Anthony Joshua has not given up on his desire to fight fading giant Tyson Fury and is targeting him in 2025. The two former heavyweight champions are in a 'now or never' situation as they are coming off losses, and both look 100%. Washed in the clinical sense.
The 1% versus the fans
Fans are put off by the idea Super rich Joshua and Fury are fighting now. They view it as pure greed because there is no benefit to their match other than the $100 million they are expected to receive.
Who wins now among them does not matter. This is a celebrity match and has nothing to do with sporting importance. Joshua and Fury make a lot of money and then do it again later in the year at Wembley in London. The winner won't turn around and win a world title. If they fight Oleksandr Usyk again, they will lose like before.
Hopefully neither of them gets another title shot because they don't deserve it. Other heavyweights should get a chance instead of these two spoiled guys.
Fury (34-2-1, 24 KOs) hasn't opened up to say whether he'll take the fight with AJ next, but given his love of money, it's expected he will. The 36-year-old Fury looked hellish, losing to WBA, WBC and WBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk in a rematch on December 21 in Riyadh.
Fury looked like the textbook definition of a gunfighter, unable to pull the trigger, slow, fat, and nowhere near the man he had been so many years ago.
That's not to say he was elite in his prime because he was always an enthusiastic fighter. He lived off the fame of his 2015 win over 39-year-old Wladimir Klitschko over the hill. Nine years ago, Fury fans put on a big production for this victory, believing the win meant something.
“I really sincerely hope so in 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 get along,” Gareth A. Davies told Stomping Grounds channelHe talks about his hopes of seeing Tyson Fury take on Anthony Joshua in the 'Battle of Britain' in 2025.
“I think if we lose Joshua Fury from the scene in 2025, and we don't, it will be a bit of a travesty for British boxing fans and the era of heavyweights. These guys (Fury and Joshua) have been on a collision course for about 10 years or maybe More than 10 years.
“I hope that happens. Of course there is, but after a few months, he will want to come back again,” Gareth said of the possibility of Fury retiring. “I think it will happen. “I'd go 9 out of 10 it will happen in 2025. Wembley, please, in the summer, 90,000,” Gareth said of Joshua-Fury's British gig.
