All four major heavyweight boxing titles belong to Tyson Fury (WBC) and Anthony Joshua (IBF, WBA, WBO). Any sensible person wants to see these two British giants face each other, and while boxing can often disappoint by delaying great fights far too long or never making them at all, this time it might be different.
Promoters Bob Arum and Eddie Hearn may be rivals but there is mutual interest in co-promoting and lining up Fury vs. Joshua for this year. Arum told Sky Sports that the hope is to have contracts signed perhaps as early as the end of this month:
“I don’t want to make a deadline, but I just can report that everything so far has been going splendidly, and we hope to have a signed document within the next couple of weeks,” Arum said.