Anthony Joshua‘s promoter Eddie Hearn has declared his fighter has accepted a proposed bout with Tyson Fury.
The Gypsy King went public with his offer to Joshua as he pushes to set up a battle of Britain clash with his WBC heavyweight title on the line before the end of the year.
Fury and Joshua had an agreement to fight in Saudi Arabia in August 2021 but those plans came crashing down after a judge ordered Deontay Wilder to be granted his rematch with Fury.
But now the fight looks likely to go ahead in the UK after Hearn confirmed an offer has been accepted.
The Matchroom supremo told iFL TV “We offered Tyson Fury the fight when he wasn’t champion, at 60-40, and he turned it down. He asked for 50-50.
“I spoke to AJ and he said, ‘Look, I don’t believe he’s for real, but yeah, I’ll take the fight. See what the offer is’.
“They came back yesterday and me and George [Warren] kind of had an agreement that we weren’t gonna talk about it, but obviously Fury came out and basically let the world know the offer.
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“Sixty-forty was the offer, as Tyson said. They want a rematch clause and they asked for a date at the beginning of November [for the initial fight].
“I don’t know whether that was a wind-up or whatever, but we just went back this morning and said, ‘We think, I think particularly, he deserves more than 40 per cent, but he’s happy. And I don’t make the decisions, he does’.
“So I went back this morning and said, ‘We accept 60-40, we want that reversed in a rematch, rightfully so. [Fury is] the champion here, you want the biggest split, which I think is fair — and we want to do the fight in December’.”
Fury said on Wednesday that his team had secured provisional dates for Wembley and Cardiff, with Hearn suggesting December 17 as a good option for the bout.
He added: “Interestingly, they have [a date booked for]Â December 17 held at [what was formerly] Millennium Stadium, so that’s perfect. That’s perfect for us.”
Source: Livescore