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Fifa considers major football shake-up with new homegrown player rule
Football’s global governing body Fifa has initiated discussions regarding a groundbreaking proposal that would mandate all professional teams to feature at least one homegrown young player on the pitch throughout matches.
The Fifa Council agreed on Tuesday to aim to develop a formal plan within the next year following extensive global consultation with stakeholders.
This initiative seeks to enhance playing opportunities for young talents developed within clubs, which often prioritise acquiring and importing established players.
Fifa stated its objective is “a regulatory obligation that senior club teams are obliged to always have at least one homegrown player from the Under-20 or Under-21 category on the field of play.”
This potential rule represents a stricter approach than current regulations in both national and international club competitions, including the prestigious Champions League.
Existing rules typically require a quota of homegrown and club-trained players within squad lists, but crucially, impose no obligation for their selection in starting line-ups or during games.
For instance, Champions League guidelines stipulate that each squad must reserve a minimum of eight places for “locally trained players” within its 25-player maximum.
Uefa, the Champions League organiser, defines a locally trained player as one nurtured either by the club itself or another club in the same country for at least three full seasons between the ages of 15 and 21. For example, Arsenal’s Bukayo Saka and Manchester United’s Kobbie Mainoo are considered locally trained players.
Fifa has been exploring a number of rule changes in recent months, with VAR set to have more power at this summer’s World Cup.
Using VAR to check corners will be an option for competitions from this summer, while referees will also be able to do a five-second countdown if they feel players are taking too long with throw-ins or dead-ball goal kicks.
Fifa has also been trialling a new “daylight offside” rule in Canada, an idea promoted by former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.
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Boston Fleet Playoff Tickets 2026: See the Cheapest Prices, Seats, Schedule for PWHL Postseason Games in Lowell
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The Boston Fleet head to the PWHL Playoffs for the first time since the league’s inaugural season. The team attempts to reach the finals once again, this time looking to win it all.
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Boston went from not qualifying for the playoffs last season to becoming one of the best teams in the league this year. That’s thanks to the efforts of Abby Newhook, Alina Muller and Olympic heroes Megan Keller and Aerin Frankel.
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After securing one of the top playoff spots, the Fleet will face Ottawa in the semifinals. Boston aims to beat a team that gave them trouble this year and earn its first Walter Cup.
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Boston will play Ottawa in the semifinals. The first two games will be played at the Tsongas Center in Lowell. Tickets for Game 1 start at $28 and can reach up to $171. Ticket prices for Game 2 start at $30 and can reach up to $468.
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Boston will take on the Ottawa Charge in the semifinals of the PWHL Playoffs.
Here’s a complete schedule of upcoming games:
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Semifinals vs. Charge
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Game |
Date |
Opponent |
Time (ET) |
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1 |
April 30 |
vs. Ottawa Charge |
7 p.m. |
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2 |
May 2 |
vs. Ottawa Charge |
7 p.m. |
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3 |
TBA |
at Ottawa Charge |
TBA |
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4 |
TBA |
at Ottawa Charge* |
TBA |
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5 |
TBA |
vs. Ottawa Charge* |
TBA |
*If necessary
PWHL Playoffs 2026 dates
The PWHL Walter Cup Playoffs are about to begin. Below is a look at key dates throughout the postseason.
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April 30: First day of playoffs – Boston Fleet vs. Ottawa Charge
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The SEC’s reign as the king of the first round of the NFL draft was toppled by the Big Ten.
But the conference that coined the mantra “It Just Means More” for its dominance of college football in the 2010s remained in the top spot for the entire draft after the SEC set a record for the number of players picked over the three days.
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Thanks to recent national champions Indiana and Ohio State, the Big Ten led the way with 10 first-round picks, marking the first time the SEC didn’t have the most players taken in round one since 2015. The SEC only had seven — down from a record 15 last year — and the lowest total for the conference since that 2015 season when the ACC and Pac-12 led the way with nine first-rounders each and the SEC had seven.
The first player drafted from an SEC school came when LSU cornerback Mansoor Delane went sixth overall to Kansas City, marking the first draft without a top five SEC player since 2018 when Roquan Smith was the first taken at No. 8 overall by the Bears.
But the depth of the SEC shined on the final two days with the conference leading the way with 29 day two picks in rounds two and three and 51 more over the last four rounds on the final day of the draft. The 87 players in total were the most ever and easily beat the total of 67 from the Big Ten.
The SEC has had the most players picked for 20 straight drafts since the ACC took top honors in 2006. Florida won the national title the following season, starting a stretch where the conference won 13 of 17 national championships.
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That run of dominance ended when Michigan won it all in 2023 with fellow Big Ten members Ohio State and Indiana following that up with titles of their own.
The other two power conferences were far behind with the Big 12 and ACC each having six first-rounders and 38 players picked in all.
The recent realignment that added more schools to all four power conferences, along with reduced restrictions on transfers and the advent of NIL payments all have combined to consolidate the talent at the biggest schools.
San Diego State cornerback Chris Johnson was the only player who didn’t finish his college career in the SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, ACC or Notre Dame who was taken in the first round after going 27th to Miami.
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The next Group of Six player off the board was Toledo safety Emmanuel McNeil-Warren at No. 58 to Cleveland and only one other was picked on the first two days with Georgia State receiver Ted Hurst going 84th to Tampa Bay.
In all, just 14 players from the Group of Six were drafted with the American and MAC leading the way with four each. There were 39 others who transferred from a Group of Six school to a Power Four conference.
Seven players came from FBS independents with Notre Dame having six and UConn one.
There were four players who came from FCS-level schools and one who didn’t play college at all with Philadelphia taking Nigerian native Uar Bernard in the seventh round as part of the NFL’s International Pathway Program.
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Record low draft for running backs
The first round of the draft provided some memorable milestones for running backs with Jeremiyah Love becoming the first top five back in eight years when Arizona took him third overall. His Notre Dame teammate Jadarian Price went with the final pick of the round to Seattle.
That marked the sixth time in the common draft era starting in 1967 when two running backs from the same college were taken in the first round of the same draft with it last happening in 2008 with Arkansas’ Darren McFadden and Felix Jones.
Running backs mostly were an afterthought after that.
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The next back off the board came near the end of the third round when San Francisco took Indiana’s Kaelon Black 90th overall, marking the fewest running backs taken in the first three rounds of the common draft.
Only 10 more running backs went on the final day with the 13 total the fewest taken in any draft.
Tight ends had a banner weekend with 22 picked, the most since 2015, according to Sportradar, when there were also 22 selected as the league’s trend of more multi-tight end formations put a premium at the position.
The trenches as usual were dominant with teams drafting 51 defensive linemen and 50 offensive linemen. There also were 46 defensive backs, 36 wide receivers, 26 linebackers, 10 quarterbacks and three specialists.
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Ohio State leads the way
Ohio State was the third fastest school ever to have four players picked in a draft with Carnell Tate, Arvell Reece, Sonny Styles and Caleb Downs all going in the top 11 of the draft.
The only schools ever to have four players picked that quickly were Michigan State with four of the top eight in 1967 and Notre Dame with four of the top 10 in 1946.
The Buckeyes didn’t slow down from there with seven more players drafted, giving them the most of any school this year with 11. Alabama and Texas A&M each had 10, followed by Clemson, Miami and Texas Tech with nine apiece.
This also marked the 88th straight draft that both Michigan and USC had a player picked for the longest streaks of any school. Notre Dame has missed only one year (1977) of having a player picked in the regular draft since 1938 but did have running back Al Hunter taken in the supplemental draft that year.
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Wisconsin had its streak of at least one player picked each year since 1979 snapped.
Speeding up the draft
The NFL shortened the time between picks in the first round from 10 minutes to eight minutes, cutting the total duration of the round to under three hours.
The league said the first round took 2 hours, 53 minutes, down 36 minutes from last year and 40 minutes less than the average of the previous five drafts.
The duration of the first round has been cut in half since commissioner Roger Goodell’s first draft in 2007. Teams that year had 15 minutes to make their picks in the opening round, leading to a 6 hour, 8 minute round in 2007.
The Minnesota Vikings are one of the NFL’s very worst teams. Source? Look no further than NFL.com, a site that called Kevin O’Connell and Kyler Murray’s squad the league’s fifth-worst after the draft.
A No. 28 ranking feels detached from Minnesota’s actual roster profile.
Yes, the ranking truly befuddled the masses, as most purple fans are generally excited about the Vikings in 2026.
Minnesota Has Too Much Talent for a Basement Forecast
This can be considered an offseason low point in the court of public opinion.
NFL.com: Vikings Rank 28th
Fans opened the batch of power rankings this week and scrolled, scrolled, and kept scrolling to the fifth-worst spot on the list.
Eric Edholm defended the placement:
After the surprise of the Caleb Banks pick wore off, the Vikings settled into a little groove with a few of their selections. Among the value picks I liked: LB Jake Golday, OT Caleb Tiernan, S Jakobe Thomas and CB Charles Demmings. Even a fullback in Round 5 didn’t offend me; if anything, it made me nostalgic.
I certainly understand Vikings fans could feel differently about it, given their personal investment in the team, but if Max Bredeson becomes the next C.J. Ham, it’s a good pick. This was not a year where fifth-round picks needed to be treated like military codes. Most of the same questions about Minnesota that existed last week still remain, although trading Jonathan Greenard both adds a worry and clears up cap space.
I wouldn’t be shocked to see the Vikes make a veteran addition or two in the coming months. They could use a center, a safety and maybe another receiver.
That right there is motivation for the Vikings to beat the odds.
… with the NFL’s 3rd-Best Defense?
It’s difficult to stomach a ranking this horrid because the league’s fifth-worst football team would likely have to feature a bad offense and a bad defense, or, in this case, a bad offense and a middling defense.
That’s just not the case in Minnesota, not with Brian Flores in charge. Since Flores arrived in the Twin Cities three years ago, the Vikings’ defense ranks second in the NFL per DVOA and EPA/Play and even checked in at No. 3 last year behind the Houston Texans and Seattle Seahawks.
If one assumes that Flores’s defense retains its efficient ways — or even falls to No. 8, for example — teams with Top 10 defenses don’t usually scrape the bottom of the barrel in wins and losses.
In that regard, it seems Edholm’s power ranking fundamentally disregards Flores’s employment in Minnesota.
… and Kyler Murray?
Furthermore, Minnesota now has Murray in the saddle as the QB1, and some have mistakenly treated him like a poor quarterback who needs O’Connell’s Midas touch.
Murray isn’t a Sam Darnold or Daniel Jones — down on his luck with poor past performance and teetering on a career-long bust outcome. Murray has played in 74% of his team’s games in his career, a figure that would have approached 80% had the Cardinals not eased his workload late in 2025. He boasts two Pro Bowl selections, 4.38 speed (recorded during his 2019 draft year), a deep ball capable of traveling 70 yards, and accuracy ranked among the top five ever.
At age 28, he maintains a career EPA+CPOE of 0.090, surpassing figures from Baker Mayfield, Trevor Lawrence, Daniel Jones, and C.J. Stroud. This efficiency aligns with Justin Herbert’s performance in 2025. When playing a full 17-game season, Murray typically averages:
- 3,997 Passing Yards
- 30 Total Touchdowns
- 11 Interceptions
- 67.1% Completion Rate
- 623 Rushing Yards
That level of production is comparable to Lamar Jackson’s. Murray’s remarkable speed is evident on the field; his 2019 40-yard dash time alone would instantly make him the fastest QB in Vikings history, even surpassing those of current Vikings wide receivers Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison.
Edholm’s pecking order for the Vikings suggests a) the Flores defense will fall off b) Murray will stink or get hurt.
Only Thing Left Is to Prove Them Wrong
Of course, this is an April power ranking, 4.5 months before the start of the regular season. Nobody will care about Edholm’s ranking next autumn and winter, especially if the Vikings win several games and reach the postseason. Power rankings are merely a thermometer of public opinion and carry no mandate for anything.
Therefore, the Vikings have a simple mission in 2026: prove that an NFL 28th-place ranking is silly. And based on the fact that they finished 9-8 last year with the league’s fifth-worst quarterback play per Dropback EPA, the sky is the limit with Murray in the house.
Power rankings be damned.
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Finding a shaft profile for your driver is hard enough. When you find one you love with a driver head that works for your swing, it feels like you’re unstoppable. Finding a perfect fairway wood combination, however, can sometimes feel impossible. I don’t actually have a 3-wood in the bag because I’ve found it so difficult to find the “perfect” one for me. Most of that insecurity is due to the difference in the swings. I can feel invincible with the driver, but as soon as you tell me to hit a fairway wood off the turf, I’ll fall apart.
As I’ve experimented more with trying to find the right 3-wood for my game, my shaft selection has been all over the place. But one thing, particularly in the 5-wood category, that I actually love dearly, is that the profile needs to be different than my driver shaft. With my driver, I hit up on the ball pretty heavily, but with the fairway woods I like to be able to pinch the ball and even take a small divot. The difference in those two swings can be pretty dramatic, and that’s what causes the need for a different shaft profile.
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I’ve made videos on my Instagram before talking about matching up a shaft profile to the player’s unique swing, which also means making sure that they entire build combination of head and shaft needs to work properly as well. However, even the same player can have different swings throughout the bag. The shaft profile in your driver may not end up being the same shaft profile you need to play in other areas of the bag.
For me, and lots of players on the PGA Tour, it’s easier to pair my driver with a lower launching part and my fairway woods with a higher launching part. For the driver I like to use something like the Mitsubishi Diamana WB or the Tensei 1k Pro White to help keep up with a bit more of an aggressive swing from the top, that I lean back on to hit up on the ball. I want the tip section to be a bit more stable so that it’s not providing any additional kick at impact. Since I am already providing a bit more dynamic loft naturally with my swing, I don’t want the tip of the shaft to increase that even further.
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In a fairway wood, I like something a bit softer. I’ll end up getting my attack angle more neutral, or even slightly down on the ball with the fairway woods, and my swing mechanics will change slightly. Getting closer to an iron swing, where I also have a shaft profile with a slightly stiffer handle section and a slightly softer tip section. Having a slightly softer tip section with something like a Tensei 1k Pro Red or a Diamana RB helps to feel a bit more confident getting down on the ball and pinching it off the turf. This helps to manage a nice launch and spin window, and I’ve also seen it actually increase speed as well in the fairway woods for me compared to a stiffer tip profile.
Who SHOULD play the same profile in both clubs?
It really all comes down to the fit. Lots of players at the highest level are playing the same shafts in their driver and fairway woods. The LPGA’s Hannah Green is on quite a run this season sitting second on the points list for the LPGA after two wins and a recent top-10 at the first major of the year. She plays a Mitsubishi Diamana RB in both her driver and her fairway wood; increasing weight by one class heavier in her fairway wood compared to the driver.
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Hannah has a more similar swing with both her driver and the 3-wood, so it’s more comfortable to stay in the same timing and the same feel by sticking with the same shaft. Any player at any skill level who is delivering the club in a similar way is probably going to feel very comfortable with the same shaft profile in each club. I’ve also tended to see a trend in players on different ends of the speed spectrum fall into the same profile. Players, like a Xander or a Matt Fitzpatrick, that are more powerful and really need help controlling the club head tend to stick to the stiffer profiles throughout most of the bag. The same can also be said for players that are on the slower side of swing speeds. These players, like Hannah Green, tend to stick to the same swing no matter what part of the bag they are in, and having the same profile helps produce a bit more launch and ball speed at that level of swing speed.
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Ramon Cardenas, who managed to drop Naoya Inoue in their 2025 bout, has shared his thoughts on this weekend’s historic showdown with Junto Nakatani.
Inoue has been dropped twice over the course of his outstanding 32-fight career, but rose to win in emphatic fashion on both occasions to remain undefeated. This weekend, he takes on what should be his most difficult challenge yet in a fascinating scrap with fellow Japanese pound-for-pound star, Junto Nakatani.
A three-division champion, Nakatani has been somewhat in the shadows of Inoue, in hot pursuit of a clash with his countryman, which he has now finally secured.
Speaking to Ring Magazine, Cardenas, who lost to Inoue last year and has sparred a total of 99 rounds with Nakatani, explained that, for the latter to pull off the upset, he must use his range.
“When the going gets tough, Junto still sticks with the game plan, even if it may be difficult. For Junto to win this fight, he needs to use his reach to do what he wants that night. He can’t let Inoue control the pace.
“And with Junto’s length, it could be hard to get into range. Junto is very good at using his range. When I fought Inoue, I said going in that I had to be perfect for 36 minutes. But for Junto, I feel that it could be a 50-50 fight.”
However, the Texan added that Nakatani may have more difficulty landing the overhand that he and Luis Nery did in Inoue’s two career knockdowns, due to the adjustments made by the debatable pound-for-pound king.
“It’s going to be difficult for Junto to drop Inoue with the overhand left the same way Luis Nery and I did because Inoue is expecting it, one hundred percent.
“You can tell that Inoue has worked on neutralising the left hand connecting on him ever since fighting me. I’ll bet you anything they are constantly drilling to keep the right hand tucked to the chin to not let the left hand get through.
“Whoever makes the first big mistake is going to pay. I don’t know if it will be a knockout or not in this fight, on either side, because they both know how to adjust.
“If Hernandez couldn’t knock out Junto, I don’t think Inoue can necessarily do it either. I see both guys imposing their dominance.”
‘Dinamita’ refused to offer a prediction for the contest, but finished off by giving credit to both men for accepting such a difficult fight and setting an example for their fellow boxing superstars.
“I’ll keep who I actually think will win to myself. The best answer I can give is that boxing will win. This is the kind of fight that boxing needs – the top guys, the best fighting the best. Other people should take note. It’s not about being undefeated; that’s bogus.”
Inoue-Nakatani takes place on Saturday, May 2 at the Tokyo Dome.
Promoter Frank Warren says Anthony Joshua’s proposed fight with Tyson Fury would be in doubt if Joshua loses to Albania’s Kristian Prenga in July.
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In just three months, I’ve moved from a 2-handicap to a 1. The swing feels less like a constant battle and more like a collaboration with the gear I’m using. The confidence I’ve gained isn’t about chasing a perfect number; it’s about knowing I can pull any iron, hit my number, get it clos, and walk away from a round without giving away three or four shots to avoidable mistakes.
Scratch is still on the horizon, but I’m closer than I’ve ever been. And I credit a lot of that progress to being deliberate about my equipment and trusting the process.
When I pull an iron now, I’m not wondering if I’ve got the right model or loft. I’m looking at the shot in front of me, feeling the club respond the way I expect and letting that confidence take over.
If you’re chasing consistency, I’d offer the same advice: start with gear that matches your swing, not the other way around, and give yourself the space to grow into it.
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Matt and Alex Fitzpatrick’s emotional victory at last week’s Zurich Classic was not the first time the brothers teamed up for a big win. Back in 2013, a 13-year-old Alex caddied for Matt during his U.S. Amateur victory at the Country Club.
If you thought that would be a dream-come-true for the pre-High School Alex, you thought wrong.
It turns out that the Fitzpatrick parents had to bribe their young son with a shiny new device to convince him to carry Matt’s bag that week, as Alex explained on Tuesday at the 2026 Cadillac Championship.
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For most of their lives, Alex Fitzpatrick had to live in the shadow of his big brother. Matt Fitzpatrick showed signs of greatness early on.
He backed them up with a career-changing victory at the 2022 U.S. Open, at the exact same course, the Country Club in Brookline, where he won the U.S. Amateur with Alex on the bag nine years before.
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Matt is currently on the hottest streak of his career, having won three PGA Tour events since late March to rise to World No. 3. But Alex is on a tear of his own.
After capturing his first DP World Tour win in March, he teed it up with Matt at the PGA Tour’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans last week, for what he was expecting to simply be a good opportunity for “spending time with my brother.”
Alex got the family time he was looking for, but he also walked away with a victory, giving him a PGA Tour card for two years, over $1 million in prize money and spots in the remaining Signature Events.
So while Matt is taking it easy this week following his third win of the year, Alex is in Florida to play the Cadillac Championship.
Alex Fitzpatrick reveals parents’ bribery scheme to get him to caddie for Matt
During his pre-tournament press conference, Fitzpatrick was asked about his original partnership with his brother Matt at the 2013 U.S. Amateur.
For outsiders, it was a fairytale week that harkened back to Francis Ouimet’s U.S. Open win at Brookline one hundred years before, when 10-year-old Eddie Lowery famously carried his bag.
For Alex, the vibe was very different. In fact, he didn’t want to caddie for Matt that week at all. Their dad, Russell Fitzpatrick, was then forced to take an extreme measure to make it happen: bribery. He promised to buy Alex a new phone if he caddied for Matt in the tournament.
“I only caddied for [Matt] at the U.S. Amateur because my dad promised me a new phone,” Alex revealed in his Tuesday press conference at Trump Doral. “That was only reason why I caddied for him, because it was too expensive to buy a caddie for the week, so I got dragged into that one.”
Tyson Fury could take another fight before meeting fellow British heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua later this year, according to promoter Frank Warren.
Fury and Joshua have already agreed to fight in what is expected to be one of the biggest boxing events of the year.
However, Joshua must first face Albanian boxer Kristian Prenga in a warm-up fight on 25 July in Saudi Arabia.
Warren warned that the much-anticipated Fury vs Joshua fight could be cancelled if Joshua loses.
“If he loses to this guy, it kills the fight,” Warren told BBC Sport.
The Queensberry Promotions boss also revealed that Fury is expected to earn the biggest purse of his career against Joshua, higher than the reported £80 million he made from fighting Oleksandr Usyk in 2024.
Fury recently returned to the ring after 15 months away, beating Arslanbek Makhmudov on points in London on 11 April.
Warren explained that Fury wants to stay active and may take another bout before facing Joshua, with the showdown likely to happen in late October at the earliest.
“Tyson wants to keep busy. He likes being in the gym because it helps him mentally and physically,” Warren said.
Warren also suggested that the loser of the Fury-Joshua fight could retire from boxing, while Fury may still want another fight with Usyk in the future.
Although Saudi Arabia is backing the fight financially, Warren said he would prefer the event to take place at Wembley Stadium.
“That is where fans want to see the fight. Wembley is the national stadium and it makes sense to hold it there,” he added.
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