“He can decide he wants to take another fight,” Warren told Sky Sports. “It wouldn’t surprise me. Tyson wants to stay busy. Tyson needs to have focus in his life as far as boxing is concerned. It’s to have a date.”
No firm date has been agreed for Fury vs Joshua. Warren pointed to the July 25 fight as the immediate roadblock and said the situation cannot move forward until Joshua is through that mandate.
“We’ll have to talk about that afterwards. Let’s hope he doesn’t lose,” Warren said of Joshua’s fight with Prenga. “If he’s not going to beat this guy, he’s not going to beat Tyson, that’s for sure. He’s got to go out and do a job.”
Warren said that Joshua’s comeback is also about shaking off inactivity and dealing with the aftermath of the car accident that claimed two of his friends. He described the July fight as a necessary step before any major event.
If both fighters make it through their interim fights, the current expectation is a fight later in the year, likely in October or November. Fury would rather prefer it, with Warren citing August or September as her ideal window.
Place reservations remain open. Wembley Stadium has been mentioned, although Saudi Arabia is still involved in financing the event, which is still shaping planning.
Warren said there were no concerns about negotiations such as billing or ringwalk ordering, instead pointing to the size of the purses and commercial demand.
“The money they get paid, they can jump in, do cartwheels in the ring,” he said. “It’s big money,” says Warren about Fury and Joshua.
Additional elements, including entertainment requests tied to the event, have been discussed but are not expected to affect whether the fight takes place.
Joshua fights in July, and Fury could do the same. The main event still has no date, and everything depends on both men getting through the next step.
