Tony Bellew is still without an official opponent but promoter Eddie Hearn is fairly confident that an opponent will be announced soon.
The promoter revealed who he would like to see Bellew fight next.
“We’re quite close with next fight as well. He’ll be boxing in the UK. A couple of guys still in the mix. I like the Ward fight for Tony. I know it’s a tough fight but he has a big size advantage over Ward,” told Hearn.
He then went into detail about why Ward would be a good challenge for Bellew.
“Ward’s pound-for-pound number one. I think taking Mayweather out, he’s [Ward] the hardest fighter to beat in world boxing. Is he the most entertaining? Not in a million years. Is he the best? How do you define the best? Do you define it as in hard to beat? I rate Lomachenko so highly but I think Ward is just so hard to beat,” said the promoter.
But even though Ward is an interesting fight, the people want to see the rematch.
“He’s gone super middle and up to light heavy and beat the very best up there. He could probably go to cruiser and he probably will. But I said to Tony and David [Haye], the fight that people wanna see is the rematch,” said Hearn.
The promoter also gave another piece of big news about Anthony Joshua’s next fight.
“We’re finalising the Kubrat Pulev fight in the next few days. There will be an announcement next week on Anthony Joshua’s next fight. The future for Anthony is to deal with his mandatories,” he revealed.
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