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Back in May Usyk handed ‘The Gypsy King’ his only career defeat and in the process became the first undisputed heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis nearly 25 years ago.

Joshua, who also got dethroned by the Ukrainian, will be keeping a keen eye on the second encounter. AJ faces IBF champion Daniel Dubois in September but told Queensberry Promotions that if he can get the better of ‘DDD’ and Fury can reverse the result against Usyk then fans could finally see the all British match-up they’ve long been waiting for in early 2025.

“It [Fury-Joshua] needs to happen, it’s just taking a long time, it needs to happen.

But he’s got his hands full and so have I. Let’s both do our jobs and we’ll see a positive 2025 I’m sure of it because we know that the people that are listening want to make good things happen. So potentially we might see Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury enter into a ring in collaboration with Riyadh Season, here in London.

But let’s get focused on Daniel, that’s our main objective and we’ll see what happens there.”

However, Usyk will go into the Fury fight as the favourite this time and Joshua believes the odds-makers have it right, predicting repeat rather than revenge.