After years of waiting, Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury are finally set to meet in the ring, but fans are left unappeased due to plans for where and when the event could take place, and now Carl Froch has had his say amid rumours that the clash could happen in the early hours of the morning in the UK.
Whilst Joshua-Fury has been planned throughout 2026, recent developments suggested that the show could take place stateside, much to the frustration of British fight fans, who understandably feel as though the arguable biggest fight in the long history of British boxing should happen in the UK.
Turki Alalshikh has since revealed that he wants to stage the Joshua vs Fury event at Wembley Stadium, but only if he is granted permission for ring walks to take place at 2am, in order to suit an American television audience.
Speaking on his YouTube channel, Froch on Fighting, ‘The Cobra’ made his feelings clear about the potential early morning fight.
“I don’t know why they are worried too much about the American audience. It is a British fight, with two British fighters, everyone I excited about these two coming together and getting it on, it needs to be on British soil at Wembley Stadium or Tottenham Hotspur’s, wherever, at a reasonable hour – 10 o’clock.
“In the middle of November, it is going to be freezing cold. We don’t mind being freezing cold at 10/11 o’clock, but not at four in the f***ing morning, it is taking the p**s.
“I feel like Turki Al-Alshikh may be paying a lip service or putting together a bit of an excuse by saying ‘I am waiting to see what Transport For London or the police in London are saying,’. I don’t think that they are going to allow 79,000 fans to leave Wembley Stadium at four in the morning, it is not going to happen.
“If they are going to try and accommodate for American T.V. then it might as well be over in America.”
Before further progression can be made, Joshua and Fury must come through their respective warm-up bouts unscathed, both of which are set to take place in two weeks’ time.
