{"id":297655,"date":"2023-10-30T19:54:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T19:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=297655"},"modified":"2023-10-30T19:54:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T19:54:05","slug":"hearns-comments-on-fury-vs-joshua-are-a-stretch-it-just-doesnt-make-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/boxing\/hearns-comments-on-fury-vs-joshua-are-a-stretch-it-just-doesnt-make-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearn’s comments on Fury vs Joshua are a stretch \u2013 it just doesn’t make sense"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    Tyson Fury was still icing the black eye Francis Ngannou gave him in Saudi Arabia when Eddie Hearn began his verbal onslaught over in the US.<\/p>\n

    Everyone expected Hearn, as a bitter rival of the Gypsy King\u2019s promoters Frank Warren and Bob Arum, to stick the boot in on the Brit\u2019s below-par performance against the boxing novice.<\/p>\n

    The reverse would have happened if it was one of his star names scraping past an MMA fighter.<\/p>\n

    READ MORE: Tyson Fury shows off giant black eye after controversial victory over Francis Ngannou<\/b><\/p>\n

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    But what was surprising was the Matchroom chief\u2019s bizarre claim that the Saudi show was evidence that Fury should face his man Anthony Joshua next.<\/p>\n

    Hearn was speaking after O'Shaquie Foster had stopped Eduardo Hernandez for the WBC super-featherweight title so maybe it was the rush of adrenaline from that or the jetlag from being in Mexico.<\/p>\n

    Whatever the reason, what the promoter came out with was nonsense.<\/p>\n

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    He also seems to have forgotten that he had promised former world champion Joshua would take on Deontay Wilder.<\/p>\n

    That fight with the ex-WBC heavyweight champion was supposedly \u2018locked in\u2019 for December until a switcheroo in Saudi saw the money vanish from the people behind it and over to those backing Fury against Oleksandr Usyk.<\/p>\n

    But Hearn had still insisted Joshua would face Wilder and there would be a deal for Wembley or Las Vegas to take the place of the Middle Eastern petrodollars.<\/p>\n

    Yet here he was telling us that Fury fumbling around Ngannou was evidence that Joshua should get a shot at the WBC title instead of an undisputed clash with Usyk. It was some stretch to make.<\/p>\n

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    Joshua is in no position for a world title shot just yet. He\u2019s had comeback wins over Jermaine Franklin and Robert Helenius but he needs a statement win before he can call out Fury.<\/p>\n

    That was supposed to be Wilder. A clash between two men looking to fire themselves back into contention at the top of the division.<\/p>\n

    It seems perfect as both are big hitting heavyweights with their own vulnerabilities that will have the trash talk to sell out a stadium or get Vegas to stump up the money to pack out the Strip.<\/p>\n

    Yet Hearn wants a Fury fight? What is the point of calling out Fury when he knows quite well that the Gypsy King is in a legally binding agreement with Usyk and Saudi Arabia that they will meet twice?<\/p>\n

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