Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury fight update issued | Boxing News

Eddie Hearn says it could be a “beautiful phone call” if Tyson Fury reneges on his retirement and agrees to fight Anthony Joshua. Fury’s subsequent fight after his two factors defeats towards Oleksandr Usyk appeared destined to be a main British heavyweight bout with Joshua – however the Gypsy King surprised the game by saying his retirement.

Boxing followers have been determined to see the duo face off within the ring for the best half of a decade. But until Fury comes out of retirement, the fight won’t ever occur. Hearn, Joshua’s promoter, hopes Fury will get bored in retirement and resolve to box AJ.

“In an ideal world, Tyson Fury gets off the sofa and goes, ‘I’m bored. I wanna roll the dice with AJ’. And that phone call would be the most beautiful phone call I’ve had in my career, and it may come, but if it doesn’t, we’ve gotta find an opponent,” Hearn told The Sun.

“And, he is gotta be 100 per cent bodily proper as a result of that is arguably essentially the most important choice and second of his profession as a result of it is the ultimate ones.”

Joshua has been carrying an undisclosed injury since returning to the gym following his knockout defeat against Daniel Dubois last December. Hearn says it will take six weeks before the 35-year-old can punch properly.

His next fight could be one of his last, so his team are keen to make the correct decision over his next opponent. A rematch against Dubois remains a possibility, but the IBF champion wants a rematch against Usyk. Agit Kabayel and Joseph Parker – who hold the WBC and WBO interim belts respectively – are Joshua’s other options.

“We’re in no tearing rush,” Hearn continued. “The subsequent transfer is so important for the final chapter, as a result of that is what it’s.

“We [have] just gotta get it right and if we can’t get Dubois or if we can’t get Fury then we’ve gotta fight someone else. And that could be Parker. That could be Kabayel, that could be, I don’t know, Wilder, anyone.”

Meanwhile, boxing legend Ricky Hatton has urged Fury to return out of retirement and fight Joshua. He informed Sky Sports: “Tyson’s retired before. It just so happens they were trying to make the Joshua fight. They were trying to make it for 10 years and it looks like they’re still not going to make it now Tyson’s retired.

“But I’d take that retirement with a pinch of salt realizing Tyson. If he will get supplied the proper money, the proper purse for the AJ fight, realizing Tyson as I do, I feel he’d bounce at it.”