Barry Hearn is confident that a showdown between heavyweight titans Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury is on the horizon.
Both fighters have had impressive careers, with Fury earning titles such as the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO and the WBC at various points due to victories over notable opponents like Wladimir Klitschko and Deontay Wilder. Similarly, Joshua has also secured all but the WBC heavyweight title in his career, defeating the likes of Alexander Povetkin, Joseph Parker and Andy Ruiz Jr.
Despite being two of the most decorated heavyweights of their generation, Fury and Joshua have yet to face each other in the ring. However, Matchroom founder Hearn suggested this could change soon during Thursday's episode of The Barry Hearn Show. He shared: "Each fight has to be judged on its own merits. AJ and Fury will fight because his excellency, Turki Alalshikh, is committed to do their fight.
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"This man is a boxing fanatic, by the way. The guy that's pumping in all these hundreds of millions into boxing in the Middle East - Saudi in particular - has got plans to go bigger and further outside Saudi. That's gonna be an interesting development because he brings with it the one thing that fighters love more than anything else - huge purses.
"And he will be the one that will insist that this fight happens," reports the Mirror. Turki Alalshikh is a Saudi Arabian who is also the Chairman of the General Entertainment Authority. He has been instrumental in staging some of the world's most captivating
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