Eddie Hearn, promoter and agent to Anthony Joshua has
revealed the British-Nigerian boxing champion wants to fight Tyson Fury next,
after watching Fury sensationally defeat Deontay Wilder in 7 round knock out on
Sunday morning at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.
It was the second time Fury and Wilder were fighting, after
getting a draw in the first clash in December 2018, and with the win Fury now
has the WBC heavyweight belt while still retaining the Lineal and Ring magazine
heavyweight championship belt.
Fury's win now means Britain has all the belts in the boxing
heavyweight division and Hearn has revealed Joshua wants a unification bout
against Fury, a match that if agreed will determine the true king of the
heavyweight division.
Speaking on the Weekend Sports Breakfast show on Sunday
morning, Joshua’s promoter said he will go all out to set up a monster
all-British clash next.
“We have to make this
fight happen. We will never, ever get the chance for two Brits to fight for an
undisputed heavyweight world championship.
“I promise you we will do everything we can to make this
fight. It has to happen.”
Wilder has the option to take up a third fight with Fury
this summer, but Hearn hopes the American does not do so after he was well and
truly destroyed by Fury before his team threw in the towel in the seventh
round.
“I don’t think anyone wants to see a third fight because it
was that conclusive but we will see if he exercises that clause,” continued
Hearn.
“I probably expect Wilder to do that – I don’t see where
else he has to go.
“But our mandatory [IBF] challenger, Kubrat Pulev, is also
promoted by Bob Arum, like Tyson Fury, so there is a very easy manoeuvre there
if Wilder doesn’t accept the rematch to go straight into this undisputed fight
in the summer. That is what we have to push for initially.
“If Wilder comes back and says ‘no, I’m having my rematch’
then that is due for July or August, AND it doesn’t really matter because we
fight Pulev at Spurs in June and this fight happens in November/December. But
our preference is to go straight into it because if we went straight into it,
it would be undisputed.
“We will never get this opportunity in this sport to do this
again with two Brits.
“He has been through
everything already and he wants to be undisputed and this is the chance for our
sport to have one of those legacy moments that we will never get the
opportunity to have again.”
“I heard out of his camp he was going to be aggressive and
go for it and I thought it was absolute madness and it ended up being genius
from him and his team,” he said.
“Just a wonderful performance. What a time for British
boxing – an incredible night.
” I felt like he could school him but I didn’t think he could
school him and beat him up, and he did that.”
