Joshua vs Fury off
LONDON - Tyson Fury’s chief negotiator for the proposed Battle of Britain bout with Anthony Joshua has said he ‘can’t see a way the fight will take place on December 3’.
George Warren’s comments come shortly after AJ’s promoter Eddie Hearn stated on Monday afternoon that the highly-anticipated bout was officially off the cards.
Warren has said he is not ‘looking to point the finger at any particular individual’, but insisted his team were pushing to get the deal finalised.
Hearn and Warren both featured on TalkSPORT radio yesterday morning to discuss the collapse of the deal and share their perspective on what went wrong.
Hearn was the first to appear on the TalkSPORT Breakfast show.
He said: “I mean the fact is, huge fights like these don’t get made in two weeks.
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“That’s the reality, when two guys have huge commercial deals with different broadcasters, it takes time.
“And we worked away with George Warren and it was actually going very,
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Match official David Bradshaw was hospitalised after he was attacked very well. Tyson Fury put us on the clock – on a 48-hour clock where the contract was nowhere near ready.
“He told us the fight was off, two days later Queensberry popped over and said, ‘Oh no it’s not, we’ve convinced him’. Then he gives us another day.
“You know these things take time. And you should look at AJ’s resume to know that he’s never ducked one fight, and I work for Anthony Joshua.
“So when he instructs me to make a fight, and when he agrees terms, I don’t pull out of those terms or try and go the other way.”
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