Joshua has three ‘dream’ fights as Hearn sets out plans for 2023

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Eddie Hearn has revealed three dream fights for Anthony Joshua in 2023. In an ideal world, Hearn would like to see Dillian Whyte, Deontay Wilder, and Tyson Fury all square off against the Watford powerhouse next year.

“If you’re looking at three fights next for which you hope for him to have, maybe you go Dillian Whyte, [Deontay] Wilder, Fury,” Hearn told assembled media on Thursday. “I mean that would be the dream year, but probably one of them would be nice the way everything’s going.”

“I do feel that AJ – Wilder is just a massive global heavyweight fight. Two titans that the fight could end at any moment. I think it’s a tremendous fight.”

Joshua is expected to return to the ring in early 2023. After sustaining back-to-back losses to Oleksandr Usyk, AJ is looking to build his confidence back up again with ‘two quick fights’ against ‘credible top 15 opponents’.

Whyte is believed to be the ‘frontrunner’ according to Hearn with Otto Wallin’s name also being thrown into the mix. Chris Arreola recently disclosed that approaches have been made to acquire his services while Gerald Washington’s coach Malik Scott claims that he has received a ‘couple of calls’ regarding a fight against El Gallo Negro.

“For what I’m hearing AJ’s looking for a kind of a step-down fight. He don’t want that kind of work right now but if he wants that then I have Gerald Washington and Gerald Washington is ready to fight almost anybody,” Scott told ESNEWS.

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“I got a couple calls about it yesterday, I didn’t even tell Gerald about it. If AJ is really really interested in that then Gerald is ten times better than he was last time they saw him fight so it would be a good element of surprise for them.

“Plus, I think Gerald has the ability to beat almost any heavyweight in the world out there, it’s just about staying alert all the way through the fight. I have got calls from camps telling me that ‘yo, Gerald is out here doing very good’ and I watched him box Deontay for the last three weeks, he gave us a great look. He really gave us a great look when he came back from the Usyk camp – like real real good.”

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