‘We have to make this fight happen’ – Hearn sets sights on Joshua-Fury showdown

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Anthony Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn insists he will do everything possible to set up a unification fight this year against Tyson Fury&comma; saying &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;it has become the biggest fight in the history of the sport worldwide&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Fury won the WBC world heavyweight title after stopping Deontay Wilder in Las Vegas to inflict the first defeat of the American’s professional career – 14 months on from their controversial draw in Los Angeles&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The vast majority of observers believed Fury was the rightful winner of that first fight&comma; but he underlined his dominance at the MGM Grand on Saturday night with a resounding display in which he twice knocked Wilder to the canvas before the towel came in during the seventh round&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Fellow Briton Joshua holds the WBA&comma; IBF&comma; WBO and IBO titles after winning his rematch against Andy Ruiz Jr last year and Hearn believes the two camps now have a once in a lifetime chance to make a unification fight happen&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;150106" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-150106" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-150106" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;02&sol;55889B55-BDB9-43B9-9E2E-70685006FBC3&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"432" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-150106" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Joshua reclaimed his belts against Ruiz Jr<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Hearn said on TalkSport&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What a time for British boxing&period; To have one world heavyweight champion would be great but to have two with all the belts&comma; we will never see it again&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I have said and I will make this clear&comma; we have to make this fight happen&period; We will never get the chance for two Brits to fight for an undisputed heavyweight world championship&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I will promise you we will do everything we can to make this fight happen&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads2--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The first thing is that Wilder has the rematch clause&period; I don’t think anyone wants to see a third fight&comma; it was that conclusive&comma; but we will see if he wants to exercise that&period; I probably expect Wilder &lpar;to take the rematch&rpar;&period; I don’t see where else he has to go&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev is also promoted by Bob Arum&comma; Tyson Fury’s promoter&comma; so there is a very easy manoeuvre there if Wilder doesn’t want the rematch to go straight into this undisputed fight in the summer&period; That’s what we have to push for initially&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hearn insists that Joshua is eager to step into the ring with Fury and would not be daunted despite watching his demolition of Wilder&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He added&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our preference is to go straight into it because it would be undisputed&period; We will never get the opportunity in this sport to do it again with two Brits&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I have already spoken to AJ&comma; he wants this fight&period; He has zero fear of fighting Tyson Fury and he wants to be undisputed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Every country in the world will try to get this fight&comma; for me it should happen in the UK&period; First things first&comma; let’s get the fight made&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>I will promise you we will do everything we can to make this fight happen<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We think as Joshua’s team that we win this fight&comma; they believe they win this fight&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I will promise you we will do everything we can to make this fight happen&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It has become not just the biggest fight in British boxing history&comma; it has become the biggest fight in the history of the sport worldwide&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Fury was put in the same breath as the great Muhammad Ali after his stunning display against Wilder&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>British former world cruiserweight champion Glenn McCrory believes Fury is boxing his way towards being considered among the greatest of all time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>McCrory said on TalkSport&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;A while ago I said&comma; and I was laughed at&comma; that in years to come Tyson Fury will be remembered in the same ilk as Muhammad Ali and he is on his way&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads3--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;People said I was stupid&comma; but there is nothing like the Gypsy King&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He does things differently&comma; the same as Muhammad Ali did&comma; he names rounds and says how he will win and he goes out and does it&period; Ali is the greatest of all time but Fury is doing some great things in the heavyweight division&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;150108" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-150108" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-150108" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;02&sol;87F84718-31E7-480D-8A41-409F94B4396F&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"599" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-150108" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Muhammad Ali is considered to be the greatest boxer of all time<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;That was so conclusive&comma; nobody will want to see a third fight and certainly Deontay Wilder does not want a third fight&period; Fury should have won the first fight&comma; should have got it on points&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Now he has gone out there and totally dominated&comma; smashed Deontay Wilder from pillar to post&period; He will want none of that&period; There is one champion in the world&comma; he is number one and his name is Tyson Fury&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Fury’s former trainer Ben Davison took to Twitter to pay tribute to the new champion and labelled it the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;best story in boxing history”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">Congrats to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;Tyson&lowbar;Fury&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&commat;Tyson&lowbar;Fury<&sol;a> on a huge win and bossing his way to the WBC &amp&semi; Ring Heavyweight straps&period; Once again you showed up big&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;BronzeBomber&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&commat;BronzeBomber<&sol;a> keep your head up and learn from this&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;hashtag&sol;WilderFury2&quest;src&equals;hash&amp&semi;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&num;WilderFury2<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Lennox Lewis &lpar;&commat;LennoxLewis&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;LennoxLewis&sol;status&sol;1231468465912893444&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">February 23&comma; 2020<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He wrote&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Credit goes to the fighter I always say that but fantastic job sugar hill and &commat;AndyLeeBoxing too&period; Also Tyson family&comma; brothers&comma; father&comma; wife and kids&period; THE BEST STORY IN BOXING HISTORY&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Nobody ever tell me Tyson isn’t in the all time heavyweight great list now&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If Tyson doesn’t get a return parade this country needs to seriously take a long look at itself&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ad-container"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Lennox Lewis produced what is considered to be among the finest fights by a British boxer when he beat Mike Tyson in Memphis in 2002&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Lewis tweeted&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Congrats to Tyson Fury on a huge win and bossing his way to the WBC &amp&semi; Ring Heavyweight straps&period; Once again you showed up big&period; &commat;BronzeBomber &lpar;Deontay Wilder&rpar; keep your head up and learn from this&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2d04441c8">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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