Fury v AJ fight to be called off because Hearn wants more cash

Tyson Fury says his long-awaited heavyweight fight with Anthony Joshua now ‘doesn’t look like it’s going to happen’ – in a long, explosive rant at his long-term rival and ‘money-thirsty’ right-hand-man promoter Eddie Hearn.

Joshua and Fury are understood to have signed contracts to fight on November 20 in New York City but Hearn has insisted there is still work to be done on the deal – and the situation has now blown up over the terms.

Fury accuses Hearn of ‘wanting more money’ from Saudi boxing supremo Turki Alalshikh – and funding his Saudi-linked snooker, boxing and darts ventures off the back of the prospective Fury-Joshua fight.

In a post on Instagram today, Fury, 38, said: ‘Quick update: Doesn’t look like they’re going to sign the fight, doesn’t look like it’s going to happen. All because Eddie Hearn and that want more money.

‘They’ve already had that much money off of Turki in the last few years, Eddie and AJ. They’ve had boxing deals, darts deals, snooker deals, they’ve had everything. And yet they’ve had the audacity and cheek of flea-bitten rats to ask for more money from Turki, who’s given you everything combined in the last couple of years.

‘You’re disgusting, money-thirsty pieces of shit. It is what it is, same old cliche a decade later, keep running you little cowards.’