Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury finally SIGN their £200m two-fight contract

Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury have now signed a two-fight deal which will eclipse Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao as the most lucrative bout in the sport’s history. 

The fight that the boxing world has been hoping for will now become a reality, with the all-British showdown now rubber stamped. 

The two world champions agreed terms in principle last year but have now put pen to paper after contracts were finalised.

Anthony Joshua (left) and Tyson Fury (right) have now signed a two-fight blockbuster deal

The first of the two fights is expected to take place in June or July with Saudi Arabia in pole position to secure hosting rights. 

Both Joshua, 31, and Fury, 32, are set to earn £100million each as part of the money-spinning purse.

AJ’s promoter Eddie Hearn revealed the break-through on Monday when he told reporters that ‘the hard bit is now over the line’ giving fans the excuse to now get excited about the fight finally coming to fruition.

‘We’d like to get a site deal confirmed in the next month,’ Hearn told ESPN.

‘We’ve already had approaches from eight or nine sites. The offers have come from multiple countries in the Middle East, from Asia, Eastern Europe and America.’ 

‘The hard part is always getting everybody to put pen to paper but this was a major effort from all parties to get this over the line. 

‘You had rival promoters, rival networks and rival fighters.

‘I actually feel we’ve done the hard part. Speaking for myself, Anthony and his team at 258 management, I know how hard we’ve worked hard these last couple of months and I just feel that this fight is so big it’s not a difficult sell.’

Concerns had grown among boxing fans that the fight would never have the chance to materialise due to mandatory challengers to both stars, meaning the respective schedules of AJ and Fury would never align.

Hearn, however, is now marveling in the fact that he has secured the arrangements for boxing’s ‘biggest’ which he believes will hugely benefit the UK.

Hearn added: ‘This is the biggest fight in boxing and one of the biggest sporting events in the world.

‘It will be a major, major win for a country that wants to showcase itself.’#

In recent weeks Fury – who so spectacularly defeated American Deontay Wilder during their 2018 rematch – had poured doubt over the fight ever happening after revealing he had fallen way out of his previously high level training regime.

Fury recently admitted he was enjoying up to 12 pints of beer a day after stopping his training schedule in light of talks with AJ reaching a standstill.

Just this week the WBC heavyweight champion, who has made no secret of his battle with mental health issues, took to social media to share an image of himself grinning while holding a half-full bottle of the spirit, and another picture of a full glass.

And on Sunday, Fury wrote ‘Whisky on my mind. Sunday blues’ alongside the photos of himself and the alcohol.

Speaking to iFLTV last week, Fury said: ‘I’ve stopped training now, I’m on holiday, I’m doing anywhere between, eight, 10, 12 pints of lager a day at the minute. Not eating though so I’m getting my calories through alcohol.

‘There’s nothing to do, is there? I’ve done training, training, training with no further process. It’s one of those things, at the minute I’m just chilling out, being a man of leisure in lockdown.’

Fury, who has not fought in over year since dethroning Wilder, has previously caused concern with his claims of excessive drinking, having ballooned to 28 stone as he turned to alcohol and drugs amid a battle against depression following his victory over Wladimir Klitschko in 2015.