Tyson Fury Says He Is Moving On From Anthony Joshua Fight
Tyson Fury says he is walking away from a heavyweight fight with Anthony Joshua after another stall over where the bout would be held. The former world champion used an Instagram video to tell Joshua and promoter Eddie Hearn that he will no longer wait, and that he is looking for someone else.
Fury has spent months trying to close a November date that was never officially announced. He says the problem is not his side.
“I can’t make a coward fight. Good luck to you. I won’t wait for a sausage who’s been knocked spark out by Daniel Dubois. I won’t waste my later years with a freak who don’t wanna fight, so I’ll move on.”
The Dubois line is a shot at Joshua’s fifth-round knockout loss at Wembley Stadium on Sept. 21, 2024. Dubois dropped Joshua four times and stopped him at 0:59 of the fifth round to retain the IBF title.
Fury used “sausage” for both Joshua and Hearn in the same message. He said Joshua should overrule his promoter and take the fight, and that Hearn has been twisting the story in interviews.
In the same video, Fury said he has agreed to fight anywhere and accused Joshua’s camp of stalling even after Saudi boxing power broker Turki Alalshikh put major money on the table. Those are Fury’s claims, not a confirmed accounting of the deal.
The location is the public sticking point. Fury’s camp has pushed the United States, with Madison Square Garden repeatedly named, while Hearn has held out for England.
Contracts were described as signed in April, with Netflix expected to carry the fight. No date or venue was ever put on a poster.
That gap has now lasted long enough for Fury, who turned 38 in August, to say he will not spend the back end of his career waiting. He also said he has been ready for this matchup for 10 years.
The history backs the delay, if not every insult. A 2021 attempt collapsed when a U.S. court ordered Fury to complete his trilogy with Deontay Wilder instead.
This latest run also drew in UFC CEO Dana White and Zuffa Boxing, according to reporting around the negotiations. It still did not produce an announcement.
Fury’s promoter, Frank Warren, had already signaled that the wait would not run much longer. This week’s video matches that deadline more than it creates a new one.
Both men have been active in 2026 while the paperwork dragged. Fury stopped Mariusz Wach in the seventh round in Pattaya, Thailand, in July.
Joshua needed a difficult night of his own on July 25 in Jeddah. He was dropped twice in the first round by Kristian Prenga before stopping the Albanian in the second to improve to 30-4.
Joshua has framed the Fury fight as the one he still owes the public. Fury is now saying that window is closed, at least from his side.
Nothing from Joshua or Hearn has confirmed that the bout is formally dead. Fury’s video is his position, not a joint cancellation.
What he wants next is clearer. He said there are world champions who do want to fight and do want to get paid, and that he will start calling them.
November is the slot he has been holding. If Joshua is out, that is the window where a replacement would have to be made.
A replacement against a titleholder would keep Fury in the heavyweight picture without another winter of posters and no fight. Joshua has spent much of 2026 pointing at this bout as the one that still had to happen.
For now, the all-British fight that was supposed to close 2026 is back in the pile of near-misses. Fury says he is moving on, and the next name he calls will show whether this chapter is finally finished.