EDDIE HEARN teased ‘some good news’ to come for boxing fans NEXT WEEK with hopes Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury will be officially announced.
Joshua, 31, and Fury, 32, agreed a site deal last month, believed to be Saudi Arabia for an August 7 unification bout.
Hearn had hinted the fight would be officially announced during Billy Joe Saunders’ bout with Canelo Alvarez.
Unfortunately for fight fans, he did not go that far, but he did signal they won’t have to wait much longer.
He said: “Canelo and Joshua are the two biggest names in boxing. Oh and we got some good news for you next week too.”
Despite teasing the good news, it was not all smiles for Saunders, 31, who was stopped in eight rounds in Texas.
The Brit, who had Tyson Fury in his corner in Texas, was left with a sickening eye injury that forced him to go to hospital.
Canelo, 30, said after his brutal victory: “I knew the fight would develop from round eight and I know that I improve every day.
“He was not winning any of the rounds, not at all, I was winning round-by-round.
“I was adjusting very quickly.
“I knew it, I think I broke his cheek and I knew he would not come out. I told his corner he would not come out because I broke his cheek.”
Canelo has now eyed an undisputed super-middleweight title fight with Caleb Plant.
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He said: “I said the fight would develop, but it was not as difficult as I expected and I improve day by day.
“I was winning round by round, I told you my fight would develop six or seven rounds.
“I think I broke his cheek and I knew he wouldn’t come out. I told Eddy ‘he’s not coming out because I broke his cheek’.
“I have the best trainer, here’s Eddy, he tells me, I prepare, do this and I do it.
“The plan is to go for the other belt [Caleb Plant owns], I’m coming. I hope so.”
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
