Tyson Fury: record, next fight and profile →
Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach has revealed that he made up with heavyweight contender Tyson Fury. Roach had assisted Fury with last year's camp to prepare for the December fight with WBC world champion Deontay Wilder at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.
Deontay Wilder believes a fight with Anthony Joshua to determine the undisputed heavyweight champion is inevitable. Joshua was scheduled to defend his WBA, IBF, IBO and WBO titles against Jarrell Miller on June 1. However, that contest has been thrown into doubt by the American returning an "adverse finding" in a test conducted last month by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA). Miller denied any wrongdoing and has appealed against a decision to deny him a boxing licence.
Bob Arum and Eddie Hearn have traded insults the past few weeks, but that hasn’t prevented them from doing business together. The Top Rank and Matchroom Boxing leaders co-promoted Friday’s Vasiliy Lomachenko-Anthony Crolla lightweight match and also come together for the Terence Crawford-Amir Khan welterweight pay-per-view bout on April 20. The two sides are also discussing a super middleweight unification bout between Gilberto Ramirez and Callum Smith.
WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder is confident that he would wipe out Tyson Fury if they faced off an a rematch. They collided last December at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California - in the main event of a Showtime Pay-Per-View card. Wilder and Fury fought to a controversial twelve round split draw, with both boxers claiming to have been robbed of a win.
Promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Sport has broken down his top five heavyweights in the division. Hearn promotes several heavyweights - including IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO champion Anthony Joshua, soon to be heavyweight Oleksandr Usyk, and has a fight by fight deal with Dillian Whyte.
Top contender Dillian Whyte is targeting the big names in the heavyweight division. One of the fighters that he would like to face is Tyson Fury, who views himself as the lineal heavyweight champion. Fury is considered by some observers as the uncrowned champion, because he defeated Wladimir Klitschko by way of a twelve round decision in November of 2015. At the time Klitschko ruled the division, unbeaten, for over a decade.
British boxing legend Prince Naseem Hamed believes heavyweight contender Tyson Fury is without question the best fighter in his respective division. Last December, Fury fought WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder to a controversial twelve round split draw. There were many pundits who saw Fury, despite going down twice in the fight, as the rightful winner.
A grand arrival is officially in store for Tyson Fury’s Las Vegas debut. The unbeaten heavyweight from England will play Sin City for the first time in his career, with his June 15 clash with Germany’s Tom Schwarz officially landing at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. The destination for the ESPN+ card was confirmed through MGM Grand Hotel’s corporate office on Monday.
By Tris Dixon - WHO would be a fan of the heavyweight division? Who is chomping at the bit to watch Deontay Wilder-Dominic Breazeale, Tyson Fury-Thomas Schwarz and Anthony Joshua-Jarrell Miller? Who has Showtime/ITV, ESPN/BT Sport and DAZN/Sky Sports? What numbers will those fights do? H...
Eddie Hearn, promoter of IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, has rejected suggestions that Tom Schwarz was every mentioned as a potential opponent for the unified champ - at least in the last few years.