Anthony Joshua hasn’t given up on wanting to fight the fading giant Tyson Fury and is targeting him in 2025. The two former heavyweight champions are in a now-or-never situation because they’re coming off losses, and both look 100% washed up in the clinical sense.
The 1% vs. The Fans
Fans are put off by the idea of the uber-rich Joshua and Fury fighting now. They view it as pure greed because there’s no point in a match between them other than for the $100 million they’re expected to get.
Whoever wins now between them doesn’t matter. This is a celebrity match and has nothing to do with sporting relevance. Joshua & Fury make oodles of money and then do it again later in the year at Wembley in London. The winner isn’t going to turn around and win a world title. If they fight Oleksandr Usyk again, they’ll lose like before.
Hopefully, neither of them is given another title shot because they don’t deserve it. Other heavyweights should get a chance rather than these two pampered guys.
Fury (34-2-1, 24 KOs) hasn’t opened his yap to say whether he’ll take the fight with AJ next, but given his love of money, he’s expected to. The 36-year-old Fury looked hellish, losing to WBA, WBC, and WBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk in their rematch on December 21st in Riyadh.
Fury looked like a textbook definition of a shot fighter, unable to pull the trigger, slow, fat, and nowhere near the guy he’d been many years ago.
That’s not to say he was elite in his prime because he’s always been a hyped-up fighter. He lived off the fame of his 2015 victory over 39-year-old over-the-hill Wladimir Klitschko. Nine years ago, Fury’s fans made a big production of that victory, believing that the win meant something.
“I really sincerely hope so in 2025. It’s a fight that completes the era in many ways. We’ve lost the Joshua-Wilder fights. We’ve lost the Usyk-Wilder fights because they didn’t align,” said Gareth A. Davies to the Stomping Grounds channel, talking about his hopes of seeing the 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 era of heavyweights. These guys [Fury & Joshua] have been on a collision course for almost 10 years or maybe over 10 years.
“I hope it happens. Of course, there is, but after a couple of months, he’ll fancy coming back again,” said Gareth about the possibility of Fury retiring. “I do think it’ll happen. I’m going to go 9 out of 10 that it’ll happen in 2025. Wembley, please, in the summer, 90,000,” said Gareth about the Joshua-Fury British bash.
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