After months of arduous negotiations between competing promoters and rival champions, the contract for a two-fight deal between Tyson Fury & Anthony Joshua to unify the heavyweight titles has been finally signed.
"We'd like to get a site deal confirmed in the next month," said Eddie Hearn, managing director of Matchroom Sport, Joshua's promoter. "The hard part is always getting everybody to put pen to paper. But this was a major effort from all parties to get this over the line. You had rival promoters, rival networks & rival fighters."
Not to mention, rival egos, always a factor in boxing. The final signature came Saturday, in a Provision of Services agreement whose signees are believed to include Fury & Joshua; Joshua's promoter, Matchroom Boxing; Fury's American promoter, Top Rank; Fury's English promoter, Queensbury; & Fury's management company, Dubai-based MTK.
With the terms of the deal now agreed, principals can solicit offers from prospective sites.
"I actually feel we've done the hard part," said Hearn. "Speaking for myself, Anthony & his team at 258 management, I know how hard we've worked hard these last couple of months & I just feel that this fight is so big it's not a difficult sell. We've already had approaches from eight or nine sites. The offers have come from multiple countries in the Middle East, from Asia, eastern Europe & America."
"This is the biggest fight in boxing & one of the biggest sporting events in the world," Hearn said. "It will be a major, major win for a country that wants to showcase itself."
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