The drawn-out saga surrounding a showdown between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua has officially descended into farce. The latest attempt to lock in a November 20 date in New York has once again hit a brick wall of backstage politics. This time, promoter Eddie Hearn and Joshua himself are pushing back against investor Turki Alalshikh’s push to hand operational control over to Dana White and Zuffa Boxing.
Speaking on Ariel Helwani’s show, prominent boxing analyst Ade Oladipo voiced what fight fans have been saying for years: the project has simply grown too bloated.
“There are too many cooks in the kitchen and too many inflated egos. Try aligning Hearn, White, Nick Khan, Netflix, Turki, and two superstar fighters in a single deal. Things like this don’t just happen with the snap of a finger.”
From an outside perspective, the situation is grim. The boxing world has waited over a decade for this matchup. Now, with both veterans clearly on the twilight of their careers, endless tug-of-war games between promoters are burning out whatever fan interest remains. As Oladipo correctly noted, the main issue is no longer where the fight takes place, but whether fans even care to watch two fighters who are practically one foot into retirement.
