Fury vs Joshua will be for the WBA 'super' heavyweight title, Frank Warren confirms

Both former world champions will fight to win back a heavyweight belt in Cardiff on 11 December. Oleksandr Usyk remains The Ring champion.

Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua will fight for the WBA 'super' heavyweight title in Cardiff on 11 December, The Ring's Mike Coppinger reported on 24 September.

"Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua will fight for the WBA 'super' heavyweight title, @ringmagazine has learned," Coppinger wrote. "Fury and AJ will both be looking to regain a heavyweight title."

Both men have held the belt before, and both won it by beating Wladimir Klitschko: Fury in Dusseldorf in November 2015, Joshua at Wembley in April 2017.

Oleksandr Usyk, who has beaten both of them, remains The Ring heavyweight champion, Coppinger added, while Murat Gassiev holds the WBA's 'regular' heavyweight title.

On 12 October, Frank Warren confirmed it to Sky Sports News. "That is the case at the moment. That's going to be on the line," he said. "Whoever wins that, they've got a version of the belt and the objective is to find out who's the best, who's going to hold all the belts."

Warren wants the winner to face the winner of Daniel Dubois v Fabio Wardley in 2027: "We've got three of the four heavyweight champions on our roster and we're going to make unification fights next year." Dubois told Sky: "If they feed me one of them, I'll fight them. Nice appetiser."

The fight at the Principality Stadium was confirmed on 24 September and streams live on Netflix at no extra cost to members.

The announcement: Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua confirmed for 11 December in Cardiff.

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