Anthony Joshua hasn’t given up on his desire to fight giant Tyson Fury and is targeting him in 2025. The two former heavyweight champions are in a now-or-never situation as they’re on a losing streak, and both look 100% washed out clinically.
1% against the fans
Fans were put off by the idea of uber-rich Joshua and Fury are now fighting. They see it as pure greed because there is no point in a head-to-head match except for the $100 million they are expected to win.
It doesn’t matter who wins between them now. This is a celebrity match and has nothing to do with sporting significance. Joshua and Fury make a lot of money and then they do it again later in the year at Wembley in London. The winner will not turn around and win the world title. If they fight Aleksandar Usyk again, they will lose like before.
Hopefully neither of them get another shot at the title because they don’t deserve it. Other heavyweights should get a chance, not these two spoiled brats.
Fury (34-2-1, 24 KOs) has not said if he will fight AJ next, but given his love of money, it is expected that he will. The 36-year-old Fury looked hellish, losing to WBA, WBC and WBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk in their December 21 rematch in Riyadh.
Fury looked like the definition of a textbook gunfighter, unable to pull the trigger, slow, fat and nowhere near the guy he was years ago.
That’s not to say he was elite in his prime because he was always a touted fighter. He was living off the glory of his 2015 win over 39-year-old over-the-hill Wladimir Klitschko. Nine years ago, Fury’s fans made a big production of that win, believing the win meant something.
“I really really really hope it’s 2025. It’s a fight that completes the era in a lot of ways. We lost the Joshua-Wilder fights. We lost the Usyk-Wilder fights because they didn’t match up,” said Gareth A. Davies for Stomping Grounds channeltalking about his hopes of seeing a Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua ‘Battle of Britain’ clash in 2025.
“I think if we lose Joshua-Fury from the landscape in 2025 and it doesn’t happen, it would be a bit of a travesty for British boxing fans and the heavyweight era. These guys (Fury and Joshua) have been on a collision course for almost 10 years or maybe more than 10 years.
“I hope it will happen.” Of course he has, but after a few months, he’ll love to come back again,” Garrett said of the possibility of Fury retiring. “I think it will happen.” I’ll go 9 out of 10 that it will happen in 2025. Wembley please, in the summer, 90,000,” Garrett said of the British Joshua-Fury match.