Promoter reveals surprising venue and date for Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua
Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua Set for Dublin Showdown
Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua have reportedly agreed to finally meet in the ring this autumn—but in a surprising twist, organizers have chosen Dublin instead of the UK as the host city.
Both former heavyweight champions remain major figures in boxing despite accumulating six losses between them. They came close to fighting multiple times, most notably in 2021 when they held all the major belts, and fans have continued to demand the matchup ever since.
Why Dublin? A Surprising Venue Choice
Fury’s strong Irish connections—through his heritage and amateur boxing career—make Dublin a meaningful location for him. Still, promoters rarely stage major pay-per-view boxing events there, and many expected a blockbuster fight of this magnitude to take place in London or Manchester.
By choosing Dublin, organizers may have found neutral ground that satisfies both camps. However, fans continue to hope that promoters might still reconsider the venue before final confirmation.
Promoter Confirms Fight Plans
During a press conference ahead of Derek Chisora vs Deontay Wilder, veteran promoter Kalle Sauerland revealed key details about the long-anticipated fight.
Speaking to IFL TV, Sauerland stated that organizers have already finalized the deal, including the date and venue.
He also highlighted the stakes for Chisora and Wilder, noting that the winner could face Oleksandr Usyk next.
Sauerland later confirmed that Fury vs Joshua is “done” for autumn in Dublin—a claim reporter Joe Pugh reinforced, suggesting a September or October timeline.
Potential Mega Event in Ireland
The Dublin event could grow into a historic boxing spectacle. Katie Taylor may also fight on the card as she eyes a career finale at Croke Park, a venue capable of hosting over 82,000 fans.
Promoter Frank Warren has also teased additional major fights, including one involving Pierce O’Leary. He even hinted at a rare collaboration with Matchroom Boxing and Eddie Hearn, which could elevate the event into one of Europe’s biggest boxing nights.
What This Means for Fans
If confirmed, Fury vs Joshua in Dublin would mark one of the most significant heavyweight clashes in recent years—both for its long-awaited nature and its unexpected location.
While the venue choice has divided opinion, the fight itself remains one of the most anticipated matchups in modern boxing.
Tyson Fury has predicted the fight between Derek Chisora and Deontay Wilder, saying the American is “finished”.
Both boxers have passed their prime and are over forty years of age. With each of them moving forward into what will be their 50th contest. Wilder holds a record of 44 wins, four losses and one draw, including 43 knockouts, while Chisora has 36 wins and 13 defeats, 23 of them by knockout.
Chisora, who has not won a world title in his career and lost to the likes of Dillian Whyte and Tyson Fury, is in great form with victories over Gerald Washington, Joe Joyce and Otto Wallin in recent times.
Meanwhile, former WBC champion Deontay Wilder has only one win in his last five fights, losing to Fury two times and once to Zhilei Zhang, all by knockout, and to Joseph Parker by points.
Tyson Fury, who has fought both boxers, predicted Chisora as the winner, saying Wilder is finished.
“I fancy Derek [to win]. I know Wilder is finished. He should have retired in 2021 after his last defeat [against me]. He didn’t and he’s ended up paying the price for a small amount of money, which he probably didn’t really need, but whatever. I don’t like to say what a man can and can’t earn in his life,” Fury said.
“Once you’re gone, you’re gone, and he’s completely shot to bits. I saw that against Joe [Parker] and I saw it against Zhang. When you get older and your timing goes, you lose the ability to pull the trigger, and that’s the key to all of it.
“When you rely on a one-punch knockout that got him out of trouble 40-odd times in a row, and that’s gone, you’re finished. So I think Chisora stops him. Chisora is older and has had harder fights, but I think he has more left in the tank.”
Former world heavyweight champion Wilder will take on Chisora this Saturday at the O2 Arena.
Tyson Fury has revealed the deaths of two of long-time rival Anthony Joshua’s friends in a car crash in December was the catalyst for his return to boxing.
Fury will step back into the ring on 11 April after a 15-month absence to face the Russian-born heavyweight Arslanbek Makhmudov in a bout at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium which will be broadcast live on Netflix.
The two-time world heavyweight champion Fury retired after his second successive loss to Oleksandr Usyk at the end of 2024 and went a calendar year without a fight before announcing his latest comeback on 4 January. The announcement came a week after compatriot Joshua was involved in a car crash in Nigeria which killed his close friends Sina Ghami and Latif “Latz” Ayodele.
Any plans for Fury and Joshua to finally fight in 2026 have since been delayed, but Fury did acknowledge the part played by his old rival in his latest comeback. “Tomorrow might not ever come and I suppose the biggest turning point in this comeback for me was the tragedy that happened with Anthony Joshua,” Fury said at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
“I was on holiday with my family in Thailand for Christmas just to get away from the rain. I was sick of the rain, it was depressing me and then I hear all about the bad news that’s gone on and I thought: ‘You know what, life is very, very short and very precious and very fragile and anything can happen at any given moment.’
“You should never put things off until tomorrow, or next year, or next week because tomorrow is not promised to nobody. The Bible says tomorrow is not a gift, tomorrow ain’t promised, tomorrow is a mystery so we have to live for today.
“Me living for that day, I made my mind up there and then I was going to come back to boxing because it’s something I love, I am passionate about and I have always been in love with. There is no tomorrow so that’s why I am back today.”
Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn has dismissed reports claiming a blockbuster heavyweight clash between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury has already been agreed. He directly contradicted boxing journalist Gareth A Davies, who said the all-British showdown was finalized and headed to Netflix.
Davies told talkSPORT that powerful financial backers had secured the fight behind the scenes. “The Fury-Joshua fight is signed. It’s done in the background. I’ve got that on good authority. It’s with the big money people. It’ll be on Netflix,” he said.
Hearn firmly rejected that claim.
“There is absolutely nothing signed with Anthony Joshua to fight Tyson Fury next. There is nothing agreed,” he stated.
Plans Disrupted by Tragic Accident
Hearn explained that earlier discussions had outlined a clear plan for Joshua before a devastating car accident changed everything.
“There were deep conversations before the accident,” Hearn said. “The plan was for him to fight Jake Paul, then return in February or March in Saudi Arabia, and then face Tyson Fury.”
That plan collapsed after the December 29 crash on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, which claimed the lives of Joshua’s close team members—his personal trainer Kevin Ayodele and recovery therapist Sina Ghami. The incident happened just 10 days after Joshua stopped Jake Paul in six rounds in Miami.
Fresh Talks Only Just Beginning
Hearn emphasized that discussions about the Fury fight only recently resumed.
“We haven’t really talked about that fight since the accident,” he said. “Only in the last few days have we started thinking about revisiting the plan.”
Joshua has now returned to training and is targeting a summer comeback.
Possible Return Opponent for Joshua
Dillian Whyte has emerged as a leading candidate for Joshua’s comeback fight. If Joshua wins convincingly, a long-awaited clash with Fury could still happen later in the year.
Fury Set for April Return
Meanwhile, Tyson Fury will return to the ring on April 11. He faces knockout artist Arslanbek Makhmudov at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on a Netflix card that also features Conor Benn.
Fury had announced his retirement more than a year ago but later reversed his decision, setting the stage for another run in the heavyweight division.
Outlook
Although fans are eager for a Joshua vs Fury showdown, no deal is currently in place. Talks have only just restarted, and both fighters remain focused on their respective comeback paths.
Tyson Fury targets one fight if he can’t land Anthony Joshua or Usyk this year
Tyson Fury is set to make his comeback in seven weeks’ time.
He had made it clear that showdowns with both Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua were at the top of his wish-list, although, should he not be able to secure those fights, Fury has named his next best option.
Fury retired from boxing following consecutive defeats to Usyk during 2024, whilst a clash with Joshua has been touted for almost a decade, but is still yet to take place.
Now, ‘The Gypsy King’ hopes to finally deliver that elusive domestic dust-up and also potentially avenge his Usyk losses in a trilogy affair with Ukraine’s unified heavyweight world champion.
However, with Usyk linked to Deontay Wilder and Agit Kabayel, and details regarding Joshua’s return still unknown, Fury may have to look elsewhere for another opponent.
Speaking to BoxNation, Fury explained that he will not allow himself to look past Arslanbek Makhmudov, but admitted that a clash against the victor of Fabio Wardley and Daniel Dubois’ May meeting could be the bout that comes next.
“Without looking past my man here [Makhmudov], who is as dangerous as both of those guys [Wardley and Dubois], that is one fight that would definitely be interesting to me and we definitely can make it because we are all in the same stable.
“We are all under one banner, so them fights can be made quite easily, I would say.”
Should Fury overcome Makhmudov, a fight against the winner of Wardley-Dubois would provide him with the opportunity to become heavyweight boxing’s fifth three-time champion; joining Muhammad Ali, Lennox Lewis, Vitali Klitschko and Evander Holyfield in that elite club.
Tyson Fury says Anthony Joshua’s fatal Nigeria crash spurred his decision to return
Briton Tyson Fury said Anthony Joshua’s tragic car accident in Nigeria that caused two fatalities was a “turning point” for him in his decision to return to the ring.
Joshua, a former heavyweight champion, sustained minor injuries in the crash in Nigeria in December which killed his strength and conditioning coach Sina Ghami and his trainer Latif “Latz” Ayodele.
The biggest turning point in this comeback for me was the tragedy that happened with Anthony Joshua,”
Fury told reporters on Monday at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, where he will face Arslanbek Makhmudov on April 11 in his return bout.
I hear all that bad news that’s gone on and I thought, you know what, life is very short, very precious and very fragile.
Tomorrow is a mystery, we have to live for today. And me living for that day, I made my mind up there and then that I’m going to come back to boxing – because it’s something that I love, I’m passionate about and that I’ve always been in love with.”
Fury, 37, announced his return from his latest spell of retirement in January. It will be the first fight for the former two-time world heavyweight champion since losing to Oleksandr Usyk in December 2024.
Fury Declares: “Not Every Man Is Built To Be Undefeated Only The Special Ones” – Tyson Fury
To be a fighter, you have to have a little screw loose,” Tyson Fury says calmly in a chaotic room in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he will soon step back into the ring. His entourage are kicking up a racket but Fury is much more reflective. “Who on earth would want to go and fight against a highly trained athlete, time and time again? You have to be a little bit touched to want to do that.”
On Saturday night, Fury faces Francis Ngannou in a bout which could be the sporting definition of absurdity. Fury is the WBC world heavyweight champion and an indisputably great boxer. Ngannou, in contrast, has never boxed professionally even though he was a dangerous force in mixed martial arts as the former UFC heavyweight champion. So much money has been pumped into this dubious venture that Fury and Ngannou could be lauded as supreme businessmen were it not for the deeply troubling nature of boxing’s sudden veneration for Saudi Arabia.
“My oldest brother, John Boy,” Fury continues, “said to me yesterday: ‘You’re more at home in that ring than your front room. Why is that?’”
Fury wears wildly patterned green trousers and a fawn-coloured waistcoat. He is shirtless and he pushes back his green cap as he tries to explain his strange obsession. “I just love everything that comes with this game. From a little boy to being a world champion, it’s always intrigued me. I don’t think there’s anything else where you can get all these emotions in one night. Happiness, sadness, fear, nerves, excitement. Going in there on Saturday night will be, for me, as daunting as going up against Deontay Wilder.”
His epic trilogy with Wilder saw him draw their first fight and win the two other bouts with brutal stoppages. But Fury was knocked down heavily four times across the three fights and, as he says now, “I give every man that gets in that ring 100% respect. But this is my time to shine, my time in the sun, my moment of being heavyweight champion of the world.”
I remind Fury of how, after the third Wilder fight, he leaned over the ropes and wept from the consuming and savage drama of it all. “There are two different types of fighters on this planet,” the 6ft 9in giant says quietly. “One is a man who has a go and he loses, gets chinned again. But there’s a special type that doesn’t know the meaning of losing or saying: ‘That’s enough.’”
Tyson Fury Warns Rival: “There’s a Dangerous Breed of Fighter Who Never Accepts Defeat”
To be a fighter, you have to have a little screw loose,” Tyson Fury says calmly in a chaotic room in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he will soon step back into the ring. His entourage are kicking up a racket but Fury is much more reflective. “Who on earth would want to go and fight against a highly trained athlete, time and time again? You have to be a little bit touched to want to do that.”
On Saturday night, Fury faces Francis Ngannou in a bout which could be the sporting definition of absurdity. Fury is the WBC world heavyweight champion and an indisputably great boxer. Ngannou, in contrast, has never boxed professionally even though he was a dangerous force in mixed martial arts as the former UFC heavyweight champion. So much money has been pumped into this dubious venture that Fury and Ngannou could be lauded as supreme businessmen were it not for the deeply troubling nature of boxing’s sudden veneration for Saudi Arabia.
“My oldest brother, John Boy,” Fury continues, “said to me yesterday: ‘You’re more at home in that ring than your front room. Why is that?’”
Fury wears wildly patterned green trousers and a fawn-coloured waistcoat. He is shirtless and he pushes back his green cap as he tries to explain his strange obsession. “I just love everything that comes with this game. From a little boy to being a world champion, it’s always intrigued me. I don’t think there’s anything else where you can get all these emotions in one night. Happiness, sadness, fear, nerves, excitement. Going in there on Saturday night will be, for me, as daunting as going up against Deontay Wilder.”
His epic trilogy with Wilder saw him draw their first fight and win the two other bouts with brutal stoppages. But Fury was knocked down heavily four times across the three fights and, as he says now, “I give every man that gets in that ring 100% respect. But this is my time to shine, my time in the sun, my moment of being heavyweight champion of the world.”
I remind Fury of how, after the third Wilder fight, he leaned over the ropes and wept from the consuming and savage drama of it all. “There are two different types of fighters on this planet,” the 6ft 9in giant says quietly. “One is a man who has a go and he loses, gets chinned again. But there’s a special type that doesn’t know the meaning of losing or saying: ‘That’s enough.’”
The unbeaten Fury nods intently. “That’s me. It takes a lot of emotion, guts, physicality, spirituality, to keep going even when you’ve been knocked down twice, like I was in round four. Every time he hit me clean I was getting hurt. I looked at my brother and I was like: ‘This is not over. I’m getting him, 100%.’ Then, round 11, bang! Chinned him. Get up from that. That’s my favourite knockout because I knew it was a perfect shot. I ran away and jumped on the ropes, looking at him on the floor.”
The big man is thoughtful when I ask about the times he has been hit so hard that, as against Wilder in 2018, he was actually unconscious before he struck the canvas. Incredibly, Fury still got up before the count reached 10. “Against real punchers like Wilder you don’t feel the power. You wake up on the floor and then, if you’re lucky enough, you open your eyes as [the referee] says: ‘Four, five.
“I remember the referee looked at me like he’s an alien and he said, in an alien voice: ‘Are you OK?’ I was like: “Yeah! C’mon, let’s go!’ But obviously I didn’t know what had hit me. It was a crazy experience, all of it, and if I’m not a blessed man, I don’t know who is. I don’t know anyone who’s been knocked out cold, got up and got stuck right into him.”
Saturday night will be very different. It feels like a charade of a fight as Ngannou is a boxing novice whom Fury should beat with ease. “I hope you’re right,” Fury cackles. “I’m intent on punishing him for a while, enjoying it, putting on a show, then bang! Chinning him. He might be tough as a brick. He’s never been stopped. But he’s never been hit by a proper puncher before. There’s MMA punching and boxing punching. It’s different.”
I’m far more interested in Fury’s next bout, again in Riyadh, when he faces Oleksandr Usyk, the IBF, WBA and WBO champion on 23 December. The winner will become the first undisputed world heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis held all the belts in 1999. “It’s the fight of the century,” Fury says. “So it’s obviously a meaningful fight.”
Usyk is also a masterful boxer. “Is he?” Fury asks me evenly. “Is he any better than the rest of these people? I’m not sure he is. He had a 50-50 fight with Del Boy [Derek Chisora]. Even Daniel Dubois had a lot of success against him. Without being rude to those guys, they’re little more than a heavy bag on legs walking forward. Even AJ [Anthony Joshua who has lost twice to Usyk] had a lot of opportunity and he didn’t do anything. Just walked forward with his hands up around his head, terrified of what’s coming back and didn’t use his advantages. Do you really think, after all these years of knowing me, I’m going to be happy to lose on points against a guy like that? Oh my God. Please.”
This is typical Fury – a showman capable of describing the “daunting” challenge of facing a man who has never boxed before and then trashing an outstanding and brave champion in Usyk. He has already gone into amusing detail about his daily routine at home: “I wake up every morning at 6am, having gone to bed at 9pm. From the moment I wake to the moment I close my eyes, I’m busy. It’s not stuff you think the heavyweight champion of the world will be busy with. But it’s Groundhog Day and keeps me very grounded.”
Fury lists his schedule of tasks – showering, shaving, dressing and feeding the kids, taking them to school, getting down on his hands and knees to collect everything that the dogs have shredded overnight, picking up teddy bears and cushions before going to the tip to dump the rubbish his seven children have collected. “I go to the tip four times a week. It’s like a second home to me. Then I’ve got to feed the dogs, pay the bills, gas, water, electric, council tax. I’m in charge of it all. Then I go to the gym at 4pm every day.”
As a way of cutting down his chores, Fury recently sold more than a hundred properties in the north-west. “Too much headache,” he says, “although the rents are good. Imagine dealing with your own family’s problems. Times that by a hundred. ‘This is broken, that’s not working, this needs fixing.’”
And so Fury will remain locked inside boxing. He suggests that he won’t box anywhere apart from Saudi Arabia as he has signed a rumoured contract for three or four fights worth £200m. Fury insists again that the one that really matters, against Usyk, is a certain victory.
“He won’t be able to move away from me in a 20ft ring. He might run away, but I’ll chase him down. I’ve got fast feet and I will hit him and hit him. I’ll stop him. I guarantee it.”
Fury grins again, looking less like a madman than a world champion who is utterly at home in the circus of boxing.
‘He Ain’t Got What It Takes to Beat Him’: Dmitry Bivol’s Trainer Bluntly Disses Canelo in Crawford Clash
Canelo Alvarez vs. Terence Crawford is just over a week away. Two of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the sport will collide when Alvarez puts his undisputed super-middleweight crown on the line against Crawford at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on September 13.
Crawford will be attempting to do something that only other men have managed to do during Canelo’s 67-fight career by claiming a victory over the Mexican superstar.
One of the fighters that managed to do that was Dmitry Bivol, who claimed a unanimous decision win when defending his WBA light heavyweight title against Alvarez in May 2022.
The man who was in the corner with Bivol that evening was Joel Diaz, while he also was the trainer of Israil Madrimov when he lost his WBA super-welterweight title to Crawford in August 2024.
Having experienced first hand what it is like to train fighters to face both Alvarez and Crawford, Diaz told The Ring that he sees the Mexican icon claiming the win next week.
“Canelo should win. I see him beating Crawford by a convincing decision. There is no way Crawford beats Canelo. Canelo is the king of the sport, and business-wise, he can’t lose. If he loses, boxing loses a lot of prestige.
“But don’t get me wrong, Crawford is one of my favourite fighters and pound-for-pound the best of this era. The fight will be interesting and back and forth for the first four rounds.
“Canelo has been hit by heavy hitters and never even flinched. As soon as Canelo feels that Crawford doesn’t have what it takes to hurt him, he is going to walk him down.”
Diaz then explained what he thinks will be the biggest factor in the bout.
“Crawford will make it a fight and fight back, but he’s a smart fighter and will play it safe once he’s hurt – that’s when Alvarez will take over.
“Crawford is not going to be exchanging punches with Canelo in the middle of the ring. “We’ve seen Crawford get buckled before, and believe me, Canelo hits harder than Yuriorkis Gamboa and Egidijus Kavaliauskas.”
With just days to go until fight night, all will soon be revealed just who comes out on top in the highly-anticipated mega-fight.
Not a ‘sideshow’ opponent: Boxing voice urges Joshua to prove himself against Fury
With his immediate future in the ring still up in the air, former two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has been offered some guidance on his comeback fight
Long-linked with a controversial pairing against the polarizing Jake Paul, former world titleholder Anthony Joshua has missed out on that clash for the time being at least.
And with Paul now set to return to the ring in November to take on current WBA lightweight champion Gervonta Davis in an exhibition clash, Joshua and his team must return to the drawing board.
Ruled out of a slew of potential fights next, a veteran boxing analyst has played matchmaker on Joshua’s return to the ring.
Weighing in on the future of Watford star Joshua, veteran boxing analyst Gareth A. Davies suggested it’s likely now or never for the former to take on fellow former world champion Tyson Fury in the ring.
And urged by Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn to either stick or twist on a retirement U-turn amid links to a summer fight with Joshua, Davies believes the Olympian should skirt a “circus” fight with Paul in favor of an all-British clash with Fury.
“Look, we’re biased,” Davies continued. “Because we’ve seen this generation [of heavyweights] come through, and it [Joshua vs. Fury] bookends the era — to get Joshua and Fury in a ring together. It bookends the era. There’s no question about it.
“It’s a travesty and a tragedy if it does not happen.”
And while Joshua has been linked with many a warm-up fight in his return to the ring following his crushing loss to Daniel Dubois, a “special” event outside of the UK has been mooted.
Carefully plotting their next move with former two-time heavyweight champion Joshua, Matchroom Boxing have stressed their desire to cautiously book the former’s return to the ring.
Namely, talks have been held for Joshua to possibly compete at a blockbuster event in Africa — potentially in Ghana to boot.
““We had meetings with the Accra sports stadium,” Matchroom Boxing CEO Frank Smith told Boxing Social. “The Legacy Rise team; it’s amazing what they’re doing.
“I see a lot of potential there to make something happen,” Smith continued. “…It would be special to do something.
