Hearn tells
ESPN venue will be set ‘within next month’Fury had claimed fight ‘nowhere near’ agreed last weekThe prospect of Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury meeting in one of the richest showdowns in
boxing history became more likely when Eddie Hearn confirmed on Monday that both world heavyweight champions have now signed a two-fight contract.
Hearn, who promotes Joshua and is the public voice of the plan to stage a contest which could generate as much as £200m, told ESPN: “I actually feel we’ve done the hard part. Speaking for myself, Anthony and his management team, I know how hard we’ve worked these last couple of months. I just feel that this fight is so big it’s not a difficult sell. We’ve already had approaches from eight or nine sites in the
Middle East, Asia, eastern Europe and America.”