Eddie Hearn doesn’t believe an offer from Tyson Fury to face Anthony Joshua carries much sincerity but has admitted that AJ wants to fight.
The head of boxing was in Jeddah to watch Joshua lose to Oleksandr Usyk last month.
Joshua has lost a Unexplainable split decision against the Ukrainians at the Jeddah Superdome in Saudi Arabia and after a strange match post-warsaid he wanted to get Back to the winning ways sooner rather than later.
Tyson Fury, current WBC champion and fellow Brit of ‘AJ’, named the 32-year-old to a potential showdown in December, with Joshua responded to the ‘offer’ by asking him to contact his management team 258.
But Hearn, who has promoted Joshua since his return in October 2013 after winning Olympic gold in London a year earlier, is in doubt about being called out, even though he says Joshua will join the competition. join the war.
Listen, when talk to talkSPORT on Tuesday, said:
“I had a conversation last night with George Warren. I want to get really excited about this. Don’t forget that we signed for this fight last year. It’s an interesting one, but the message is pretty clear from AJ – he wants to fight.”
“If that fight is there and they’re serious, get the details and offer to us and I’ll take it to AJ. We did not expect this opportunity and we will definitely consider it. Let’s remove the skepticism and see what we get from Camp Fury. “
Fury (32-0-1, 23 KOs) was cheered by Queensberry’s Frank Warren in the UK and previously agreed to fight Joshua last year.
It is thought ‘The Gypsy King’, who last acted in April when he stopped mandatory challenger Dillian Whyte for six rounds at Wembley Stadium in London, would be waiting for a showdown against all marbles against the aforementioned Usyk, holder of the WBA Super, IBF, IBO, WBO and Ring Magazine titles.
But after Usyk decided he wanted to wait until after Christmas to do that duel still recovering from his back-to-back win over Joshua last month, Fury called on the twice-global former home to fill in. a position in December.
Hearn added:
“Fury excels at getting the public to believe things that make no sense. For the past two or three weeks, it’s been unbelievably weird.
“The big problem for Fury is the fight with Usyk. Personally, I don’t think he’s serious about it but like I said, ‘AJ’ will have no problem going into the fight this December. “
