Tyson Fury claims Anthony Joshua fight is OFF just days after announcement

Tyson Fury claims his fight with Anthony Joshua is in danger of being called off just days after it was officially announced.

Fury and Joshua are set to meet in a long-awaited Battle of Britain on 11 December at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium with the fight to be streamed live on Netflix.

An official announcement came through on Wednesday with a press conference scheduled in London next week.

But stunning developments overnight have left the fight in serious jeopardy once again.

Mike Coppinger of the Ring Magazine reports the fight could be called off due to ‘issues’ with a replacement bout between Terence Crawford and Ryan Garcia being considered. Fury fighting unified cruiserweight champion David Benavidez is also an option being considered.

While Coppinger provided no details on what was jeopardising proceedings, the presence of Dana White in the fight as a promoter and Eddie Hearn’s insistence the American is not involved is thought to be the cause of the issue.

Wednesday’s fight announcement stated Turki Alalshikh, the Saudi boxing kingpin financing the fight, and White ‘will collaborate to promote this historic showdown’.

Hearn who has promoted Joshua for his entire professional career, wasnot named in the official press release and has publicly claimed the UFC president cannot be involved.

In videos shared on social media overnight, Fury confirmed there is a serious threat to the fight going ahead, blaming Joshua and Hearn.

‘Breaking news, AJ and Eddie are trying to pulling out of the fight,’ Fury said in a video shared on Instagram.

‘It’s mainly to do with Eddie Hearn’s ego. He’s making up a million different things. AJ, pull your finger out you little white-flagged, yellow-bellied coward. Now you’ve got Turki Alalshikh finding alternative real men who will fight at the drop of a hat. So I hope you are happy you cowardly b*****ds.’

In a second video, Fury added: ‘So Eddie Hearn’s ego is trying to cost us and all the boxing fans around the world, the fight the whole world has been waiting for over a decade. And it is all because Eddie doesn’t want someone in the building. It’s pathetic and childish. He doesn’t want him in the building, like he’s nine year-old. You silver-spooned w****r.

‘And Joshua, you ought to be ashamed of yoblaurself. I’ve agreed to fight different locations for you. I had a contract, if I had stuck to that contract there would have been no fight. But I’m a fighting man. That’s the difference. You little cowards.’

Fury also shared a fight poster for a proposed bout between him and Benavidez on the same date in Cardiff.

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