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title: "Arum growing doubtful over Joshua-Fury bout"
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author: "Ryan Elliott"
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published: "2021-04-29T07:41:48Z"
modified: "2021-04-29T07:59:39Z"
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# Arum growing doubtful over Joshua-Fury bout

Promoter Bob Arum has cast doubt on the possibility of Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury’s long-trumpeted undisputed heavyweight bout happening next.

Arum, who flew to California with WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury for an arbitration session regarding a third bout with Deontay Wilder, believes that a Fury-Wilder trilogy could soon become their focus.

“A switch to negotiation \[with Wilder’s team\] is possible,” Arum told *Ring Magazine*. “If I had to bet whether the Tyson Fury versus Anthony Joshua fight would happen or not, I would say no.  As far as I can see this whole thing with Eddie and \[Joshua-Fury in Saudi Arabia\] is just a mirage.

“Eddie is desperate, he has one more fight with AJ and he wants it to be the fight against Fury. But if a fight against Tyson is delayed, to the winter, then AJ has to fight Oleksandr Usyk, and that’s not that big a fight. Eddie is a desperado here.”