Eddie Hearn has accused Tyson Fury and his team of making “zero attempt” to salvage the fight with Anthony Joshua.
Fury and Joshua had been scheduled for a bout in Saudi Arabia on August 14 before a judge ruled in the wake of an arbitration hearing that Fury needed to fight Deontay Wilder first.
It had initially been expected that a multi-million payout would be used to make Wilder step aside, but the American will now meet Fury for a third time on July 24.
And Hearn told IFL TV: “Team Fury made absolutely zero attempt to try and save the Anthony Joshua fight. Zero attempt.
“To call up and say ‘I can’t believe it, it’s preposterous and we’re just going to go ahead with the Wilder fight, so cheers mate, thanks for everything and we’ll catch up soon’.
“If this was me in that case, I would have done absolutely everything I could to save this fight, they didn’t try one thing.
“AJ feels that Fury never wanted to fight him and that Fury was using his name for clout.
“I was told that arbitration would not get in the way of this fight. The whole thing stinks.”
