Promoter Eddie Hearn believes the fight between Anthony Joshua and Tyson will be “massive” even if Tyson loses his rematch with undisputed heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk on December 21. Eddie believes that the Joshua-Fury fight could still happen even if Fury suffers another defeat to Usyk.
According to Hearn, Fury will decide whether to continue his career and face Joshua after his second defeat to Usyk. With money still on the table for Fury (34-1-1, 24 KO) to pocket, it’s challenging to imagine him turning it down.
Taking cash after a loss?
The upcoming Fury-Joshua fight at that point would have been viewed by people as a money grab and many would have turned up their noses at booking it on PPV if Fury hadn’t redeemed himself in some way by beating a top heavyweight like Daniel Dubois. .
Unfortunately, this seems completely unrealistic as Dubois is too newborn, powerful and threatening for Fury, who turns 36 on August 12 and looks much older than his age.
A second defeat for the Gypsy King against Oleksandr would see Fury’s popularity plummet around the world, but not in the UK, where fans cling to their aging fighters.
Hearn must consider what could happen to Joshua if he pulls the trigger on the Dubois fight on September 21, as the fight could be a sure bet if AJ is cooked by the newborn talent.
Although Hearn doesn’t want to admit it, there is a very real possibility that Joshua and Fury will be defeated in their next fights, making the clash between them an old-timer fight. Do Hearn and Joshua want to stoop to the level of fighting Fury when both have suffered defeats? Are they so necessary?
Hearn remains hopeful
“No, I think we will. It will be up to Tyson Fury,” said promoter Eddie Hearn iFL Television to the question of whether the Fury vs. Anthony Joshua fight will never happen if Tyson loses the rematch with Oleksandr Usyk on December 21.
Fury’s popularity will decline too far for a fight between him and Joshua to interest fans outside the UK if he is defeated in the rematch with Usyk.
Next time there will probably be no saving the Fury. Will Joshua and Hearn want to take on Fury if he gets knocked out by Usyk?
“If he wins this, he will obviously want to fight the Usyk-Fury winner unquestionably,” Hearn said of his plans for Joshua if he wins the September 21 fight at Wembley Stadium.
“Now, whether Fury wins or loses, AJ can still fight Fury in a huge fight, but a lot will depend on Tyson and how long he wants to fight because he is still quite newborn [nearing 36]but will he want to fight if he is defeated by Usyk? [again]Hearn said.
Eddie needs to see the bigger picture because there is a huge chance that both Joshua and Fury will lose their next fights, making their “mass fight” the equivalent of a geriatric exhibition. Fans, at least those outside the UK, won’t want to pay to see it.
“Does he want to throw it in? Does he want to come back and fight [Joshua]? Was [AJ] okay,” Hearn said. “We know we will continue next year and see what happens after that. We want a plan. We don’t like to have one fight and no plan.
Hearn talks about a plan for Joshua, but it seems likely that he will try to pick up the pieces of AJ’s career, getting him back into the next phase of his rebuild following his September 21 loss to Dubois.
“That’s why we’re already talking about what will happen next if we manage to win in September. AJ-Usyk, if so [Joshua] he will win in September,” Hearn said when asked what the second most essential fight after Fury-Joshua was.
Who are the 10 best heavyweight fighters in the world today?
IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois defended his title for the first time, defeating Anthony Joshua on September 21. From the doorstep, Dubois looked keen and composed. He dominated the action from start to finish, losing to Joshua four times along the way, the last of which earned him an impressive and dramatic knockout victory. The upset victory sent shockwaves through the heavyweight landscape, where Joshua was widely viewed as a top three heavyweight. However, this is no longer the case.
The current reigning heavyweight king is Oleksandr Usyk. In his last fight, which took place in May, Usyk received a 12-round split decision against Tyson Fury. This victory gave Usyk the undisputed heavyweight title of the world, and Usyk became the first undisputed heavyweight champion since the great Lennox Lewis last held the distinction almost a quarter of a century earlier. Just over a month after winning the undisputed crown, Usyk vacated the IBF title, which currently belongs to Usyk’s former victim, Dubois.
Usyk is still the reigning WBA/WBO/WBC unified world champion and lineal heavyweight world champion, and his next fight is scheduled for December 21, which will be broadcast on DAZN.
2024 is shaping up to be a great year for heavyweight boxing, one of the best in a long time. More and more top heavyweights are regularly facing other top heavyweights, which is a good thing for the heavyweight division. Turki Al-Sheikh deserves a lot of credit because his interest in boxing helped finance many fights that we might not otherwise have seen, which was especially true in the heavyweight division. Let’s hope Turki continues to invest in heavyweight boxing (and boxing in general) where fans will be able to see more fascinating fights that are in high demand.
So who are the 10 best heavyweights competing in the world today?
This release Rummy Corner will attempt to answer this question while providing a quick overview of the current heavyweight landscape. Watch and enjoy the video to hear one man’s opinion. This is Rummy’s Corner (produced and narrated by Geoffrey Ciani).
IS Nick Ball’s fight against Ronny Rios a done deal?
On Saturday night (October 5), Ball will defend his WBA featherweight title for the first time against Rios in Liverpool. Not only will the champions have home-field advantage, but Liverpool will also have thousands of Scousers cheering them on at the M&S Bank Arena.
Ball’s first defense came after his impressive victory over Raymond Ford, where the split decision went in Ball’s favor. Rios is seven years older than the current champion and is fighting outside America for the first time in his professional career. The 34-year-old has also enjoyed good company over the years, fighting against Rey Vargas, Azat Hovhannisyan and Murodjon Akhmadaliev in the super bantamweight division. The last two managed to beat Rios at the distance, and Vargas won on points.
Rios stayed at 126 pounds as a featherweight from 2009 to 2016 before competing for world titles at 122 pounds. Ball, however, may prove to be the bigger player on Saturday night.
At the time of writing (Monday, September 30), 81.63 percent of Boxing News app users believe Ball will win by KO or TKO. If Scouser does so, it will be his first non-point win since stopping Ludumo Lamati four fights ago in May 2023.
Meanwhile, 17.01 percent of our app users believe Ball will win on points, while less than one percent believe Rios will win by points or distance.
The fight scheduled for last weekend has already hit the auction block.
The Ring has confirmed that the WBC cruiserweight title fight between Noel Mikaeljan and Ryan Rozicki is up for bidding again. The two were scheduled to meet on September 28 at the Don King Productions concert at Casino Miami Jai Alai in Miami, Florida.
No reason was given for the program’s cancellation. Either way, it was enough that King, Mikaeljan’s promoter, was found to have reneged on the original contract.
Rozicki is promoted by Daniel Otter’s Three Lions Promotions.
The fallout was the fourth time the fight missed its scheduled date. There were problems with a cut suffered by Mikaeljan (27-2, 12 knockouts) during training camp, which disrupted plans for their June 7 meeting. It was agreed to postpone the date in exchange for finding a novel opponent for Rozicki.
Three postponements later, the patience of Rozicki’s team had long since run out.
“We now hope that we win the bid and Ryan becomes the WBC world champion,” Otter told The Ring.
Mikaeljan, rated 200 by The Ring at No. 2, was scheduled to defend his title for the first time. The 33-year-old Armenian won the belt with a third-round defeat of former titleholder Ilunga Makabu on November 4 in his adopted hometown of Miami.
He remains the only busy titleholder on King’s current promotional lineup.
Rozicki (20-1, 19 KO) will fight for the second title fight in his career, either in the USA or on his home field.
The 29-year-old from Ontario, Canada has won seven in a row since losing to Oscar Rivas in October 2021. Their fierce fight was the inaugural fight for the WBC bridgeweight title.
Rozicki was to fight outside Canada for the first time in his career. His team’s intention now is to keep the fight north of the border.
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