championship showdown as a WBC mandatory title defense looms ahead. For the second time in less than a year, rumors have swirled of a potential step aside fee being considered by at least one party standing in the way of crowning the first ever undisputed heavyweight champion in the four-belt era. Such a bout would require England’s Fury—the reigning WBC and lineal champion—and Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk, who holds the WBA “Super”/IBF/WBO/IBO titles—to gain consent from their current linked opponents.
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