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Fury, Joshua verbally agree May, June 2021 for unification fight

Arguably the biggest fight to make in all of boxing is between heavyweight champions Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua. It would appear that we could be close to seeing this happen, with it even having the possibility of going down in the first half of 2021, reports middleeasy.com.

Arguably the biggest fight to make in all of boxing is between heavyweight champions Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua. It would appear that we could be close to seeing this happen, with it even having the possibility of going down in the first half of 2021, reports middleeasy.com.

After having one of the most inspirational comeback stories of all time, Fury was able to capture the WBC heavyweight title from Deontay Wilder. This bout was a rematch of their previous draw, with Fury completely dominating the action before a seventh round TKO. In the immediate aftermath of the fight, fans were demanding to see a title unification bout with IBF, WBO, and IBO heavyweight champ and WBA super heavyweight champ Anthony Joshua.

Initially it seemed that there would be too many hurdles in the way of booking Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua, with mandatory challengers for their respective titles. However, after Joshua took on his mandatory challenge, handling Kubrat Pulev with relative ease, it seems that this heavyweight title clash is next on the docket. According to reports, both Tyson and Anthony have verbally agreed to fight in either May or June of 2021.

There seems to be a lot of confidence on the idea that Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury will be fighting next, but as they say the devil is in the details. Hearn seems to think that the few remaining roadblocks to making this official are not going to be difficult to overcome, but sometimes negotiations fall apart in these final sessions of hammering things out. That being said, one can only hope that the fan desire to see this bout is enough to negate any sort of struggles in booking the fight, and that we will see these two sharing a ring by next spring.

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