HEARN READY TO OFFER 50/50 SPLIT FOR WILDER FURY WINNER

Promoter Eddie Hearn told Seconds Out this week that Anthony Joshua is targeting all the belts and therefore the winner of Wilder Fury 2. Before that though, Joshua has 2 mandatory defences to make against Kubrat Pulev and Oleksandr Usyk, meaning an undisputed superfight is unlikely to happen in 2020.

“One thing is guaranteed, Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua will fight… there’s a fight actually you could sit down and make very easily, the Wilder fight, no so. Win, lose or draw for Fury on February 22nd, the Joshua Fury fight will happen in his career. I know both guys really want that fight, for Britain its a monumental fight, I am very confident that fight will happen, but the priority for AJ is to fight the winner.”

When asked how much Team AJ are willing to move their position from a financial point of view to make the fight happen, Hearn interestingly admitted that things have changed.

“Let’s be honest, a year ago Fury & Wilder were making a tenth, a fifteenth of what Joshua was making. Joshua was undefeated, he held 4 belts, he was the clear king of the division. These guys [Wilder & Fury] were both offered 60/40 [to fight Joshua], which I felt at the time was just the most generous deal that we could be possibly offer them, and they wanted 50/50. Fast forward 12 months, you’ve got Joshua losing and recapturing the belts, Fury & Wilder who have fought each other, whose profiles have both considerably raised…when things change, I am big enough to say things have changed and they have changed. In my opinion, I don’t necessarily think they are still worth 50/50 but I can see now the argument. Its going to get to a stage where they will probably only take the fight at 50/50.. and that will probably be the deal.”