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Frank Warren, who co-promotes WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, sent the fight contracts to Anthony Joshua’s handlers.
If everything is signed and finalized, the fight is expected to take place later in the year in the UK, with Fury getting a 60-40 money split.
At the moment, Warren says that Joshua and his team are reviewing the contracts.
“The contracts have been sent to the Anthony Joshua team. They will have arrived on Friday morning. Now we look forward to getting them reviewed and signed so we can put on one of the biggest events in British boxing,” Warren told The Daily Star.
“Since the Queen’s passing, Tyson has been respectful and upholding her advice as we work through the deal behind the scenes. The next step was to send the contracts that we promised Joshua would be coming soon. I don’t anticipate there will be any problems. We all want this fight to happen.”
Joshua, now ranked by the WBC, is eligible to fight for his world title.
“The WBC title will be on the line, but this will be as much about the bragging rights between the pair. For years we’ve wanted this to happen and we were close before, but now seems like the time when it’s finally going to happen,” Warren said.
Fury is a huge favorite to win the fight.
Joshua, a former two-time world heavyweight champion, has lost three of his five fights, and is coming off back-to-back decision losses to WBO, IBO, WBA and IBF champion Oleksandr Usyk.
Fury initially wanted to face Usyk in an undisputed fight, but the Ukrainian champion does not plan to fight again until the first quarter of 2023.
