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Eddie Hearn says Anthony Joshua will fight in May or June and training will begin in January. Until then, the former two-time heavyweight champion (28-4, 25 KOs) will have four months off to recover from his fifth-round knockout loss to IBF champion Daniel Dubois on September 21.
Joshua eyes May/June fight
Hearn says Joshua, 35, will fight twice in 2025, which he hopes will be against Tyson Fury in two bouts. If not him, a rematch with Dubois (22-2, 21 KOs). AJ still wants to avenge his loss, but first on the agenda is Fury if he doesn’t retire.
Understandably, Hearn is trying very hard to rush and host the Joshua vs. Fury fight as both fighters are aging and can no longer be counted on to win the competition. If Hearn had waited, both guys would have continued to take beatings from younger or even older heavyweights.
While both men can still beat many of the top 15 guys, there are more than a handful of heavyweights in the division who would have an excellent chance of beating them.
Hearn says Joshua-Fury and Chris Eubank Jr v Conor Benn are the two biggest fights in British boxing. You could be right. Fans want to see both of these contests, even if the rest of the world doesn’t.
“In May or June.” He is not yet in full training. “He’s probably ready to resume training in January,” Eddie Hearn said iFL TV about when Anthony Joshua will fight next. “At this point, you have Dubois’ fight (against Joseph Parker) on February 22 and you have to see what Fury wants to do.
“We are not in a terrible hurry. AJ will fight twice in 2025. Once in summer and once in winter. If we can’t fight Dubois and if Fury doesn’t want to fight, then you have to make a decision to fight someone, or do you wait for those fights?
“I can’t speak for AJ, who he’s ready to fight, but what I do know is the focus is on Daniel Dubois or Tyson Fury.” Of course, he (Joshua) did it all. If he gets Fury on his resume, he’s boxed just about everyone in his era.
AJ vs Fury 2025
Fury still hasn’t said if he will fight Joshua. He was quite upset following his 12-round unanimous decision loss to unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk in their December 21 rematch in Riyadh. He believed he had won the fight in three rounds and appeared exasperated at the post-fight press conference, lamenting his second loss to Usyk.
As upset as Fury is, the money he can get for fighting Joshua will lure him back into the ring. He won’t sulk for too long when Turki Al-Shiekh is waving $100 million under his beam for an AJ clash.
“It’s (Fury) a tough fight, it’s a 50-50 fight, but run it twice and see where we end up.” Two of the biggest fights in British boxing, Eubank-Benn and Fury-AJ, by a mile. “Nothing is even close,” Hearn said.
