Tyson Fury, the WBC heavyweight champion, and Anthony Joshua are back in talks about their all-British heavyweight matchup.
Fury, however, gave his opponent a new deadline by which to agree to their today’s fight.
“My promoter Frank Warren convinced me to let Queensberry carry on negotiating with your team this week, despite me knowing that you were never going to do this fight,” Fury said
Joshua and Fury support various broadcasters in their respective alliances. One of the major sticking points in the negotiations for this fight was thought to be getting those networks to agree on a TV deal. But Fury has claimed that the rival broadcasters are “all happy with the terms”.
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“So the deadline was Monday,” Fury said. “I allowed Frank to continue doing meetings with your team and your broadcasters and all that. Now we have BT, DAZN and ESPN all on the same page. They are happy with everything, they are all ready to rock and roll.
“You guys ask for a lot of stuff, you want to be co-promoters when you’re a voluntary challenger. Guess what, I said give it them, let them be co-promoters.
“You wanted full transparency, even though you’re not an equal shareholder in this party. You know what I said? Give them full transparency, I’ve got nothing to hide, I’m not trying to rob anybody, I’ve not robbed anybody of a penny in my life.
Despite Joshua’s prior insistence that he would sign the contract, it had to go through his attorneys and management staff.
“So now you’ve got full transparency, everything is clean and fair. Now, Joshua, the ball is really in your court son.”
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