Anthony Joshua vs Jake Paul: Eddie Hearn confirms talks for fight before AJ targets Tyson Fury in 2026 | Boxing News
Anthony Joshua could fight Jake Paul then before targeting a highly anticipated fight against Tyson Fury in 2026, explains the promoter of the British heavyweight Eddie Hearn.
Joshua, who has not fought since his loss against Daniel Dubois in September of last year, underwent a surgery in the elbow in May, but aims to return to the ring later in 2025.
Since then, the YouTuber boxer who has become a professional Paul has defeated the veterans Mike Tyson and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. at Heavyweight and Cruiserweight respectively.
After defeating Chavez by unanimous decision last month, Paul boldly called a confrontation with Joshua and met Turki Alashikh to try to do so.
“Turki came and said:” I’m going to make this fight “, said Hearn, who also held a meeting with Alashikh and the manager of Paul Nakisa Bidarian, said Sky Sports News.
“Jake Paul’s manager came out and said,” No one decides who Jake Paul is fighting except us “. I have a little ego in this situation, which is quite remarkable!
“For us, we want to fight Tyson Fury, but we are going to fight before Tyson Fury is fighting because Tyson Fury is not going to fight Anthony Joshua before spring or summer 2026.”
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Fury is currently retired from boxing but has gained a return to sport, and Hearn is still eager to make a Joshua-Fury fight. He continued: “AJ came out [of action] To have come to a year in September, we really want to fight again. “”
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Paul is especially famous for his career on YouTube, but has now won 12 fights after launching his professional career in 2020.
The 28 -year -old suffered a defeat against Tommy Fury in 2023, but continued to beat the former UFC star, Nate Diaz, the American professional boxers Andre August and Ryan Bourland, as well as the UFC veteran Mike Perry.
A controversial fight against Tyson is so far the only fight of Paul’s heavyweights, before he went to Cruiserweight against Chavez.
“AJ-Paul is never a fight that we have planned, and it is never a fight that we have targeted,” said Hearn.
“But if you want Jake Paul to be the heating fight [for Fury] – And obviously, financially, this is an excellent opportunity for AJ – and you want to offer AJ the opportunity to turn Jake Paul from the boxing world, so maybe J would force.
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“Jake is a big and very Cruiserweight. I don’t think he is particularly competitive, but we know that in the world in which we live, many people would look at him.
“It may be the biggest fight that can be made, strangely, in sport. I will not sit here and say to you:” Yes, it’s a big challenge “.
“I think it is flattened as soon as possible, but there will be a huge amount of people in the world who would like to look at that.
“We will see. His excellence said to us,” Would you be interested in making the fight? “I can’t say no, because until we know the proposal, and if Jake Paul is crazy enough to intervene in the ring with Anthony Joshua, and he could be, because of the amount of money that will be at stake, who knows?
