Anthony Joshua on brink of £500million two-fight mega deal with Tyson Fury – but must survive Daniel Dubois test first

ANTHONY JOSHUA is 1 triumph distant from a imaginable HALF-A-BILLION-POUND Tyson Fury two-fight mega deal.

Victory for Watford’s 34-year-old Olympic legend, implicit Daniel Dubois contiguous astatine a 96,000 sell-out Wembley, volition marque him the hottest summons successful boxing.

And - arsenic agelong arsenic Fury isn’t violently knocked retired and injured successful the Oleksandr Usyk rematch connected December 21 - the wheels are already successful question for FINALLY making the combat everyone successful England wants to see.

Our AJ whitethorn imagination of getting 1 backmost connected the 37-year-old Ukraine icon who dominated him doubly to snatch distant his WBA, IBF and WBO belts.

And a triumph implicit 27-year-old Dubois - with agleam young trainer Ben Davison - would rightly marque him a assured boost astir a changeable of revenge

But extracurricular of Team AJ and cheerleader Eddie Hearn - determination is nary clamour astatine each to spot Joshua vs Usyk 3 - particularly erstwhile the champion helium tin bash is resistance it backmost to 2-1 against a antheral who would beryllium pushing 40 with 4 kids indoors to interest about.

For each of AJ’s unthinkable occurrence and downright decency - London 2012's legacy, singlehanded gyration of British boxing, and redeeming of hundreds of section gyms with idiosyncratic donations successful lockdown, erstwhile the Government near the athletics to dice - it is simply a stain connected his grounds that helium ne'er faced a highest and and undefeated Fury oregon Deontay Wilder.

He has been the aureate goose and the currency cattle successful a athletics that is usually a spot of a pigsty - his presumption arsenic a British athletics fable is cemented for eternity.

But crossed the Pond successful America - which volition instrumentality arsenic the boxing Mecca erstwhile Saudi get bored oregon execute their extremity with backing fights - helium is seen arsenic a dud.

The violent knockout nonaccomplishment connected his 1 and lone travel to the Big Apple, near a bitter sensation implicit determination and snatching a triumph backmost implicit Usyk volition not assistance his estimation extracurricular of his diehard fans.

But taking connected Fury - successful what would most apt beryllium a two-fight woody with the opener successful Riyadh and the instrumentality limb successful England - mightiness charm immoderate of his remaining critics and doubters.

The large men from erstwhile eras - that AJ studies and admires - did each look their finest rivals, immoderate - similar George Foreman and Larry Holmes - adjacent crossed generations.

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But if helium hangs up his gloves with the Gypsy King and Wilder connected his record, past radical volition person the close to frown erstwhile his sanction is mentioned among the pantheon of greats.

But 2 large Fury fights - each apt to bash astir 2m pay-per-view income astatine a conjecture of £30-a-pop - with 1 apt to merchantability retired a 100,000 seater UK stadium astatine an mean of possibly £500 a summons - would beryllium a spectacle close up determination with the Fight of the Century, Thrilla successful Manilla and Rumble successful the Jungle.

The satellite volition halt to ticker the build-up - fto unsocial the fight.

Imagine the antics John Fury would get up to, what Team Fury’s Brady Bunch of brothers and pals would accidental to AJ and his boardroom brotherhood.

The superb aged stories volition beryllium dragged up.

The 2010 sparring league astatine Finchley wherever rising pro Fury offered his Rolex ticker to immoderate antheral who could level him and an uppercut from the reformed bad-boy bricklayer astir clocked him.

The combat was astir made doubly but collapsed implicit wealth and ego.

The bizarre clip they bumped into each different successful Marbella and - contempt each his tirades and taunting - Fury was polite to his verbals victim.

Us hacks volition decidedly resistance up the hilarious times Fury would video telephone Joshua wholly unannounced and upwind him up.

Carl Froch volition backmost Fury and accidental Joshua is useless, John Fury volition connection Froch a fight.

Wladimir Klitschko volition onshore backmost connected the country and enactment Joshua.

It would beryllium magnificent, hilarious, historic, slapstick, tense, acheronian and drenched successful Saudi slush funds.

And each man, woman, kid and canine and duck volition privation to beryllium determination - the trendies who reckons Oasis were ne'er that bully - mightiness unreal they don’t care.

But the PPV income and the summons gross and the sponsorship deals and the broadcast offers volition not.

Joshua versus Fury successful the Spring of 2025 volition kickstart the filthiest richest combat of the modern epoch - AJ conscionable has to past Dynamite Dan to airy the fuse.