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Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua to take place in August: reports

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Editor’s note: This article was originally published on SportingNews.com.

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The battle of the Brits is inching ever closer.

Years of rumors, speculation and trash talk between England’s two biggest fighters — literally and figuratively — is nearing an end, with heavyweight champs Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua set to square off this August in Saudi Arabia.

Matchroom Boxing’s Eddie Hearn revealed to Sky Sports that the date is still being finalized, but will likely land on either Saturday, Aug. 7 or the following week, Saturday, Aug. 14.

“Aug. 7, Aug. 14, I think it’s a very bad secret that the fight is happening in Saudi Arabia,” Hearn told Sky Sports. “It’s the same people we did the deal with for Andy Ruiz; that event was spectacular. As partners they were fantastic, as well.”

Should the fight happen in Saudi Arabia, it will be the second time that Joshua will have fought in the country. He stopped Andy Ruiz in December 2019 there to reclaim three of the four major heavyweight titles.

Joshua originally lost the belts in a TKO loss to Ruiz in his much-anticipated U.S. debut in 2019 at a bout in Madison Square Garden.

Fury, Joshua’s prospective opponent, currently holds the WBC heavyweight title. Fury won the vacant WBC championship when he knocked out Deontay Wilder in February 2020, which was his most-recent fight.

Joshua vs. Wilder was originally pegged as the heavyweight fight to make, but the two sides couldn’t come to an agreement on a unification bout. Fury returned to the ring in 2018 after three years away, eventually defeating Wilder for the green belt.

Now, it seems as though the time for talk is nearly over.

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