Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn says he needs former heavyweight champions Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury to battle twice in 2025, whatever the final result of Fury’s rematch with Oleksandr Usyk on December twenty first.
Hearn factors out that if Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs) is victorious in opposition to unified three-belt heavyweight champion Usyk of their rematch on the Kingdom Enviornment in Riyadh, it makes the Joshua battle greater.
“I feel Fury vs AJ is the battle regardless, in all honesty. Individuals maintain telling me, ‘Ah, AJ’s not rematching Dubois now’ — not true. AJ’s not rematching Dubois on Feb. 22; he nonetheless needs to battle him, and AJ will return in Could or June, and that is likely to be in opposition to Daniel Dubois, nonetheless the most important battle on the market for Dubois. However we additionally perceive that the Fury battle is a monster and can all the time be a monster,” stated Hearn to iFL TV.
“Win or lose for Fury [Usyk on December 21st], I feel these two ought to battle twice subsequent yr. But when Fury can do the enterprise, that makes Fury vs AJ for the unified heavyweight title, and that may be big.”