An all‑British heavyweight showdown in the United Kingdom is transferring nearer to actuality, with promoter Eddie Hearn revealing plans are advancing for Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury to lastly meet on dwelling soil.
Hearn stated he’s “hopeful” that Saudi boxing chief Turki Alalshikh will select the UK as the venue for the lengthy‑awaited conflict, which is being focused for November and billed as the most important combat in the nation’s historical past.
While no contract has but been signed, Hearn confirmed that negotiations are in their final stages.
The bout would observe a July comeback combat for Joshua, establishing what Hearn described as “not the fight of the century, the fight of all‑time” for British followers.
Fury and Joshua fuelled anticipation earlier this month once they traded barbs at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, reigniting pleasure for a matchup that has collapsed a number of instances in the previous.
Hearn stated the remaining contractual particulars are near being resolved, after which staging choices will fall to Alalshikh.
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“We will have a contract and we haven’t signed a contract yet, but we are negotiating the final points in an agreement to come back to the ring in July and (then) fight Tyson Fury,” Hearn instructed iFL TV.
“Once we sign up for that agreement, it is over to (Turki) for the staging. We (Matchroom) will be promoting for July. I would think that the November fight or whatever it will be, will be promoted by Sela.
“Myself and AJ, Tyson Fury, we’ll have a contract the place (Alalshikh) is mainly funding the combat. It’s as much as him the place it’s.
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“Now, he also wants to make history. He is not going to put it in some random place. He wants this to deliver for the fans what it is – which is the biggest fight in the history of our country. I am hopeful that the fight takes place in the UK.”
The push for a UK showdown comes after Fury and Joshua traded phrases at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on April 11, reigniting hypothesis round a home conflict that has repeatedly fallen by way of in the previous.
Hearn added that Joshua’s July bout remains to be being finalised, including: “The good news is if we take a (warm-up) fight like this, we have signed to fight Tyson Fury and all you’ve got to do is bite your fingernails in July for 36 minutes or less and you’ve got not the fight of the century, the fight of all-time.”
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Fury had beforehand warned Joshua to not delay with a heat‑up combat – regardless of taking one himself in opposition to Arslanbek Makhmudov – however Hearn stated the choice was influenced by the undisputed champion.
“I am sure they won’t mind me saying it, a lot of this has come from Oleksandr Usyk. He was part of these conversations and the conversations were absolutely he is having a comeback fight,” Hearn stated.
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While we could also be a step nearer to the combat followers have waited greater than a decade for, Hearn’s replace raises an vital query: the place will it take place?
For a combat of this magnitude – with large demand to witness it in particular person and monumental income potential – solely the most important stadiums are practical choices.
Wembley Stadium and Tottenham Hotspur Stadium have confirmed monitor data of internet hosting main boxing occasions, however with a November date earmarked, neither venue has a retractable roof, one thing possible wanted to guard each followers and fighters from the weather.
Spurs, in fact, staged Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr’s rematch in November 2025, when supporters braved temperatures barely in double digits.
The stadium has rapidly turn into one of many world’s premier giant‑scale boxing venues, however the unpredictable and unforgiving British winter makes it wise for promoters to contemplate options.
If Hearn is to get his want of preserving the combat in the UK, Cardiff’s Principality Stadium – full with its totally retractable roof and a historical past of internet hosting Joshua’s world‑title defences in opposition to Carlos Takam and Joseph Parker in 2017 and 2018 – stands out as the plain selection.
Beyond that, choices to maintain the mega‑combat on British soil seem restricted. And except each requirement might be met, there stays an actual chance the bout could head overseas, with Saudi Arabia and the United States each in rivalry.
