It appears that people will need to continue their long wait for the UK showdown between aging heavyweights Tyson Fury & Anthony Joshua until after 2024.
Both British heavyweights look like geriatrics at this point in their careers, and making fans wait long really doesn’t matter. They’re no longer worth watching, except for the old-timers who want to see them fight for sentimental reasons.
It would be more interesting watching Joshua or Fury thrown in with Arslanbek Makhmudov or Jared Anderson and watching the feeding frenzy.
Do fans even care about Fury vs. Joshua?
British fans will naturally be upset at not seeing Fury-Joshua in 2024, but Americans won’t care because they don’t rate these two aging, overrated guys, both viewed as shot and just collecting easy money at this stage of their career, swerving the killers in the heavyweight division.
Fury’s promoter co-promoter Frank Warren revealed today that the 34-year-old Joshua (26-3, 23 KOs) isn’t in the plan for Tyson in 2024.
WBC heavyweight champion Fury (34-0-1, 24 KOs), fresh off his controversial win over boxing novice Francis Ngannou last October, will be fighting IBF/WBA/WBO champ Oleksandr Usyk next in February, and there’s a very good chance he loses that fight unless we see similar scoring as the Fury-Ngannou clash.
Warren isn’t saying who Fury will be fighting in 2024 besides Usyk, but a rematch with Ngannou would seem like the probable opponent. If there’s quality judging that works that fight, Fury is in for it because Ngannou clearly has his number, taking away his only method of winning – leaning & mauling.
“He’d have a long wait for Tyson Fury. Tyson’s got his fight, and his program’s set out for next year and, at this moment in time, doesn’t include Joshua,” said Warren to Sky Sports Boxing.
“Joshua, he had two opportunities to fight him [Fury], one last December and this year. Those fights didn’t happen for whatever reason, and the situation is now that we are in a position where a number of big fights will be announced. It all depends on what happens on Saturday.”
The years have been unkind to Fury, turning him into a simple mauler of the worst kind. He looks middle-aged and incapable of beating the talented heavyweights in the division, like Arslanbek Makhmudov, Jared Anderson, Filip Hrgovic, Usyk, or even cruiserweight Jai Opetai.
With how the 35-year-old Fury has looked in his last two fights, it probably doesn’t matter that he’s not facing Joshua. Fury is looking an old washed has-been right now, and the only reason he’s still winning is because he’s fighting novices and journeymen.
