Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua Talks Reopen for Wembley Stadium
Tyson Fury has been told where the Anthony Joshua fight is supposed to happen, and it is not New York. A clip from The Fighter and The Writer, the DAZN show hosted by Sports Illustrated’s Chris Mannix and former world champion Sergio Mora, put the message in one line after Eddie Hearn said Wembley talks were alive again.
“Tyson Fury, we will see you at Wembley!”
That is a public dare, not a signed venue. The hard news behind it came Friday, when Hearn said Sela had instructed him to start working on a London date and to speak with Mayor Sadiq Khan.
Hearn posted that British fans had been heard and that conversations for Wembley Stadium were back on. He told The Athletic that the corporate side of the fight had been caught off guard by how loud the UK demand had become.
The original paper, in Hearn’s telling, was always Britain. Joshua signed in April with a UK site as a principal term, and Matchroom has spent the summer arguing that Madison Square Garden would rewrite a deal already done.
Fury had already agreed to New York. Last week Hearn even sent an addendum that would have allowed the fight to move to the United States if the money and tax terms were fixed.
Then the pressure campaign landed. Khan said he was keen to host the bout, Hearn kept selling 100,000 at Wembley, and Sela, the Saudi company paying the bills, told Hearn to reopen the stadium conversation.
Fury, 38, has said for weeks that the city does not matter. He listed England, Ireland, Las Vegas, and New York as places he would fight, then posted a New York graphic and called the Garden the land of opportunity.
His promoter, Frank Warren, has said Fury’s contract is signed and that the wait is on Joshua. Warren has also said Fury would have preferred Wembley, but that the people funding the event were pushing America and Netflix.
Joshua is 36 and 30-4 after stopping Kristian Prenga in the second round in Jeddah on July 25. He had to get off the floor twice in the first round to keep this date alive.
Fury returned this year with wins over Arslanbek Makhmudov and Mariusz Wach after two 2024 losses to Oleksandr Usyk. November remains the window everyone keeps naming, whether the ring is in London or Manhattan.
Hearn’s Wembley update does not cancel the New York track by itself. It means both cities are now in the same week of talks after a stretch in which only MSG had momentum.
The Fighter and The Writer clip is the fan-facing version of that shift. It treats Wembley as the destination Fury cannot dodge if he wants Joshua, which is Hearn’s argument in shorter form.
Fury’s answer has been that he is not the one delaying a signature. He brought in Mike Tyson to call Joshua scared and said he would not wait on a man he called a coward.
There is still no official date, no confirmed stadium, and no joint announcement from Sela, Matchroom, and Queensberry.
If Wembley can be closed, the all-British fight finally gets the home night that has been sold for a decade. If the Garden remains the only date the backers will fund, the message on Mannix and Mora’s show will read as a hope, not a booking.
The next move belongs to the people writing the checks. Fury says he will walk into whichever ring they pick, and Hearn is now telling him that ring should be Wembley.