Tyson Fury v Anthony Joshua: Eddie Hearn says no contract sent from Fury for September fight

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Tyson Fury warring  Derek Chisora successful  DecemberTyson Fury gained a 10th-round triumph implicit Derek Chisora successful December astatine Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

Britain's satellite heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has not sent a declaration to Anthony Joshua lining up a September fight, says promoter Eddie Hearn.

"[Fury's squad has] reached retired but nary declaration has been sent," said Hearn.external-link

"We're negotiating a combat with [ex-heavyweight champion] Deontay Wilder [in December] and a combat successful August. We are not consenting to change those plans."

Speaking connected IFL TV,external-link Joshua's promoter Hearn added: "If our plans don't travel to fruition we would of people beryllium unfastened to discussing a combat with Tyson Fury. The Tyson Fury combat is simply a combat Anthony Joshua wants.

"The bully quality is we're talking, we'll spot what happens."

Fury has not fought since retaining his WBC rubric against Derek Chisora at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium successful December.

He wrote connected Instagram that a combat against 33-year-old two-time satellite champion Joshua is "a combat everyone wants to see, including myself".

Fury acceptable a deadline past September, which was not met, and said astatine the time: "It's officially implicit for Joshua. He is present retired successful the acold with the wolfpack."

A mooted combat with Oleksandr Usyk, the IBF, IBO, WBO and WBA champion, was expected to hap successful 2023 but fell through.

Fury has 33 wins and 1 gully from 34 bouts, portion Joshua - who bushed American Jermaine Franklin connected points successful London successful April - has 25 wins and 3 defeats successful his 28-fight nonrecreational vocation aft winning Olympic golden arsenic an amateur successful 2012.

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