Boxing promoter Kalle Sauerland has claimed that Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury is “done” and will take place in Dublin this autumn.
British heavyweights Joshua and Fury have been linked to one another for years, with a generational showdown lengthy eluding followers.
However, there is currently hope that Joshua vs Fury may finally materialise – even in spite of a automotive accident in December, in which “AJ” was injured while two of his teammates were tragically killed.
Joshua, 36, has returned to the gymnasium since that crash in Nigeria, having recently trained alongside old rival Oleksandr Usyk in the latter’s native Ukraine.
Meanwhile, 37-year-old Fury is due to box Arslanbek Makhmudov on 11 April, because the Briton ends his fifth retirement from boxing.
Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn has hinted at a summer comeback for AJ, which some followers anticipate will be a warm-up struggle for a conflict with Fury. And Wasserman promoter Sauerland has instructed that Joshua vs Fury is nearer than some might imagine.
“AJ-Fury, I’ve heard it’s done for Dublin later this year, so I think that will get announced pretty soon,” he instructed The Stomping Ground on Friday, ahead of the weigh-in for Derek Chisora vs Deontay Wilder.
Separately, Sauerland instructed iFL TV: “Fury-AJ, done for apparently autumn in Dublin, fantastic. That’s what I’ve heard, done for Dublin, I think September or October. I don’t know, have I put my foot in it [by revealing that]? That’s what I’ve heard, word on the street.”
The Independent has approached a consultant of Joshua for remark.
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In his interview with The Stomping Ground, Sauerland went on: “[Chisora vs Wilder] is probably one of three fights that will end this generation [of heavyweights]. AJ-Fury [and] I think Usyk’s last fight, whoever that is.”
Usyk, who has outpointed Joshua and Fury twice every, will fight kickboxing icon Rico Verhoeven on 23 May. In that bout at the pyramids of Giza, the unbeaten Usyk places the unified heavyweight titles on the road.
Fury stays eager on a trilogy bout with the Ukrainian, though public curiosity in that struggle appears to be missing. Either manner, Fury should first overcome Russia’s Makhmudov at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
That London important occasion follows one other in the English capital this Saturday, as Chisora boxes Wilder at the O2 Arena.
Britain’s Chisora, 42, has claimed he will retire after this contest, whereas 40-year-old Wilder’s own boxing future is up in the air.
Like Fury, whom Wilder fought thrice between 2018 and 2021, the American has lengthy been linked to Joshua. Fury stopped Wilder in 2020 and 2021 after the pair controversially drew in their first struggle.
