an hour agoAnthony Joshua's new opponent confirmed
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)After the deal that Tyson Fury and Deonty Wilder arrived among them to duel in November this year for world champion title in the heavy weight held by the American boxer, it appears to have forced Anthony Joshua to retaliate by dueling with Dillian Whyte in April 2019. Eddie has confirmed this. [...]
This has been confirmed by Eddie Hearn, Joshua's manager and promoter, who seems to intend to offer his boxer a light duel.
“Seeing how things went, Dillian Whyte is the favourite boxer to duel with Joshua in April of next year. Wilder has declared he doesn't want to communicate with us anymore. So is his staff. So at the moment it seems that the challenge with Wilder is impossible to develop, since we cannot communicate with him”, Hearn said.
Joshua, world champion in heavy weight in categories I BF, WBO and WBA will brand the titles on September 22nd to <x0mbley” to Alexander Povetkin, but it seems that the British is already thinking about 2019.
After this statement from his manager, it seems hard for Joshua to duel with the winner of the Fury-Wilder challenge.
It is not known if we will have a British debit in the ring in case Fury takes the title Wilder and seeks to unify titles with a duel against Joshua.
Whyte had once beaten Joshua in an amateur duel, while Joshua had won their last encounter in 2015.
