Frank Warren says Tyson Fury’s paperwork does not say what Anthony Joshua’s does, and that the fight dies if Joshua’s side will not move.
Eddie Hearn has spent weeks insisting Joshua’s contract requires the fight to happen in the UK, while Turki Alalshikh and Sela’s Dr Rakan AlHarthy push for Madison Square Garden on behalf of Netflix. Warren, who promotes Fury through Queensberry, told BoxNation the two agreements are not the same document.
They’ve got their contract and Tyson’s got his agreement, which states something different.
The fight will happen. I’ve heard what Eddie’s said, and they’re either going to agree to it being in America or not. If they don’t agree to it, the fight won’t happen.
That is a promoter telling the other side to accept the venue, and it is the first public suggestion that Fury’s contract does not carry the same UK clause Hearn has been leaning on.
Hearn has said he is open to discussing the United States but has been consistent that it is not what he or Joshua want, and has warned that announcing New York without their agreement puts the whole thing at risk.
Both men have their warm-ups behind them. Fury stopped Mariusz Wach in seven in Thailand. Joshua was dropped twice in the first round by Kristian Prenga in Jeddah before stopping him in the second.
If it does land at Madison Square Garden, it will be Joshua’s first fight there since Andy Ruiz Jr. stopped him in the seventh in 2019.
