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Eddie Hearn says Anthony Joshua will fight in May or June and start training in January. Until then, the former two-time heavyweight champion (28-4, 25 KOs) will have four months off to recover from his fifth-round knockout loss to IBF champion Daniel Dubois on September 21.
Joshua Eyes May/June Duel
Hearn says Joshua, 35, will fight twice in 2025, which he hopes will be against Tyson Fury in two fights. If not him, a rematch with Dubois (22-2, 21 KOs). AJ still wants revenge for the loss, but first on the agenda is Fury if he doesn’t retire.
Understandably, Hearn is trying hard to rush and make a Joshua vs. Fury fight because both fighters are aging and can no longer be counted on to defeat competition at their level. If Hearn had waited, both men would still have been getting wins by younger or even older heavyweights.
While both men can still defeat many of the top 15 guys, there are more than a few heavyweights in the division who would have an excellent chance of defeating them.
Hearn says Joshua-Fury and Chris Eubank Jr. against Conor Benn two of the biggest fights in British boxing. You could be right. Fans want to see both of those contests, even if the rest of the world doesn’t.
“In May or June. He is not in full training yet. He’s probably ready to resume training in January,” Eddie Hearn told iFL TV about when Anthony Joshua will fight next. “At the moment you have the Dubois fight (against Joseph Parker) on February 22 and you have to see what Fury wants to do.
“We are not in a terrible hurry. AJ will fight twice in 2025. Once in the summer and once in the winter. If we can’t get Dubois to fight and if Fury doesn’t want to fight, then you have to make a decision to fight someone or wait for those fights?
“I can’t speak for AJ, who he’s willing to fight, but what I do know is that the focus is on Daniel Dubois or Tyson Fury. Of course, he (Joshua) did everything. If he gets Fury on his resume, he’s boxed in almost all his eras.
AJ vs. Fury in 2025?
Fury still hasn’t said if he will fight Joshua. He was quite upset after losing a 12-round unanimous decision to unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk in their December 21 rematch in Riyadh. He believed he had won the fight in three rounds and appeared bitter at the post-fight press conference, bemoaning his second loss against Usyk.
As upset as Fury is, the money he can get for fighting Joshua will lure him back into the ring. He won’t sulk for too long when Turki Al-Shiekh waves $100 million under his nose for a fight with AJ.
“It’s (Fury) a tough fight, it’s a 50-50 fight, but do it twice and see where we end up. Two of the biggest fights in British boxing, Eubank-Benn and Fury-AJ, miles. Nothing even close,” Hearn said.
