With the recent news that Tyson Fury has made a formal offer to Anthony Joshua for a battle between two of Britain’s biggest stars, promoter Frank Warren has confirmed that a deal is on the table for Joshua. Driving this offer appears to be the fact that Oleksandr Usyk is looking to take some time off after his most recent win over Joshua and Fury is looking to fight before the year is out.
But so far, the earliest hurdle is a preferred fight date, with Fury wanting to go in November and Joshua wanting to wait until at least December for his next outing.
“We have sent a formal offer to Matchroom [Joshua’s promoter] and I got a response late last night and everyone seems to be on the same page, we just have to work on the date,” Warren said. “Tyson insists on fighting in early November because he feels he will beat Joshua and then he wants to fight Usyk in the unification fight.”
Warren would go on to say that Fury’s offer is really like throwing Joshua a lifeline because it gives him the opportunity to immediately contend for another major world title instead of having to rebuild to that point. And considering Fury is supposedly open to a 60/40 split in his favor to make it happen, Warren says it’s a relative no-brainer.
“[The 60-40 split in Fury’s favour is] very, very fair. AJ should take it. It would have to be in a stadium and we are looking at two options”.
As of now, it looks like both sides at least have enough interest to engage in talks to see if anything can be worked out to make this fight possible, and if there is any talk of this fight picking up steam, we’ll be here with more information as it becomes available. available. .
