{"id":436758,"date":"2023-05-27T01:02:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T05:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436758"},"modified":"2023-06-22T09:11:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T13:11:22","slug":"fury-sends-contract-to-joshua-for-wembley-fight","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/fury-sends-contract-to-joshua-for-wembley-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Fury sends contract to Joshua for Wembley fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s WBC world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury revealed on Friday that a contract had been sent to compatriot Anthony Joshua for a Wembley Stadium showdown in September.<\/p>\n<p>Fury, 34, has not fought since retaining his title with a 10th-round stoppage of fellow Briton Derek Chisora in December.<\/p>\n<p>Fury called off his proposed &#8216;Battle of Britain&#8217; bout with two-time world champion Joshua, 33, last September, saying his countryman had not signed the contract before the deadline.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Fury wants Joshua in September \ud83d\ude33 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jm68AnRUDf\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Jm68AnRUDf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN Ringside (@ESPNRingside) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNRingside\/status\/1662186877686886400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;its a fight that everyone wants to see including myself,&#8221; unbeaten Fury said in an Instagram post on Friday. Fury was supposed to fight Oleksandr Usyk, but the two sided didn&#8217;t come to an agreement over the prize money and the clash fell through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s WBC world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury revealed on Friday that a contract had been sent to compatriot Anthony Joshua for a Wembley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":436759,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17307,18144,17440],"news_category":[20045],"gn_keywords":[18480,18146,18117],"acf":{"announce":"The Gypsy King wants the show in September","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436758"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436758"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}