On their respective social media accounts, Tyson Fury’s Matchroom and Anthony Joshua’s 258 Management announced that the two management teams had agreed to a probable December 3 bout.
Due to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, communication relating to the bout had been halted by the authorities, to which Frank Warren, Fury’s promoter, replied, “Contract will be with you very soon.”
In a challenge last week, Fury gave Joshua two dates to pick from November 26 at Wembley Stadium or December 3 at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium. Fury’s local opponent accepted the challenge.
The Gypsy King then reaffirmed his intention to retire before telling the WBC that he would start over at the end of the previous month. This revelation surfaced after Fury celebrated his return home by defeating Dillian Whyte in the sixth round at Wembley in April.
On the other hand, Joshua, who suffered a split decision defeat to Usyk in last month’s rematch, entered the WBC rankings at No. 6 this week, which made Tyson Fury take to social media to challenge Anthony Joshua to a fight in what he says would be a “Battle of Britain”.
They updated their Twitter handle on Tuesday morning, September 13th, 2022, to confirm the finality of the decision reached by the management of the two popular boxes.
Per a caption seen by editors of www.atspo.com @258mgt, “258 and @MatchroomBoxing can confirm, on behalf of @anthonyjoshua, that we accepted all terms presented to us by Fury’s team for a fight Dec 3rd last Friday. Due to the Queen’s passing, it was agreed to halt all communication. We are awaiting a response.”
The match was supposed to take place in August 2021, but it was cancelled after an arbitration court ruled that Deontay Wilder was legally entitled to a third fight versus Fury, which the American heavyweight would go on to lose by 11th-round knockout.
After both management and employees agreed to go, Sky Sports analyst Johnny Nelson issued a statement. As he put it, “If this fight doesn’t happen, the buck stops with the fighters, not their management team, not their extended team, but them. Tyson Fury said ‘let’s do it, Anthony Joshua said ‘let’s do it, so if for any reason this fight doesn’t happen it falls on the shoes of the fighters. Now the realisation of it. If I’m in Anthony Joshua’s team I probably wouldn’t advise him to do it, it’s a great opportunity, but you’re coming off two losses, his head is all over the place.”
