Long-awaited Fury-Joshua bout a step closer

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The all-British heavyweight combat betwixt Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua could yet beryllium on.

Joshua’s absorption squad said successful a station connected Twitter connected Tuesday that its combatant has accepted the presumption presented by Fury for a bout connected December 3.

That was made known to Fury’s squad connected Friday, the 258MGT radical said, earlier some parties agreed to halt connection pursuing the decease of Queen Elizabeth II.

“We are awaiting a response,” posted the absorption team, which said it was speaking connected behalf of Joshua on with the fighter’s promoter, Matchroom.

In a video connected societal media past week, Fury — the WBC champion — said helium was consenting to connection Joshua 40 per cent of the purse for a rubric combat earlier the extremity of the year.

“He doesn’t person immoderate excuses present not to instrumentality it,” Fury said. “He can’t accidental I’ve low-balled him and offered him 20 oregon 30 per cent. I’ve offered (his) radical 40 per cent — instrumentality it oregon permission it.”

Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, said helium would beryllium funny successful making the combat if Fury’s connection was serious.

The unbeaten Fury appears to person gone backmost on his determination to discontinue successful the aftermath of beating different British fighter, Dillian Whyte, successful beforehand of astir 90,000 spectators astatine Wembley Stadium successful April.

Fury’s hopes of landing a combat with Oleksandr Usyk, who retained the WBA, WBO and IBF belts by beating Joshua successful Saudi Arabia past month, were dashed erstwhile the Ukrainian said helium did not mean to combat again this year.

Fury turned his sights connected Joshua, who said aft the Usyk combat that helium intended to enactment his mode backmost up to being a three-time champion — perchance facing opponents successful the 2nd tier of the heavyweight part — aft losing 3 of his past 5 bouts.

What would person been a combat to beryllium undisputed champion betwixt Joshua and Fury was adjacent to being arranged past year, lone for an arbitrator successful the United States to regularisation that Fury was contractually bound to fulfil a 3rd combat with Deontay Wilder.

Joshua, who was heavyweight champion astatine the time, past decided to combat Usyk and mislaid to the Ukrainian successful London.

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