Hearn: Joshua fights once in 2025, awaiting Fury decision

Promoter Eddie Hearn says Anthony Joshua will only fight “once” in 2025, probably by September. “Hearn mentions that they are waiting to see if Tyson Fury will end his retirement to come back for a battle AJ.

Joshua’s Single 2025 -Fighth Plan

As ‘The Gypsy King’ Fury retired, Hearn says they are interested in Joshua fighting against Daniel Dubois when he comes through his undisputed championship match against Oleksandr Ulsyk on July 19.

Dubois humiliated AJ last September and destroyed him in five rounds at Wembley Stadium. However, Hearn mentions that Fury remains the top priority. When he comes out of pension, they will take one.

Hearn awaits Fury decision

“He will only fight once this year. He would be good to go in mid -September. And then we’ll know for sure whether Fury is going to return or not, ‘the promoter Eddie Hearn said ESPN About Anthony Joshua.

AJ is busy with elbow operations, so he won’t be able to cause two fights this year. Maybe that’s a good thing for him, because the fans would expect him to fight quality opposition. He is unable to hit murderers such as Agit Kabayel, Filip Hrgovic or even inexperienced beginner Moses Itauma.

Fans consider Joshua (28-4, 25 COs) as over, and many of them lost interest in seeing him fight against someone. The sentimental box fans who remember Joshua of what he did earlier in his career more than a decade ago might still be interested in watching him. The rest of the fans consider him an over-the-hill fighter.

“I just don’t think he won’t be able to leave it alone. Do you know why? Because he does not decline. He is still at the peak of his powers, “Hearn says of Fury.” It is very difficult to run away from a fight like Anthony Joshua if you still manage. ‘

Fury: a shadow of his former self

I can’t believe for a moment that Hearn is serious about anger that does not show signs of decline. He looks 100% faded, a wasted shell of what he was ten years ago when he pulled off an upset 39-year-old Wladimir Klitschko in 2015. Anyone can see that Tyson has nothing left in his game. Blame it on genetics or a sitting lifestyle. I see it as a combination of both because he is dirty rich in a net worth approaching $ 200 millionAnd he eats well between fights.

Fury’s controversial victory over former UFC fighter Francis Ngannou showed he was shot. He had to be able to destroy the fighter if he still had something left, but instead he lost and got a controversial ten-round split decision in 2023.

Hearn has done a good job over the past four years to keep Anthony’s career running by putting him in a four-game re-rebuild against lower-level opposition after his back-to-back defeats against Oleksandr Ulsyk. However, after Joshua was again sitting against his first lively opponent, Daniel Dubois, he was wiped out. DDD went through him as if we were a speed hump in the road. The battle was not even very close to being competitive.

There is a lot more money for Joshua to fight Fury than Dubois. This is a more winable one for him. Tyson looks thoroughly washed in his last two battles.

If not for the referee who saves anger with a bizarre standing eight score in the ninth round, he would surely have been done. In the USYK-Fury Rematch in December last year, Tyson looked drowsy, out of shape and physically unable to do anything.