British boxing promoter Eddie Hearn has admitted that the long-awaited heavyweight mega-fight between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua is likely headed to the United States, with New York’s Madison Square Garden emerging as the frontrunner, despite initial contract stipulations demanding a UK-based bout.
Hearn in a chat with Bad Left Hook, noted that organizers, broadcasters like Netflix, and Turki Alalshikh are heavily pushing to stage the blockbuster event in America.
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Anthony Joshua and his team originally favored keeping the fight in the UK, with Hearn expressing disappointment that local UK government and venue discussions have been sidelined.
“It seems like everybody is adamant that the fight takes place in New York,” Hearn said. “I mean, there isn’t really any consideration, there’s no willingness to speak to the government, Sadiq Khan, Transport for London. It’s just like ‘we want to do this fight in America.’ Tyson Fury has agreed to do it in America, and we haven’t at the moment.
“So we’re talking through a roadmap of what that might look like, to change the deal, and if they do all the thing that we discussed and agreed in principle, then I think there’s a very good chance the fight will happen in America. We’ll be disappointed but I can’t sit here and say to you — it’s like everything falls on deaf ears, right?
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“You signed a contract to do the fight in England. Why don’t you do it in England?…‘No, Netflix want it in America. No, Turki Alalshikh wants it in America. No, no, no, no.’ So, our conversations are like ‘okay, well if you want it in America, this is what we’d like to change within the contract and you agree to that, we got a fight.’
“We don’t want to change the contract. We don’t want to change the venue or the host country, but we will talk to you — if you’re that desperate for it, we’ll try to find a way to help, but it’s disappointing. But it is what it is. It’s been going on for a month and they haven’t changed their mind and there hasn’t even been a conversation about the UK.”
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Source: Complete Sports
