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British-Nigerian boxer and World Champion, Anthony Joshua has put pen to paper for a two fight deal with fellow British champion, Tyson Fury after months and months of speculation on a unification bout between the two champions.<\/p>\n

The heavyweight unification bout will be between Joshua, who holds the WBA, IBF, WBO, and IBO titles, and Fury, who is WBC and The Ring Champion at a yet to be decided venue and date.<\/p>\n

Almost four years ago after Tyson Fury, also known as the Gypsy King stopped Wladimir Klitschko in 2015, he went into a period of depression and alcoholism, and was stripped of his titles.<\/p>\n

Joshua told him to get fit and called him a fat fuck in a bid to maybe get Fury to go toe to toe with him in the ring. Fury has since made his comeback in spectacular fashion, and is yet to lose a single fight since his return to the big time, even winning the WBC and The Ring titles.<\/p>\n

The Gypsy King has since defeated the Bronze Bomber, America’s Deontay Wilder in their second fight after the first fight was declared a draw by the judges.<\/p>\n

Wilder activated a clause that compelled Fury to fight him a third time, but before their trilogy fight, Wilder picked up an injury and postponed the fight. His team asked to postpone a second time due to the COVID situation. Fury rejected the postponement and stated that he would fight Wilder in December 2020 as earlier planned, and not 2021 as proposed.<\/p>\n

Wilder accused Fury of cheating in their fight and Fury angrily shut down any plans of a trilogy, cancelling the proposed bout with the American, and focusing on Anthony Joshua.<\/p>\n

Joshua, on the other hand, defeated Mexico’s Andy Ruiz in Saudi Arabia to regain his titles after losing to Ruiz in their first fight held at New York City.<\/p>\n

Following his victory over Ruiz, a fight between him and Fury was speculated, but his team was quick to quash any questions of the fight as he had to face the mandatory challengers to his title.<\/p>\n

Joshua then faced Kubrat Pulev who was the mandatory challengers for the WBO title on November 12 at the Wembley Stadium in his home country, stopping him with a 9th round Technical Knockout to retain his WBO title, and in the aftermath of the fight, he was asked if there was to be a fight with Fury.<\/p>\n

He replied that he was willing to fight if Fury was ready, and Fury made a video claiming that he would knock out Joshua in only three rounds.<\/p>\n

To compare both fighters who use the same orthodox style of boxing, Joshua stands at 6 feet, 6 inches while Fury is 6 feet, 9 inches tall. Joshua, 28, has a record of 24 wins and 1 defeat, with 22 of those wins coming via knockout.<\/p>\n

The 33-year old Fury has won 30 times and has lost just once with one draw, and has won 21 of his fights by knockout.<\/p>\n

The two-fight deal was agreed in a way that both men get the exact same share of the money generated by the first fight, while the winner of the second fight goes away with 60% of the money and the loser, 40%.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether Joshua will have a fight before facing Fury, as there is the issue of Oleksandr Usyk, who is the mandatory challenger for the IBF title.<\/p>\n

We are not betting on boxing<\/a> legends to make the correct predictions, but most of them, including Mike Tyson have tipped Fury to get the job done over Joshua, while a number of them have picked Joshua as the favourite for the bout.<\/p>\n

Regardless of predictions, it promises to be one of the biggest heavyweight bouts ever seen in the history of boxing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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