Tyson Fury says the Joshua fight is at risk because Eddie Hearn's ego won't let Dana White anywhere near the promotion

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Tyson Fury has warned that his long awaited all British heavyweight fight against Anthony Joshua, scheduled for December and set to be broadcast on Netflix, could collapse entirely because of a promoter dispute centred on UFC president Dana White's involvement in the event. Saudi promoter Turki Alalshikh's company, known as The Ring, has been working alongside White to help put the fight together, but Eddie Hearn, who promotes Joshua through Matchroom, opposes White's participation and claims it violates their existing contractual arrangements.

Fury did not hold back in laying blame directly at Hearn's door, saying that Anthony Joshua and Eddie Hearn are trying to pull out of this fight, and that the dispute is mainly to do with Eddie Hearn's ego. Hearn fired back just as directly, insisting that Dana White cannot be involved with this fight promotion, and pointedly remarking that Netflix clearly didn't get the memo regarding that objection.

Frank Warren, Fury's own promoter at Queensberry Promotions, has credited White specifically with helping secure the Netflix broadcast deal in the first place, a deal that only came together earlier in 2026 after years of failed negotiations between the two heavyweights stretching all the way back to 2020, with previous attempts to make the fight happen having already collapsed in both 2021 and 2022. Joshua, now 36 years old, and Fury are both former two time heavyweight champions, and this latest promoter standoff represents the newest hurdle in what has already been a remarkably long and repeatedly derailed path toward finally getting the two men in the ring together.

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Given how many times this specific fight has already fallen apart since 2020, it is honestly hard not to feel a familiar sense of deja vu reading about yet another promoter dispute threatening to derail it all over again.

[NatureBoy_Dev]

Fury putting this so bluntly on Hearn's ego rather than anything to do with actual contractual substance is a pretty inflammatory way to frame a business dispute, that kind of personal framing rarely helps actually resolve these things quickly.

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Frank Warren crediting Dana White specifically with landing the Netflix deal makes Hearn's objection to White's involvement look considerably more awkward, hard to argue someone should be kept out of a promotion they arguably helped make happen in the first place.

[Hollow Pete]

Netflix clearly didn't get the memo is a genuinely sharp line from Hearn, though it does suggest Hearn's own camp may not have been as clearly looped into the broader promotional arrangements as they perhaps should have been.

[Attention Curtis]

At 36 years old, Joshua does not have unlimited time left to actually have this fight happen, every year this keeps getting delayed by promoter politics is a year closer to this fight never happening at all in either man's prime.