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Fury vs Joshua: Tyson Fury claims heavyweight super fight with Anthony Joshua in jeopardy | Boxing News
Tyson Fury has sensationally claimed that his long awaited fight against Anthony Joshua is in serious jeopardy.
On Thursday, confirmation finally arrived that Fury and Joshua’s all-British heavyweight showdown will take place at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on Friday December 11 following months of protracted negotiations to stage the biggest fight in British boxing history.
Saudi boxing powerbroker Turki Alalshikh announced the details had been ironed out for the two foremost heavyweights of their generation to collide but Fury has made the astonishing claim that the fight could be called off.
“Breaking news, Anthony Joshua and Eddie Hearn are trying to pull out the fight,” said Fury.
“They’re saying they’re not going to fight now. It’s mainly to do with Eddie Hearn’s ego. He’s making up a million different things and threatening ‘we’re not gonna fight’,” said Fury.
“Now the Gypsy King is coming back to the United Kingdon to thrash you in front of all my fans in Wales, and now you are making a million excuses.
“Now you’ve got Turki Alalshikh finding alternative, real men who will fight at the drop of a hat. I hope you are happy.”
Sky Sports News have contacted Matchroom Sport for comment.
Joshua and Fury, both former heavyweight world champions, have had a long-running rivalry, punctuated by callouts and trash talk but marred by the difficulty of finalising a deal.
Recent events in the ring had also threatened to derail it. Joshua’s tune-up bout in July almost ended in disaster when little-known Kristian Prenga knocked him down twice in the first round. Joshua rallied to dispatch Prenga in the second round.
Fury’s road to the fight has also been unusual. He announced his retirement after losing a rematch to Oleksandr Usyk and, after a year out of the sport, began training in Thailand. In April he came back at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London when he soundly outpointed Arslanbek Makhmudov.
He decided he wanted his own additional warm-up in July and boxed Mariusz Wach in Thailand in a non-TV bout, eventually stopping the veteran after seven rounds.
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Burns did not make it off the subs’ bench in Lisbon, but hopes to get some minutes in Wales’ second Nations League tie against Denmark in Copenhagen on Sunday, 27 October.
After the injury trauma that cut short his fairytale journey from League One to the Premier League with Ipswich, though, he is just pleased to be back on the international scene at all.
“You just have to remember you’re only one second away from disaster, really,” said Burns.
“That’s how I felt when the injury happened. You feel that could be the end of your career because you never know how bad the injury is initially.
“And when you’ve had surgery, and your knee’s like a balloon, you’re thinking ‘how on earth am I even going to walk again, never mind play’.
“Everything heals in time, though, and it was just about making sure I got the rehab right. The phone calls from Craig, knowing he had a similar injury when he was younger as a player, meant so much to me.”
Burns could have been playing Premier League football again this season, having helped Ipswich bounce straight back to the top flight in the 2025-26 campaign.
But the former Fleetwood winger chose instead to drop two divisions to join Leicester City, who have struggled to adapt to life in League One under former Swansea City boss Russell Martin.
“I could’ve done another year at Ipswich, and I was weighing up whether to finish the story of playing a full season in the Premier League (which injury deprived him of the previous time) – a level I’d worked so hard to get back to,” said Burns.
“But I also had to think about the longevity of my career, and in the end I took the option of a longer contract at Leicester and possibly recreating what I’d already done at Ipswich (back-to-back promotions).”
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