Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury have signed a deal of two all-British world heavyweight title unification fights, this was disclosed by Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn on Monday.
Speaking with ESPN about the agreement of a much-anticipated match, Hearn said; “The hard part is always getting everybody to put pen to paper.
He also added that “this was a major effort from all parties to get this over the line. You had rival promoters, rival networks and rival fighters.”
According to Hearn, the venue for the fight is yet to be confirmed and if both parties did not agree on the venue as soon as possible, the deal may be cut off.
Anthony Joshua holds the WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight titles and Fury’s WBC heavyweight belt.
According to reports, Saudi Arabia, where Joshua won a rematch against Andy Ruiz Jr in December 2019, is the frontrunner to host both fights.
But Hearn told ESPN he “already had approaches from eight or nine sites” across the Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe and America.
“We’d like to get a site deal confirmed in the next month,” he said.
Both Joshua, 31, and Fury, 32, are expected to earn £100 million ($139 million) each, with the purse split 50-50 for the first fight and 60-40 for the rematch in favour of the defending champion.
Recall Joshua was once defeated by Andy Ruiz but recovered his WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight titles back in a shock defeat to Ruiz and went to defend the titles against Kubrat Pulev in London in December.
Fury on the other hand has not fought for more than a year since defeating Deontay Wilder in February 2020 to claim the WBC title.
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