Fury and Joshua appear at Cardiff fight press conference

Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua appeared together at a London press conference on September 30, promoting their scheduled heavyweight fight on December 11 at Principality Stadium in Cardiff. The event proceeded after earlier uncertainty over whether the press conference and bout would go ahead, but some arrangements remain unsettled and the scheduled fight has not yet taken place. The two British fighters faced off at Olympia London and discussed a 2010 sparring session. Joshua said Fury left that session with a black eye; Fury brushed off the claim, according to an account of their exchange. They had previously offered differing recollections of the sparring, and neither fighter was reported to have been knocked down. The fight was announced for Cardiff after discussions over staging it in the United States, including at Madison Square Garden in New York. Eddie Hearn, Joshua’s promoter, said Joshua gave up substantial millions to secure a UK venue. That account of the negotiations came from Hearn; the supplied reporting did not establish the financial terms independently. The promotion’s structure remains disputed.