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Eddie Hearn says Anthony Joshua will fight in May or June and start training camp in January. By then, the former heavyweight champion (28-4, 25 KOs) will have had four months off to recover from his fifth-round knockout loss to IBF champion Daniel Dubois on September 21.
Joshua Eyes Combat May/June
Hearn claims Joshua, 35, will fight twice in 2025, which he hopes will be against Tyson Fury over 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.
Hearn is understandably scrambling to rush and make the Joshua vs. Fury because both fighters have aged and can no longer be counted on to defeat level competition. If Hearn were to wait, both guys would continue to be beaten by younger heavyweights or even older ones.
While both can still take down many of the top 15, there are more than a handful of heavyweights in the division who would have an excellent chance to take them down.
Hearn says Joshua-Fury and Chris Eubank Jr. vs. Conor Benn are the two biggest fights in British boxing. I could be right. Fans want to watch these two contests, even if the rest of the world doesn’t.
“In May or June. It is not yet in full formation. He’ll probably be ready to resume training in January,” said Eddie Hearn iFL TV on when Anthony Joshua will fight next. “At the moment, you have the Dubois fight (against Joseph Parker) on February 22 and you have to see what Fury wants to do.
“We’re in no rush. AJ will fight twice in 2025. One in the summer and one in the winter. If we can’t get the Dubois fight and if Fury doesn’t want to fight, you have to make the decision to fight against someone, or do you wait for these fights?
“I can’t speak for AJ, who he’s ready to fight for, but what I do know is that the focus is on Daniel Dubois or Tyson Fury. Of course, he (Josué) has done it all. If he has Fury on his resume , has fit practically all of his time.
AJ vs Fury in 2025?
Fury has yet to say whether he will fight Joshua. He was pretty upset after 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 by three rounds and appeared bitter in the post-fight press conference, complaining about his second loss against Usyk.
As upset as Fury is, the money he can get from fighting Joshua will get him back in the ring. He won’t be mad for long when Turki Al-Shiekh waves $100 million under his snot for the AJ showdown.
“It (Fury) is a tough fight, it’s a 50-50 fight, but do it twice and see where we are at the end. The two biggest fights in British boxing, Eubank-Benn and Fury-AJ, by a mile . Nothing even comes close,” Hearn said.
