Eddie Hearn reveals Joshua’s next four fights

Eddie Hearn admits Anthony Joshua is facing a “logjam” of mandatories and may need to vacate a belt before he ever gets a fight against Deontay Wilder. “We don’t want to vacate one of the titles because we want the undisputed fight,” Hearn told iFL TV in an exhaustive interview. “I mean, don’t get me wrong, if a title was vacated, we’d still fight Wilder – but it wouldn’t be the undisputed fight. That’s the golden chalice. So that’s why we want it to happen in November, December.” Asked what mandatories Joshua is facing, Hearn continued: “WBO with [Oleksandr] Usyk, IBF with [Kubrat] Pulev is after the WBO mandatory [so next year], and then there would be a WBA mandatory, which is not set yet. So he [Joshua] is going to have a logjam of mandatories. So after Miller, he’s either going to fight Wilder or another fight or, more likely, Usyk. “If he fights the undisputed fight then he’s got to fight Usyk after. Then he’s got to fight Pulev as another mandatory after that. And then he’s got to fight the WBA one. So that’s when you get into the realms of, are we vacating a belt here? [Wladimir] Klitschko never vacated a belt, but he got criticised because of the mandatories that were put in front of him – was it Tony Thompson he fought twice?”

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