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Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury… WHAT A MESS! | Is Wembley NEXT?

Ade Oladipo

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What is going on with Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury? Madison Square Garden now appears to be off the table for the long-awaited heavyweight showdown, with attention potentially turning back to Wembley Stadium. Ade Oladipo reacts to the latest Fury vs AJ developments and asks why one of the biggest fights in British boxing is proving so difficult to finalise. If Wembley is now the plan, when could the fight actually happen? Is Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua finally heading back to the UK, or are boxing fans in for another long wait? Join Ade for the latest Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury news, Fury vs AJ updates, heavyweight boxing analysis and fight discussion. This episode is sponsored by Oxford Natural — Optimum Day & Night, a science-backed weight management supplement designed to support fat loss, boost daily energy, reduce cravings, and improve sleep and recovery.  👉🏿Check it out here: https://oxford-natural.com/ade Use code ADE for up to 70% off your first order. 📩 Join Ade’s mailing list for exclusive updates: https://subscribepage.io/adeoladipo-signup 📺 Watch the full episode on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@AdeOladipo1 🐦 Follow Ade on X: https://x.com/ade_oladipo1 📸 Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ade.oladipo/ 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ade_oladipo 📘 Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/Itsadeoladipo/ ✉️ Email: [email protected] ⚽️ Check out my football channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ADEOLADIPOTALKSFOOTBALL Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury… WHAT A MESS! | Is Wembley NEXT?

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Ashwagandha. Which helps my body deal with the stress everyday life frozen. Use code ade from the 70% off your first order. And be the best version of you. Scan the QR code now. Morning Beeps, good morning everyone. As everyone doing, hopefully you guys are all doing well. Don't forget if you're new to the channel, like share, subscribe. We have quite a few big subjects to talk about. We do. Actually wrote them down so I don't forget. What order are we going to do these in? But we're going to get them all done. Fury AJ. What a mess. What a mess. Andy Ruiz, a bit of an upset. Some will say it wasn't an upset, but it wasn't upset. Andy Ruiz was a favorite to win that fight. Katie Taylor. Incredible. As you guys know, I was there. I loved every second of that event. It wasn't really because of the boxing. It was just because it was packed. A stadium fights are incredible. And the Irish are the best. Crawford Boots. I mean, that was fantastic. That little interaction. I don't know how long it was. I've only seen, I guess the highlights of it. But that little interaction was good.

And if you're Crawford, I mean, is that enough for you to say, OK, let's lace him up again. Hopefully it is Connor Ryan. I should have said Ryan Conor, that's the right way to say it, right? I do go to Vegas tomorrow for this fight. Remember, is live on the zone in UK and Ireland and other European territories. So the zone of flying me out, Barry Jones, Carl Frampton. We're going to be out there. We're doing some stuff with Tiffany Lopez. So looking forward to that. That's a big fight. That's a big fight. So look quite a lot to go through. But the right place to start. There's only one place to start. And that was the green chair live yesterday. That's to you guys. Thank you so much for turning up. We packed that place out. I didn't expect us to. I got nervous about it. Obviously, we moved the date from the temp to the six. I don't know. A lot of people couldn't make it. A lot of people asked for their money back. And I get it. I get it. So I was a bit nervous.

There was a point. A couple of weeks back was like, you know, let's just cancel the event. But then I thought, you know what? Let's do it. Let's push through. We've got some really good guests. Anthony Yard, Denzel Bentley. I think Denzel Bentley kind of announced his fight against Aaron McKenna on the stage. Anthony Yard spoke about Joshua Boyz. He quite a lot. Don Charles revisited that David Hay moment and told us a few bits that we didn't know about. Derek Chazora in a prison cell. I didn't know that Chazora and Don Charles got arrested at the airport. They were in a prison cell for I think 24, 48 hours. He told us that story. Great to have Spencer Fearin, Tundejai, G-Man. But again, the most important people were you guys. So thank you so much, everyone. It is going to come out for those that weren't there. It is going to come out on the YouTube. I think tomorrow we're going to clip it all up, put up on the YouTube, the whole event about an hour 30 minutes. So, yeah, you guys hopefully will enjoy that as well. And the next one is going to be way more notice number one. And we're not going to wait here. Like this once a year thing just doesn't work for me.

We could do this every two or three months. I genuinely believe in we could do it not just in London, but all over the place. So, yeah, look again, thank you so much everyone that turned up. All right, let's talk some boxing. And I think the only place to start is what was on top of the list. And that's Tyson Fury and Tini Joshua. What I miss. Honestly, what I miss. I was thinking, is this like, this has now become more difficult to make than many packier Floyd Mayweather. It feels like that. And maybe it is that. I'm actually starting to believe it is that. And you think of how gigantic that fight was. You think of the two names Floyd Mayweather. The biggest fighter financially we've ever seen. Like just Floyd, the ego on Floyd and many packier who is a legend, like legend, eight weight world champion. This fight here is harder to make than that. Think about that for a second. Harder to make than many packier Floyd Mayweather.

Floyd was pound for pound number one in the world at the time. Many packier was a champion in his own right. Came into this fight as an eight weight world champion. Can you imagine the egos on these two? Can you imagine they made the fight? We can't make Fury AJ. Fury's going mental on his social media. Fury just had enough. He's had enough. He's had enough. Someone's like, he's kept quiet. Then he's like, no fuck, I'm tired. I just want to say. And whether or not we agree with him, he just sounds frustrated now as well. He does. And he's almost trying to win a popularity, though. It seems with the public by saying, it's not my fault. I'm ready to fight. I'll fight him everywhere. The bodybuilder, the dozer. Whether or not that's working. I don't know. AJ hasn't said anything. AJ won't say anything. I know AJ quite well. Eddie's obviously almost the AJ spokesperson. Eddie said. Well, he needs to say it got to a point.

Maybe about a month ago, two months ago, where as much as I didn't want to see this fight in New York, it's like just fucking fighting New York. It got to that point. If that's how we're going to make the fight happen, just make it happen. If the fight has to go to Saudi, just fight. Ultimately, I just want to see them fight. Like when Fury Usick fought in Saudi, didn't really care it was in Saudi. I know it's different because it's Usick, right? But it's like just fight. And now it's got to that point with these two. Well, I'm like, anywhere now, anywhere. Will it happen at Wembley? I don't know. The mayor's got involved, doesn't he? I think Eddie, I'm reached out to the mayor because there was this issue about there's the curfew of Wembley. And to almost appease the American audience, what American audience? But to appease the American audience, it needs to go late. Wembley has a curfew. I think the London mayor has now said we can push that curfew. So we now could go Wembley. Problem is with Wembley is the weather. As much as people say, and it doesn't matter if it rains, what kind of does it takes away from it?

You want a nice night, don't you? You want it to be a good, even the box in, you want it to be in the summer. So that's now a bit of a problem. I don't know what happens. I'm sorry, if you've come here for answers, I wish I could give you some. I don't know what's going on. I believe they're supposed to be a presser today. I believe if all things got signed off, they're supposed to be a presser today to announce it. Obviously that isn't going to happen. Obviously these guys are not fighting November 20th. Scrap that day. If you guys have booked hotels and booked flights or put hold on flights, cancel them. These guys aren't fighting November 20th. They're certainly not fighting MSG. I don't know what goes on now. I don't know what he's doing, but he's like, Alexander Usick, let's fight. Let's fight. Obviously he's trying to say he's moved on. He hasn't moved on. But now he's calling out Usick. And if we're frank, get to fight. No, what's the sea? We've seen it twice. Usick's won twice.

You don't really get to do a third if you've not won any of the first two. I'm fed up with it. I don't know about you guys, but I'm almost, I've almost got to the point where it's, I kind of don't care anymore. And look, when it rolls round, I probably contradict myself. I'm like, oh, I've got to hear we go. But right now, as I record this, I don't really care. We've seen some really good heavyweight fights in recent times. Obviously, Wally Dubois are going to do it again. Atalma Hurgvich was a good fight. I almost want to move on from it. If AJ wants to continue fighting, and it not be furry, okay, continue fighting. If Furi wants to continue fighting, not be AJ, continue fighting. But yeah, it's, it's very, it's just very boring now. Again, we were able to make Manipackiel, Floyd Maywever. And yes, it took a few years, but I get, I guarantee you, but a time they agreed and a contract was signed, I bet the fight just happened. I can't remember it. My timeline doesn't quite work out right now.

But it almost feels like AJ and Furi have agreed to fight twice now. And for some reason, twice barriers have been put in front of them, getting in the ring of fighting. And I think the British public are losing patience with it. I think there's, there's, there's that happening now. But we'll see, we'll see. I didn't really want to talk about it. I didn't want this video to be about Furi AJ, but there have been some movements, haven't they? AJ and Eddie stand in firm on Wembley. There seems to be some movements with that. I don't know. The Wembley thing's interesting because it almost feels now like Furi wants to fight in America. It feels like that. I don't know if he, I'm guessing Furi would like to fight a Wembley. I mean, he's just fought at Tottenham. So it's not like he's got a thing about fighting in England. But hopefully we can get something done. What I will say though, is that if they are going to fight, if it's agreed for them to fight at Wembley, say all this gets done.

We go Wembley. That ain't happening until March April. This is the 7th of September. There's a likelihood that both of them have another fight, but both of them so I have another fight. And the risk of both of them getting chained or beat is high. It's super high unless they fight and nobody. Boring, isn't it? Boring. Sorry, I don't want to waste 10 minutes of this video talking about this. So we shall move on very quickly. Let's talk about Katie Taylor in Dublin. What an event. What a spectacle. Honestly, what a spectacle. It wasn't, well, I think necessarily care about the fights. For this event, like Flora Pilly was going to cause Katie no problem. She did for a few seconds of a couple of rounds. So I never sort of went to this thinking this is going to be an epic fight. I knew it was going to be an epic night. I knew it wasn't Chantelle Cameron. It wasn't Amanda Serone. Obviously it wasn't a sandy ryan type. We even had Delphim Pesun time. I looked at Flora Pilly and she said, okay, she's big, she's strong, she can't punch,

and she's not a very good boxer. Katie Taylor was always going to just have her way with her. But it was so nice to see Katie Taylor get the send off the farewell. Again, 84,000 packed into croak park to see a female boxer. You know, crazy, it's fight someone where the audience didn't know who her opponent was and they didn't care. That's madness. You think about that. We don't care who you're fighting. We're still going to come. If AJ and Fury are going to pack a stadium, you almost need to know who they're fighting. There needs to be some interest. And okay, who is that guy? Like none. She's just sensational. And she will vanish as well. I don't expect Katie Taylor. But at some, everyone laughs at Tony Belly when he says, I just want to leave and sort of disappear with my wife and kids. And then tomorrow he's out. I don't know, selling some sort of golf to them.

Okay, Katie won't do that. Katie will vanish and she will be gone forever. And there's something, there's a beauty in that, isn't it? Like someone that really could, like, almost just become like the face of so many products and sponsors. And it's just who she is and just everyone loves Katie. But she just shuns all of it. Doesn't want to do any of that. Just wants to go back to America with her family and just live life. And I kind of respect that. So it was a good night for Katie. I'm not necessarily a West life fan, but the crowd seem to enjoy it. The Thomas Cartie Dave Allen thing was strange. I have no idea what happened there. You know, you know, some who said it. Spence Oliver yesterday said that there's an angle we don't see. You know when Dave Allen, and Dave Allen does kind of hit him behind the head as well, by the way. This Cartie kind of blank out a little bit. Does he black out with that punch?

Does that make any sense? Because the way in which he goes through the ropes is if you've got your whereabouts with you, you don't go through the ropes like that. It almost feels like he might have just got here, almost collapsed and then went through the ropes. And then obviously hit the ground and bounce back up. Does that make any sense? Because that's the angle we don't really see. There isn't that angle where you can see his face from the angle of these are the ropes in going through the ropes. Make any sense or imagine just trying to show. I don't know, but that was such an anti climax, wasn't it? Because I thought all this could be a good little five, six round fight. You expect Dave Allen to win, but I thought this could get going and then that happened. Alright, next on this list very quickly. Andy Ruiz, wow. He couldn't go in the tool. It's like Niba. And I was ringside for Niba versus Kabyel and Niba caused Kabyel a couple of problems. So it's never going to be easy. It was always a tough comeback fight for someone that hasn't fought for a couple of years. A couple of years, right? Crazy.

Someone that's fought, he's not even a part time boxer. He said like, what's Andy Ruiz? I remember reading this up before. It was not like since the first AJ fight, I think he said like four fights or something in five years. Worst than that maybe. Okay, the first AJ fight was 2019. 2019 June, since Danny said one, two, three, four, and that was his fifth fight. That was his fifth fight. So going into that fight, you had four fights in seven years. I've got that right. That can't be right. It is right. Four fights in seven years. Who do you think you are? You think you can just turn up as good as Andrew Ruiz was. Just gonna say is, I still think there could be something there. Like Niba's no bum. You can't do something four times in seven years and think you've still got it. I'm sorry, you can't.

You can't. Especially if you've not lived that life in between fights. We've seen him balloon up in weight. Does he live the life? I don't know. Four times in seven years. I guess if you were a better man and you know your shit, you would have probably put the house in Niba. Niba just controlled it. When he decided to let the one two go, we saw what happened. By the way, that referee should be jailed. That referee. I mean, talk about give Andy a chance. What are you doing? First of all, first of all, as Niba is going in for the kill, he kind of tries to get in the way. He's always going to stop the fight. Then Ruiz goes down. You kind of have stopped the fight by the way. The referee looked like he was going to stop the fucking fight. And then he gives him the slowest count in the world. Then he basically helps him up. And then he basically says, Okay, are you okay, Andy? Are you okay, Andy? No, no, no, I'm, Andy, I'm talking to Andy. I'm okay. Okay, I'm going to give you one. Dude, what we doing? This is like, you're giving him the longest amount of time to recover. I've ever seen.

What we doing? Fight, you've been over in the 7. Niba should have got a knockout. Would have looked good on the resume as well. Knocked out Andy Ruiz as opposed to points. And the judges were trying to fucking give Andy that fight as well, weren't they? Crazy. Honestly, crazy. Andy, after was basically saying he's not going to retire, although Tim, if you're Bradley, by the way, I love that. Tim, if you're Bradley Crawford, jump, or I think that's fantastic. But Tim, if you're Bradley, was almost alluding to the fact that he should retire, hang him up. You would give him another one. Obviously, Matrim have signed him. Matrim will give him another one. Maybe at that level or just below. But if it's another one, it's got to be soon. One thing Andy needs is activity. So, if he can get out, maybe before the end of the year, early next year, just something. Have you still got it? Go take a little bit of a time out and then get straight back to the gym. Straight back in to see what you've got. Yeah, I like Andy, but... Crawford boots. It's Crawford going to...

Will this tempt Crawford back? Like, someone coming up to him, saying they will basically beat him and dog him, and saying it to his face. I mean, no, Crawford don't like that shit. Will Crawford versus boots happen? Is there enough money in this fight for it to happen? I mean, is there still a re-accessive turkey element to it where you're kind of overpaying for the fight? I wouldn't mind seeing it happen. Boots coming off that good win against Zander. If Crawford hurt boots or landed on boots the way Zander did, this fight doesn't go past a certain amount around Crawford. It would get to him. But boots as young up, boots has been calling that Crawford for a minute. If you're Crawford, you can understand why you wouldn't take that fight at the time. You've got Canelo on the horizon. Why would you risk your bag? But yeah, look, there's been no real reason for Crawford to return. Canelo rematch the first fight wasn't super competitive. Why do it again? 50 million would make you do it again. But boots is that reason.

Boots is young. He would come up to 161, 168, whatever. I like it. I kind of like it. I don't think it's going to happen, but if Crawford does come back, it's clear for something like that. And Connor Ryan, as we wrap, it's been... It's going to be very interesting for me. I think I do a sit down with Connor. Connor on Wednesday. We are... So we'll be two days away from him weighing in. I will see if he's struggling with weight. I will see it. I will hear it in the voice. I will see it. And then I can almost make my assumptions. If he looks good on the weight, and I have spoken to his cousin Justin, and he seems to suggest so, then we might have a fight. If he's struggling with the weight, then he'll be exposed. He'll be exposed. 147's a horrific cut for someone that's not done it for four years. Horrific. Even if you lived a life. Like, Connor would have had to, straight after the Regis Progrey fight, just been dialed in from then. So it's not a drastic cut. But look, you have to make Ryan a favourite,

Ryan look good against Barrios. Ryan looks really healthy at 147. He's as tall as Connor as well. He just looks like a healthy kid at that weight. Where his Connor doesn't. But if Connor does, then we might have a fun fight for a few rounds. But if he doesn't, he could get washed. He could get. We'll see. Guys, girls, be yourself. Ashwagandha, which helps my body deal with stress every day life frozen me. Use code Add-A from the 70% of your first order and be the best version of you. Scan the QR code now.

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