Promoter Eddie Hearn says he will back Anthony Joshua “every day of the week” to beat Tyson Fury

ALTHOUGH as predictable as the approach during which Anthony Joshua demolished a 0-1 boxing novice on Friday night time (March 8) in Riyadh, nonetheless it’s attention-grabbing to hear simply how assured Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, is that Joshua beats Tyson Fury ought to they combat later this yr.

The plan, of course, is for Fury and Joshua to lastly meet – after years of avoiding one another – for the duration of the Middle East. Now, thanks to the cash came upon there, a pure combat between the two, Fury and Joshua, is smart in additional than simply competitors phrases. Now each particular person concerned stands to make life-changing cash from it; the boxers, the promoters, the managers and trainers and anybody else hanging on the two fighters’ coattails.

The final impediment, so far as getting the combat executed, have to be cleared on May 18. That’s when Fury fights Oleksandr Usyk, a person who has twice overwhelmed Anthony Joshua and with relative ease, too. Should Fury come by means of that combat unscathed, there will then be a critical push for Fury vs. Joshua in the desert in the second half of the yr.

The prospect of this excites not solely boxing followers but in addition Eddie Hearn, Joshua’s promoter. He, to his credit score, has publicly backed Joshua to beat Fury since the day he began working with him and now, following Joshua’s two-round dismissal of blended martial artist Francis Ngannou, Hearn says he has by no means been extra sure of the final result of Fury vs. Joshua.

“He (Fury) will always believe he can beat AJ,” Hearn informed Boxing News. “Respect to Tyson Fury. He’s an ideal fighter. I hope he wins (in opposition to Usyk). I’ve simply at all times believed AJ beats Fury and like this (the approach Joshua beat Francis Ngannou).

“If he hits Fury with one of those right hands, anybody, they’re going to sleep. He said to me, Tyson, ‘I hit him with a load of massive shots, never budged him once.’ That’s the difference. I’ll back him every day of the week to beat Tyson Fury.”

If solely boxing was that straightforward. Indeed, if solely getting Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury to share a boxing ring was that straightforward.