Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua: When are they combating, the place are they’re combating and extra – what we all know to date

Sky Sports activities considers the important thing questions, what we all know to date, and what we do not, now Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua has been set.

Is it on?

It. Is. On. In the end. Anthony Joshua is ready to struggle Tyson Fury. The largest names in British boxing, each heavyweight rivals and former world champions have ceaselessly been linked to a possible struggle, however it’s one which has taken years to materialise.

Now Anthony Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn has declared the AJ-Fury struggle “signed, sealed and delivered”. Fury had revealed he’d signed to struggle Joshua after his personal comeback victory over Arslanbek Makhmudov earlier this month.

When is it on?

We do not truly know but however it ought to happen this yr. Eddie Hearn beforehand advised Sky Sports activities that Joshua was working in the direction of combating Fury in November of this yr, and the Ring journal has additionally introduced that it’s going to happen in “Q4, 2026”.

The place will or not it’s?

Effectively, that is also at the moment unconfirmed. It’s anticipated to happen within the UK. Solely the biggest stadiums are reasonable choices. Wembley Stadium and Tottenham Hotspur Stadium have confirmed monitor data of internet hosting main boxing occasions. Massive fights have beforehand been held on the Tottenham floor in November and in December.

What can go unsuitable?

That is boxing. Something can go unsuitable and ceaselessly does. Joshua has a tune up bout in July, when he fights Kristian Prenga. Till that struggle was introduced, Prenga was nearly unknown. On paper as an opponent he is six foot 5 inches tall, he has a 20-1 (20) document and maybe, theoretically might be a one thing of a menace … however there is a motive he was beforehand unknown. Joshua may be very unlikely to lose to him, and even when he did, the Fury struggle might and absolutely would nonetheless occur.

An harm is extra more likely to derail or no less than postpone the struggle, however after all these can be sustained in coaching in addition to a struggle.

Why has it taken so lengthy?

Fury has been a giant identify heavyweight for years. Joshua has been a celebrity ever since he received Olympic gold at London 2012. It will have been an enormous struggle to make just about from the second Joshua turned skilled. However in boxing such main bouts are normally made when each fighters attain world degree and that takes time and growth.

With Fury stepping away from the game after his victory over Wladimir Klitschko in 2015, when he grew to become a unified world champion, their trajectories didn’t intersect. One after the other Joshua picked up the belts Fury had beforehand held. When Fury returned to boxing he then focused Deontay Wilder and beat the hard-punching American to win the WBC heavyweight title.

Fury and Joshua have been then near assembly in a contest for the undisputed heavyweight championship, however Wilder enforced his proper for the trilogy struggle with Fury. Joshua would lose his belts to Oleksandr Usyk and couldn’t win them again in a rematch.

Fury then fought Usyk for the undisputed crown and in addition misplaced to the sensible Ukrainian. Embittered Fury retired in 2025 and has solely now returned to boxing.

Why is AJ having a tune up bout?

Joshua did struggle in December, when he beat YouTuber turned prizefighter Jake Paul. It took him six rounds, longer than anticipated, to knock out Paul and that was Joshua’s first bout in additional than a yr after struggling a stoppage defeat himself to Daniel Dubois.

After the bout with Paul, Joshua was concerned in a horrible automotive accident, through which two of his shut mates, each additionally members of his crew died. Joshua not solely has been coping with that tragedy, he additionally must shake off the bodily results of the incident that left him injured.

Who will win?

How Joshua performs in that comeback struggle shall be telling. He seemed glorious in his 2023 domination of Otto Wallin. Since then his solely wins have come towards Francis Ngannou, the previous UFC heavyweight champion dabbling in boxing, and Jake Paul, who’s a novice prizefighter and never a correct heavyweight.

Fury’s fights with Usyk could have been defeats for him, however they have been intently contested and top-level bouts. In Arslanbek Makhmudov, Fury’s comeback got here towards a predictable opponent however one who’s heavy-handed and far larger calibre than Prenga.

However then Fury truly struggled with Ngannou, whereas Joshua levelled him.

This struggle is coming at a late stage in each of their careers, after each have had important durations of time away from boxing. All that provides an additional component of unpredictability to the occasion.

Who’ve they been coaching with?

Earlier than his comeback, Fury insisted he was coaching himself and operating his personal camp. Sugarhill Steward, who’s beforehand coached Fury, did are available to affix his crew a few weeks earlier than the Makhmudov struggle.

Joshua has gone into coaching with Oleksandr Usyk and the Ukrainian’s crew. The one-time rivals have now joined forces.

Usyk, the undefeated nonetheless unified and previously undisputed heavyweight world champion has a unique combating fashion to Joshua however has crushed each Joshua and Fury twice. He can provide Joshua an extra impetus for this struggle.

What’s Dua Lipa received to do with it?

Sky Sports activities understands that Saudi financier Turki Alalshikh, who’s backing the occasion, has stipulated that Dua Lipa must carry out on the struggle.

There’s a precedent for one thing like this, Liam Gallagher as an example carried out at Wembley Stadium earlier than Joshua’s struggle with Dubois.

Nevertheless nobody can say they anticipated Dua Lipa to be the one to lastly get Joshua-Fury made.