According to Anthony Joshua\u2019s promoter, Eddie Hearn, the British-Nigerian could fight Tyson Fury this year and is willing to make the bout immediately if Fury\u2019s proposed meeting with Oleksandr Usyk falls through.<\/p>\n
Talks were held over a meeting between Joshua and Fury following the former\u2019s second defeat to Usyk last August, but the Gypsy King ultimately faced Derek Chisora on his return to the ring in December, while Joshua will take on Jermaine Franklin in April.<\/span><\/p>\n A deal for Fury and Usyk to clash in the same month is reportedly close to being agreed, but Joshua\u2019s promoter Hearn is waiting in the wings if an agreement cannot be reached.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m happy to make Joshua and Fury right now for the summer, whether Fury wins or loses against Usyk,\u201d Hearn told BBC Sport.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIf the Usyk fight doesn\u2019t get made, our message to team Fury is that we\u2019ll make the fight now, for straight after the Franklin fight. Whatever way Tyson Fury wants to look at it, the fight with Joshua will give him the pay day he wants. He wants to make as much money as possible, and rightfully so, he\u2019s a fantastic fighter.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe fight with Joshua breaks all records. I understand their focus is to make the Usyk fight, but we\u2019re ready if they want Joshua.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n While Saudi Arabia was initially suggested as a possible location for the Fury-Usyk fight, Wembley Stadium is now seen as the most likely venue, and Hearn believes the absence of Joshua has harmed the fighters\u2019 attempts to secure backing from the Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019ve obviously gone to the Middle East to get that money, and failed because Anthony Joshua is not involved in that fight, and now they\u2019ve gone to Wembley,\u201d Hearn added.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know how they get the numbers that Fury will demand for that fight, but if they can, brilliant. Hopefully for boxing it gets made because any time there\u2019s an undisputed clash it\u2019s great for the sport.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if they failed in their attempt to secure a big Middle East fight or whatever has happened, it\u2019s tremendous for British boxing if it does come home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to Anthony Joshua\u2019s promoter, Eddie Hearn, the British-Nigerian could fight Tyson Fury this year and is willing to make the bout immediately if Fury\u2019s proposed meeting with Oleksandr Usyk falls through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2392,6497],"class_list":["post-12210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-tyson-fury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12212,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12210\/revisions\/12212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}