Bob Arum Claims Eddie Hearn Is Stalling Tyson Fury-Anthony Joshua Fight: ‘He Doesn’t Want The Fight To Happen’
Bob Arum believes Eddie Hearn doesn’t want Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua to happen.
Joshua is coming off back-to-back losses to Oleksandr Usyk and his stock is low, but he is in talks to face Fury, which would allow the Brit to try and become the heavyweight champ again. However, Fury has said Joshua hasn’t signed the contract and is getting frustrated with him and according to Aurm who promotes Fury, he believes Hearn has no interest in letting his fighter in Joshua face Fury.
“Eddie Hearn is stalling everything, because he doesn’t want the fight to happen. And why doesn’t he want the fight to happen? Because Joshua’s lost three out of his last five fights and he figures to lose again if he fights Tyson Fury and so Eddie is in effect being an impediment,” Arum told Talk Sport. “I don’t know of any issues, he sends a draft and then Frank and George [Warren] reply and then we don’t hear from Eddie for days, he’s stalling until it dies of its own volition. I don’t think Joshua is part of that. I think Joshua for whatever reason wants the fight to happen, I know Tyson Fury does.
“But, Eddie doesn’t and so Eddie is doing whatever he can to prevent the fight from happening. From Eddie’s standpoint, he believes he has a valuable asset in Joshua who has now lost three out of five fights and figures to lose again, which could make it four out of six and it would make him a lot less valuable after the event, so he’s trying to prevent it from happening,” Hearn continued. “You can’t make a fight unless somebody agrees to the contract and if you put him in a torture chamber, he still wouldn’t agree to the contract. There’s no issues, if there was some issues then I could see it but there are no issues. Get in the goddamn room with the Warrens and sit down and finalize the contract and let’s get it signed. I don’t blame Tyson Fury for getting upset at what is happening.”
As of right now, talks are still ongoing to make Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua, but it still is uncertain if it will happen.
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