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Eddie Hearn says Anthony Joshua will fight in May or June and begin training camp in January. By then, the former two-time heavyweight champion (28-4, 25 KOs) will have had four months off to recover from his fifth-round knockout loss to IBF champion Daniel Dubois on September 21.
Joshua aims for fight in May/June
Hearn claims Joshua, 35, will fight twice in 2025, and he hopes it will be against Tyson Fury over two bouts. If not him, a rematch with Dubois (22-2, 21 KOs). AJ still wants to avenge his loss, but first on the agenda is Fury if he doesn’t retire.
Understandably, Hearn is pushing hard to hurry up and make the Joshua-Fury fight because both fighters have aged and can no longer be counted on to defeat top-level competition. If Hearn waited, both guys would still be beaten by younger or even older heavyweights.
While both can still defeat many top 15 players, there are more than a handful of heavyweights in the division who would have an excellent chance of defeating them.
Hearn says Joshua-Fury and Chris Eubank Jr. against Conor Benn are the two biggest fights in British boxing. You could be right. Fans want to watch both contests, even if the rest of the world doesn’t.
“In May or June. He’s not in full training yet. “He will probably be ready to resume training in January,” Eddie Hearn told iFL TV on when Anthony Joshua will fight next. “Right now, 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 big hurry. AJ will fight twice in 2025. Once in summer and once in winter. If we can’t get the Dubois to fight and if Fury doesn’t want to fight, then you have to make the decision to fight someone, or do you wait for those fights?
“I can’t speak on behalf of AJ, who is prepared to fight, but what I know is that the focus is Daniel Dubois or Tyson Fury. Of course, he (Joshua) has done it all. If you put Fury on your resume, you’ve boxed pretty much everyone of your era.
AJ against Fury in 2025?
Fury has not yet said whether he will fight Joshua. He was quite upset after his 12-round unanimous decision loss to unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk in their rematch on December 21 in Riyadh. He believed he had won the fight by three rounds and appeared bitter at the post-fight press conference, complaining about his second loss against Usyk.
As upset as Fury is, the money he can get from a fight against Joshua will entice him back into the ring. He won’t sulk for long when Turki Al-Shiekh waves $100 million at him for the clash with AJ.
“It’s (Fury) a tough fight, it’s a 50-50 fight, but do it twice and you’ll see where we are in the end. The two biggest fights in British boxing, Eubank-Benn and Fury-AJ, by a mile. Nothing comes close,” Hearn said.
