PROMOTER Frank Warren has confirmed that Joseph Parker and Joe Joyce have agreed to a fight this summer.
No date has been confirmed for the bout between the heavyweight challengers, but the pair will go head to head.
Parker is on a run of six straight wins after losing twice to Anthony Joshua and Dillian Whyte.
Meanwhile, this will be Joyce's biggest fight to date after having gone 13 unbeaten in his professional career to date. He most recently defeated Carlos Takam back in July last year.
Ahead of tonight's heavyweight showdown between Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte, Fury insisted he is not “untouchable”.
The current WBC heavyweight champion weighed 18st 12lbs 13oz on the eve of his WBC heavyweight title defence, nearly a stone lighter than six months ago when he knocked out Deontay Wilder in a thrilling third fight between the pair.
Speculation has persisted throughout the build-up that Fury may look to keep the fight at a distance and frustrate Whyte, but the self-styled ‘Gypsy King’ was adamant his defence is not impregnable.
While he has beaten everyone he has faced, Fury was downed four times in his trilogy against Wilder and also had to rise from the canvas to beat Neven Pajkic in 2011 and Steve Cunningham two years later.
“I’m not sure about all this outboxing – unless I’m Houdini, I can definitely hit them all, for sure, but I’ve definitely been hit before,” said Fury, who has won 31 and drawn one of his 32 fights.
“I’ve been bounced off the canvas more times than a bouncy ball. I’m not this untouchable boxer everyone thinks I might be. I’m just a normal boxing man who has got lucky 32 times in a row, I think!”
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