Tyson Fury puts chances of Anthony Joshua fight at one per cent over Dana White row

Fury blamed Joshua and Eddie Hearn for the doubts over their December fight in Cardiff, and said he had agreed to every term.

By Combat Sports UK Staff · Published Mon 28 Sept, 08:34 UK · AI-assisted reporting

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Tyson Fury has put the chances of his December fight with Anthony Joshua going ahead at one per cent, blaming Joshua and promoter Eddie Hearn's objection to Dana White's involvement. He was speaking to Furocity.

The heavyweights are scheduled to meet at Cardiff's Principality Stadium in December, after Fury beat Mariusz Wach and Joshua beat Kristian Prenga in July. Joshua's contract, signed in April, requires the fight to take place in the UK and excludes White, the UFC chief and Zuffa Boxing promoter, from the promotion.

Fury said the fight was no further forward than it had been eight or nine years ago and claimed Joshua and Hearn had been trying to get out of it since the day they signed. In the same interview he said he would fight David Benavidez if the Joshua fight fell through: Fury says he would fight Benavidez.

Fury insisted he had not refused any term, saying: “There’s nothing that I haven’t agreed to. Nothing. I’ll even tie concrete blocks to me boots to make this fight happen.” Asked whether White was the only obstacle, Fury said the idea was ridiculous: “A spoiled little posh boy chucking his dummies out the pram because Dana White’s involved.” He said that if Hearn wanted to promote the fight on his own terms, at a venue and time of his choosing, he should have put up the money.

The comments came 36 hours after Fury said Joshua and Hearn were trying to pull out of the fight and called them cowards: Fury vs Joshua in doubt. He said Turki Alalshikh was already looking for alternative opponents, adding: “And this is mainly to do with Eddie Hearn’s ego, what a little p****. It’s cost us the biggest fight in boxing history.”

Dana White said at the Zuffa Boxing 11 press conference on Saturday that he did not know whether the fight would happen. Every turn in the row is in our Dana White and Eddie Hearn timeline.