Anthony Joshua might delay his try to avenge his loss to IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois by going through Tyson Fury within the first half of 2025.
Promoter Eddie Hearn says he doesn’t need to make the rematch for AJ towards Dubois proper now as a result of there’s the likelihood that Fury may defeat unified champion Oleksandr Usyk of their rematch on December twenty first.
Hearn says that if Fury wins that battle, he wouldn’t need Joshua already signed up for a rematch with Dubois when he may tackle Tyson in Might “for the most important battle in boxing.”
The 36-year-old Fury is the underdog towards Usyk, and until he can discover the Fountain of Youth and drink closely from the youth-restoring waters, he’s prone to be blown out by the expertise of their rematch. Fury wants his youth to be restored to his 2015 kind, for when he picked up his greatest profession win, he beat Wladimir Klitschko.
The final two fights for Gyspy King have proven that he’s aged poorly, and he’s not able to profitable the second battle towards Usyk or beating any of the killers within the high 5. Even novice Francis Ngannou flat-out beat Fury however was given an old style controversial 10-round cut up loss final 12 months on October twenty eighth in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The way in which Fury carried out towards Usyk earlier this 12 months on Might 18th, he gained’t final lengthy of their rematch.
Fury will possible be destroyed by Usyk on December twenty first, making a battle between him and Joshua a joke for Might 2025, when Hearn is chomping on the bit to make the money-grab match.
“AJ desires revenge, however the one situation is timing. For the rematch to occur in February, coaching camp should begin in a few weeks,” stated Eddie Hearn to BBC Sport about why Anthony Joshua gained’t be taking the rematch with Daniel Dubois.
“There are all the time niggles, and he had a couple of, so bodily, it’s only a case of whether or not AJ is prepared to do this. It might be irritating if we made the Dubois rematch and Fury gained [the Usyk rematch]. Then we’re sitting there going, ‘Cling on a minute, we’re preventing Dubois, however we may have fought Fury in Might for the most important battle in boxing.’”
The underlying message is that Hearn doesn’t believe that Joshua can win the rematch towards Dubois. So, he’d slightly match AJ towards Fury to seize the loot as a substitute of placing him again in with the shark Dubois and watching him get torn aside once more.
