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Moses Itauma superfight can be as big as Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury, predicts legendary promoter

A future superfight between Moses Itauma and another British Heavyweight could be as big as a potential Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury bout.

For many years, boxing fans have been clamouring to see Anthony Joshua face off against Tyson Fury, especially when both men were undefeated Heavyweight world champions.

Fury retiring for the fifth time back in January and both men losing their titles put a damper on a potential clash between the two, although rumors of a future fight between Fury and Joshua continue to swirl.

This fight would be the biggest bout in British boxing, although one legendary promoter thinks a Moses Itauma clash could match it in the next few years.

Frank Warren thinks Moses Itauma vs Daniel Dubois can be as big as Fury vs Joshua

Legendary boxing promoter Frank Warren thinks a clash between British star Itauma and Daniel Dubois could be the biggest fight in British boxing.

Dubois is coming off a loss to Oleksandr Usyk, but is still early in his career and has a good chance of becoming world champion again in the future.

Speaking to BoxNation, Warren argued that a future superfight between Dubois and Itauma could be as big as a potential Fury vs Joshua clash.

However, he caveated that by admitting that it would need to happen in the future, with both men picking up big wins and world titles along the way.

Warren explained: “Moses against anybody’s a big fight. Manchester will be sold out with Moses. It’s huge. It’s massive. Of course, it’s a big fight.

Netflix has revealed plans for a new, feature-length documentary offering unparalleled insight into legendary boxer Tyson Fury.

The forthcoming film pledges to lift the veil on Fury’s ascent to stardom and his remarkable return to the sport.

The heavyweight champion himself will be delivering extensive interviews, whilst director Lucy Wilcox has also secured access to his close-knit circle of relatives, friends and associates to present a revealing portrait of his journey.

A summary for the planned documentary vows to chronicle “the intimate and remarkable journey of an extraordinary fighter who, against all expectations, battled through impossible odds to achieve one of the greatest comebacks of all time.

“A disruptor in and out of the ring, the film explores his personal battles, controversies, complex relationships, and transformative moments that have made him a defining force in modern boxing”, reports the Express.

Including previously unseen material and personal revelations from the boxer himself, Fury is being billed as the “definitive” documentary about one of boxing’s most significant figures.

The revelation follows hot on the heels of recent confirmation that Netflix is currently working on a second series of the fighter’s reality programme, At Home With the Furys.

Netflix are maintaining secrecy around additional information about the production, and no launch date has been confirmed yet.

All3Media’s Optomen are behind the documentary, the firm responsible for the reality show alongside last year’s Becoming Madonna. Director Wilcox, known for previous works such as The Undercover Police Scandal: Love & Lies Exposed and Paddy and Christine McGuinness: Our Family and Autism, is at the helm of this project.

George Waldrum, who brought us The Twister: Caught in the Storm, is serving as the executive producer, with Nick Hornby and Tina Flintoff as the creative directors.

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Fury is set to face off against heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk in April next year at the iconic Wembley Stadium in London.

However, after suffering consecutive losses against Usyk, Fury confessed just last month that he feels “too old” to make a comeback in boxing.

In response to Sky Sports’ query about his return to the ring in early August, he stated: “Never. Really! Too old, look at my beard, all grey. Boxing’s a young man’s game.”

The sports star was spotted filming a segment for At Home With the Furys at Doncaster Racecourse, where he watched his racehorse Big Gypsy King compete in the Unison Campaigning For Public Services Handicap over seven furlongs.

Anthony Joshua hopes to look good in his next outing before going for another big one.

Anthony Joshua is facing his latest career setback after being knocked out by Daniel Dubois last year. While Joshua has no immediate plans of retiring from the sport, and still has ambitions to conquer, his Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn emphasizes to Sky Sports the importance of them matching Joshua correctly in this next outing so they can try to make a big for him next summer.

“We’ve got to choose carefully for the next fight and I think the best way in all of this is just to be honest and say the next fight will be a comeback fight to build into a roll of the dice next summer,” Hearn said. “We want that to be against Tyson Fury. If it’s not, it’s going to be a massive fight.”

Hearn would admit that those plans to fight Fury are still largely up to what Fury will be willing to entertain by next summer, and while they will still aim for a top-15 kind of opponent for Joshua in the interim, they will not be looking at fighters nearing the top of that list, excluding names like Dubois, Usyk, Itauma and Parker as he says another loss for Joshua at this stage would be devastating.

If Joshua gets through his next scheduled fight with flying colors, the plan will be to throw him back in what Hearn says could be one last roll of the dice for Joshua, but believes opportunities for Joshua will be available as he expects Usyk’s undisputed hold on the world titles to soon fracture.

Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury offered boxing returns by veteran foe: ‘I’d love to get a chance…’

While Anthony Joshua remains locked in talks for a return to the ring, he and Tyson Fury have both been offered the chance to rematch a common foe in their comebacks.

Linked heavily in recent days to a lucrative fight with Jake Paul, Joshua has been sidelined since his knockout loss to Daniel Dubois last year.

As for Morecambe native Fury, the ex-WBC heavyweight champion has flip-flopped on his retirement recently. And is one of the numerous critics of Joshua’s potential fight with Paul.

But with their own prospective fight continuing to hit the skids, both Joshua and Fury have been offered a return to the ring by a familiar rival.

Dillian Whyte welcomes Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua rematches

Facing a sizeable task in his return to the ring this weekend, Dillian Whyte will take on the unbeaten uber-prospect Moses Itauma in a high-stakes pairing in Riyadh.

And approaching the tail-end of his career, Whyte has avenged just one of his three knockout losses — finishing Russian veteran Alexander Povetkin four years ago to reclaim the interim WBC heavyweight crown.

‘Usyk Trilogy, Not Anthony Joshua’s Fight Can Bring Me Out of Retirement’

Tyson Fury is more motivated by boxing Oleksandr Usyk a third time, than by coming out of retirement to fight his British rival, Anthony Joshua.

At the start of the year, still embittered after a second points reverse to Usyk, Fury announced that he would retire.

But Fury would return to boxing for a trilogy fight with Usyk. “We’ll see but he likes that fight and he wants that fight, and they were close fights by the way,” promoter Frank Warren told Sky Sports News.

“Anything can happen in this business, maybe that fight can be made if indeed Usyk wants to do it and Tyson wants to do it.

“I’m sure there’d be an appetite for it.” Though no date and venue has been set for it, Fury’s comeback could take place in April of next year.

“I don’t know. We’d like to see it happen. That’s all I can tell you at this stage,” Warren said. “He’s out of action this year.

Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk

“It’ll probably be early new year, April [that he returns]. We’ve got to have a conversation. The last thing Oleksandr wants to be talking about is fights. He’s been in a hard training camp; he’s got the victory and he’s back home with his family now enjoying the fruits of his labour.”

There would of course be tremendous public interest in Fury finally fighting Joshua. But Fury’s focus is on Usyk.

“The public all want to see him fight AJ and it’s a fight that’s not happened,” Warren said.

“It’s one of those fights that maybe should have happened a few years ago but it didn’t for various reasons. There’s a massive appetite for that fight too.”

But the promoter added: “Tyson what he feels he wants is he wants to try and put the record straight with Usyk. That’s the fight he would like.”

Lennox Lewis claims it would be a ‘travesty’ if Tyson Fury-Anthony Joshua never happens

Britain’s most recent undisputed heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis believes Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury must face each other in the ring before walking away from the ring for good, stating otherwise it would be a ‘travesty’.

The often-rumoured fight between the two Brits has been on fight fans’ wishlists for years, but despite Fury and Joshua’s spells as heavyweight world champions, the pair have yet to cross paths in the ring.

Fury, who retired yet again at the start of 2025, has stated that he will be coming out of retirement in 2026 to face Oleksandr Usyk a third time.

However that fight is yet to have been confirmed by anyone other than Fury himself, whilst Joshua is currently sidelined following elbow surgery.

‘The Gypsy King’ last fought in December 2024, in a unanimous decision loss to Usyk, whilst Joshua was stunned at Wembley Stadium in September by then-IBF champion Daniel Dubois.

Matchroom Boxing CEO Frank Smith suggested that Joshua could return towards the end of 2025, whilst boxing’s kingmaker Turki Alalshikh is reportedly keen on seeing the pair finally fighting in 2026.

Lewis feels that after years of a bout between AJ-Fury never materialising, boxing fans in the UK would be hard done by if they never saw the pair exchange blows.

Speaking to The Ring, former WBC, WBA, and IBF heavyweight champion Lewis shared: “It would be a travesty if they never fight each other.

“I think everybody’s looking at the Tyson Fury fight for Joshua and I think that’s a good fight for both guys. We need to see that fight. I think they owe it to the British public.”

In recent weeks Joshua has been linked to fighting YouTuber-turned-cruiserweight Jake Paul, in a bout where the financial benefits will clearly outweigh the sporting merits.

Lewis felt that if Joshua wanted to prove something upon his return to the ring, then he must fight another contender.

He continued: “It really depends on what he wants to prove.

“If he wants to prove that he’s still got it then he’s got to come back and box somebody that’s still about it.”

Eddie Hearn reveals relationship with Anthony Joshua prevented him from representing Fury & Usyk

Eddie Hearn has revealed that his strong relationship with Anthony Joshua has prevented him from representing Tyson Fury and re-signing Oleksandr Usyk.

One of the most influential names in British sport, Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn has represented some of boxing’s biggest stars in recent years, but arguably no bigger than former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua.

The pair’s relationship started in 2013, when AJ turned professional with Matchroom Boxing after securing gold at the 2012 Olympic Games. In 2021, Joshua agreed to his fourth and final contract with the company, signing a career-long promotional deal.

While Joshua’s relationship with Hearn and Matchroom has proved to be one of the most loyal in boxing, the promoter has suggested that it’s prevented him from representing some of the division’s most prestigious names.

When speaking to iFL TV, he said: “We had a three-fight deal and when he (Usyk) beat Chisora and moved up from cruiserweight, he was mandatory for AJ. The fourth fight was actually Anthony Joshua and so was the fifth fight.

“I said to Alex Krassyuk and the team: ‘Look, we’ll just negotiate the fight. I’m not going to re-sign him or be involved because I have AJ’.”

When asked if over the years he had spent too much time prioritising his relationship with Joshua as opposed to pursuing deals with other heavyweights, including Tyson Fury, Hearn responded:

“The answer to your question is yes.”

Because of my relationship with AJ, I felt very uncomfortable about other heavyweights that might fight him, particularly who do fight him.

– Eddie Hearn (iFL TV)

“When I had the chance to sign Tyson Fury, there were two things. One, he was physically in a place that I didn’t think he’d get back to the top. But also in the back of my mind, I’m thinking: ‘This really isn’t going to go down very well’ (with Joshua).

“AJ would never say to me: ‘Don’t sign him.’ I just feel like that’s my guy.

“I would feel very uncomfortable if we signed Tyson Fury and made that fight. I don’t want to go into Fury vs AJ representing both people.”

Tyson Fury reels off three-fight hit list as British legend prepares to reverse retirement

Tyson Fury could be coaxed out of retirement by three fights.

‘The Gypsy King’ hung up his gloves in January after suffering back-to-back defeats to Oleksandr Usyk in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

However, he has since teased a possible return to the ring.

Saudi boxing chief Turki Alalshikh recently revealed to talkSPORT that he is currently negotiating a three-fight deal with Fury.

And there were three names on the Brit’s lips when iFL TV asked him to list match-ups that would motivate him to box again.

“Well, don’t hold your breath, it’s not going to be this year, but it might be next year,” he said.

“If I get the right offer, it might be 2026. If it turns me on, then I will come back.

“But if there is no turn on, I will stay retired. AJ, [Oleksandr] Usyk, [Daniel] Dubois, any of them or maybe all of them.”

Fury won’t be able to make a comeback until next year due to his ongoing commitments to various projects with Netflix.

Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua

 

The two-time world heavyweight champion is currently in the middle of filming a documentary about his life as well as the second series of ‘At Home with the Furys’.

Once that is wrapped up, Alalshikh intends to start sowing the seeds for the long-awaited all-British showdown between Fury and Joshua.

“Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury next year, we are trying to do it and we are thinking about it,” said Alalshikh during a recent appearance on ‘The Boxing Voice’.

“I need to have, for each, one tune-up fight first.

“Why? Because they are both coming off losses. It’s to build it up.”

Tune-up fights have proved costly to Alalshikh’s plans in the past.

Over the last 12 months, Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney’s much-anticipated rematch as well as a blockbuster showdown between Joshua and Deontay Wilder have been derailed when one fight stood between them.

Boxing fans will be hoping and praying that Joshua vs Fury doesn’t meet the same fate.

The domestic dust-up has been in negotiations on several occasions to no avail, and even though neither man holds a major world title anymore, it remains the biggest fight in British boxing.

Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua: Lennox Lewis leads calls for all-British showdown

Former undisputed champion Lennox Lewis says fight fans are desperate to see all-British showdown between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua; Dethroned heavyweight champions Fury and Joshua plotting next steps after defeats to Oleksandr Usyk and Daniel Dubois respectively

Lennox Lewis has called on Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua to put on a fight “the world would want to see” and determine who is the greatest British heavyweight champion of their generation.

Former heavyweight champion Fury is technically still retired after hanging up his gloves in the aftermath of his second defeat to Oleksandr Usyk.

Fury’s route back to the ring appears to focus on avenging his two defeats to the undisputed Ukrainian in a trilogy fight, which he claims is scheduled for April 18 at Wembley Stadium.

But Lewis believes an all-British battle against Joshua is essential, likening it to his 1993 world heavyweight title fight against Frank Bruno.

“Fury needs a great fight,” former undisputed champion Lewis told Sky Sports. “He needs a great British fight like I had with Frank Bruno.

“They’ve been talking about it for a while, whether they’re going to do it or not, but I hope they do it because England loves a big fight when it comes to boxing.

“It’s a respect thing – who is the greatest British heavyweight champion? People want to fight for it to be at the top.

“The whole world would love to see that fight, especially the British fans, who love a good dust up between those two big heavyweights. I would love to see that fight.”

Fury focused on Usyk trilogy

Lennox Lewis and Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua

Joshua has been out of action since suffering the fourth defeat of his career – a devastating fifth-round stoppage at the hands of Daniel Dubois at Wembley in September 2024.

Dubois’ subsequent and conclusive defeat to Usyk inside five rounds, however, has only reinforced Fury’s belief that a trilogy fight with the Ukrainian, and not an all-British clash with Joshua, is his logical next step.

“After watching the boxing last night and reflecting on the situation,” Fury added, “AJ boxed Daniel Dubois recently and got ironed out, knocked down five times, flattened.

“Dubois was on a great run, three big knockouts in a row, including Joshua and [Filip] Hrgovic and [Jarrell] Miller, and he goes in there and gets absolutely plastered, iced out by Usyk.

“AJ got ironed out by Dubois properly and Usyk just ironed out Dubois. So, it just shows, there’s all the big fights – [like] Tyson Fury and AJ – but it’s quite pointless.

“The only man who’s been able to beat this ****** is myself and been ripped off. I’m not sure what’s going on, but you know what it is?

“GK [Gypsy King] all day, every day, still the top dog, still the top G. Beat him twice and I’ll do it again. Wembley, here we come.”

Three-time world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis is keen on the possibility of a Tyson Fury-Anthony Joshua showdown, saying the ‘whole world’ wants to see it.