When is Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua fight? All we know so far

Arguably the biggest and certainly the most lucrative and long-awaited showdown in British boxing history looks likely to finally come to pass after so many years of frustration, near-misses and animosity.

At the moment, we still don’t know for sure with a date and venue for the fight having yet to be announced despite the contracts being signed earlier this year.

However, it has long since been widely reported that November is the preferred month for it to take place.

There could be a complication, however, as organiser Turki Alalshikh wants the bout to be watchable at a good time for television audiences in the United States and elsewhere.

As such, he proposed the idea of an overnight card, taking place in London, to best suit the time zones across the pond.

“It depends if England give us all that we need,” Alalshikh said.

“We want the fight here in England, but we want the time zone of all the world, especially in America.

“If they allowed us to have Wembley late in the night, we want to do it in England. It is about the time and viewership.”

If that was to be the case, the main card may not start in the UK until 2am in order to coincide with ‘prime time’ in the US.

Wembley typically has an 11pm curfew for most weekend events and special approval would need to be granted to extend that into the early hours of the morning.

Eddie Hearn, Matchroom Boxing chief and Joshua’s long-time promoter, insisted that the bout would be held in the UK, but told DAZN in the build-up to Joshua vs Prenga that there was now an increasing possibility of it being taken to the US.

“We’ve been told in the last 24 hours that [a fight in America] is what they want,” Hearn said. “That doesn’t tally up with the contract that we signed.

“Until we’re happy, we expect every point of that contract to be followed. I feel like this fight should be taking place in the UK.

“Anthony Joshua insisted that the contract stated that the fight must be in the UK.

“If they want to change the contract, then we have to renegotiate the contract. Which, by the way, is not a problem. But it’s a conversation we have to have.”

Cardiff’s Principality Stadium had also been rumoured as a potential venue for Fury vs Joshua, having previously hosted the latter’s fights against both Joseph Parker and Carlos Takam.

However, Croke Park in Dublin was ruled out, following initial suggestions in some quarters that the fight could take place on the same bill as Katie Taylor’s farewell contest against Flora Pili in September.

If it was to go to the US, then it seems likely that New York’s Madison Square Garden – scene of Joshua’s shock loss to Andy Ruiz Jr in 2019 – would be firmly in the mix, unless organisers could secure a huge outdoor venue such as AT&T Stadium in Dallas, which has hosted many big fights in the past.