Anthony Joshua may delay his revenge bid against IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois by facing Tyson Fury in the first round of 2025.
Promoter Eddie Hearn says he doesn’t want a rematch between AJ and Dubois right now because it’s possible Fury could beat joint champion Oleksandr Usyk in their rematch on December 21.
Hearn says that if Fury wins that fight, he won’t want Joshua to sign up for a rematch with Dubois when he faces Tyson in May in “the biggest fight in boxing.”
The 36-year-old Fury is inferior to Usyk, unless he can find him The Fountain of Youth and drink too much of the water that restores youth, they may be beaten by skill in their rematch. Fury needs his youth back to his 2015 form, because when he got his best success, he beat Wladimir Klitschko.
Gyspy King’s last two fights have shown that he doesn’t age well, and he can’t win a second fight against Usyk or beat any of the top five fighters. Even rookie Francis Ngannou defeated Fury but was handed a controversial 10-fight losing streak last year on October 28 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The way Fury did to Usyk earlier this year on May 18, he won’t last long in their rematch.
Fury is likely to be destroyed by Usyk on December 21st, making a fight between him and Joshua a joke in May 2025, when Hearn is slowly pushing to make a match. to hold money compare.
“AJ wants revenge, but the problem is that time is running out. For the rematch to take place in February, training will have to start in a few weeks,” said Eddie Hearn speaking to BBC Sport about why Anthony Joshua will not take a rematch with Daniel Dubois.
“There’s always niggles, and he’s had a few, so physically, it’s just a matter of whether AJ is ready to do that. It would be disappointing if we had a repeat of Dubois and Fury won [the Usyk rematch]. And then we’re sitting there, ‘Wait a minute, we’re fighting Dubois, but we could have fought Fury in May for the biggest fight in boxing.'”
The underlying message is that Hearn is not confident Joshua can win a rematch with Dubois. So, he’d rather match AJ with Fury to take the spoils instead of putting him back in the middle of the shark Dubois and watching him suffer again.
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