Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua have circled each other by a lot of their skilled careers.
They’ve every gained a number of world championships, belts which each of them have now misplaced and can battle to reclaim.
Joshua bins Britain’s Daniel Dubois for the IBF heavyweight title at Wembley Stadium on September 21, dwell on Sky Sports activities Field Workplace, whereas Tyson Fury will attempt to win again the WBO, WBA and WBC belts in his December rematch with Oleksandr Usyk.
However finally the paths of Fury and Joshua, two nice heavyweight rivals, might nonetheless intersect, even when they do not essentially win their subsequent fights.
“I always felt that AJ and Tyson would fight at some point. At some point. Win, lose or whatever,” Todd DuBoef, president of Fury’s US promoters Prime Rank, advised Sky Sports activities.
“It is like Batman and Robin. They go collectively. I simply really feel like sooner or later they will battle no matter what their physique of labor is, no matter how they arrive out of fights.
“I believe they each have nice fanbases, they each come from an exquisite nation with historical past.
“We’ve had this wonderful heavyweight renaissance, the UK being the epicentre of it, so I’ve always felt like they’ll fight at some point.”
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That’s simply his intuition. Fury and Joshua themselves are targeted on their fast challenges in opposition to Usyk and Dubois respectively.
Nevertheless it additionally comes from his studying of boxing historical past. Fights between fierce rivals, who’ve comparable statures within the sport, might be a very long time within the making. However they have a tendency to get made ultimately.
“I think there’s a lot of bragging rights and they’ve had a rivalry for 15 years or whatever it is and I don’t think it ever goes away,” DuBoef mentioned of Fury and Joshua.
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“Mayweather-Pacquiao eventually happened. There were rivalries for 10 years and eventually they happened. I just think it makes sense at one point.
“You see historical past, you see how issues occur,” he continued. “I believe timing is all the pieces.
“At some point I think they lock it up and they get in the ring together. It makes all the sense in the world.
“I can see it taking place it doesn’t matter what.”
Anthony Joshua’s heavyweight showdown with Daniel Dubois takes place on Saturday September 21 dwell on Sky Sports activities Field Workplace. E book Joshua v Dubois now!
