Tyson Fury: record, next fight and profile →
Frank Warren, co-promoter for WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, is not ready to confirm the recent news of a $150 million site fee, from Saudi Arabia, to host the highly anticipated unification with IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO champion Anthony Joshua.
Undisputed junior middleweight champion Claressa Shields is backing Anthony Joshua to defeat Tyson Fury in their highly anticipated heavyweight unification. The two champions have nearly finalized all of the details for their summer showdown, for the IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO, WBC world titles.
Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua will be paid record purses for heavyweights when they fight for all the titles in their division this summer. According to an ESPN.com report posted Saturday afternoon, the British heavyweights will split most of a site fee that’ll exceed $150 million. The deal isn’t finalized, but Fury and Joshua are expected to make approximately $75 million apiece for their highly anticipated showdown.
The Tyson Fury-Anthony Joshua fight it “100 percent happening” this summer according to Eddie Hearn. The fight for the undisputed world heavyweight champion is expected to take place in Saudia Arabia, probably Jeddah, on either July 24, 31 or August 7, after a site fee was agreed with backer in the country.
WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has continued to confidently back Billy Joe Saunders in the biggest fight of his career. Fury cautions that Saunders is a different breed of animal to anything that his upcoming opponent, Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez, has ever come across – ahead of their unification showdown next month.
WBA, WBO, IBF, IBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua would love to have Floyd Mayweather and Wladimir Klitschko at his training camp to help prepare him for his unification with WBC champion Tyson Fury.
The undisputed heavyweight world championship fight between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, which is close to the finish line on a site deal for the bout to take place this summer in Saudi Arabia, will be delivered to an American audience via ESPN+ pay-per-view in the United States, Top Rank chairman Bob Arum, Fury’s co-promoter, told BoxingScene on Monday.
An undisputed world heavyweight title fight between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury will be a bigger event than the Olympics, according to Eddie Hearn, who says that both sides have agreed to a site offer for the fight to take place this summer.
WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury believes that he once he lands flush, it won't take much to topple IBF, WBO, IBO, WBA champion Anthony Joshua. Fury and Joshua are in the process of finalizing the details for a unification showdown - being targeted to take place in the summer.
Former two division world champion David Haye is backing Anthony Joshua to beat Tyson Fury in a potential heavyweight unification in the summer. The two champions have agreed to collide for the WBO, IBF, WBA, WBC, IBO titles in a two-fight deal.