Anthony Joshua will accept a £ 15 million fee and retire to fight between Tyson Fury and Oleksander Usyk

Anthony Joshua is close to the reception compensation of £ 15 million this would pave the way for Oleksandr Usky to fight Tyson Fury in an undisputed duel for the heavyweight title in the Middle East.

Joshua had to get a rematch with Usky for his three world titles, which he lost last year against the Ukrainian in London.

But the former Olympic champion is now ready to accept a resignation deal after lengthy talks between boxing actors brought hope for a breakthrough over the weekend. The Principality Stadium in Cardiff is also reserved for Fury, who will fight on March 26th.

Fury’s American promoter Bob Arum described it as “chaos” and “clutter”, nothing official from Joshua’s management team – not even the Londoner announced his new training team after visiting several acclaimed American gyms – but his promoter Eddie Hearn last week suggested that boxing fans could “expect the unexpected” in the coming week as the situation is resolved in the spring.

If Joshua accepts the financial deal instead of continuing the rematch, we would almost certainly expect the Londoner to face winner Fury-Usyk.

It was not clear about the next round of heavyweight superfights, as bids for Fury’s WBC defense against Dillian Whyte, a mandatory contestant, have been postponed three times, most recently on January 26th. Arum and Frank Warren, Fury’s promoter in the UK, argue that they are sticking to the 80/20 wallet split set by the WBC after Fury’s victory over Deontay Wilder.

Warren gave the biggest hint that matters could be resolved this week. “It’s a saga, but if we can keep things together, we can transcend something one way or another,” he said.

“Everyone in boxing wants to see an undisputed fight between Tyson and Usyk, I just want to see him as a fan. So this is a fight that we are trying to carry out. “

Arum told the Telegraph Sport on Sunday he could not comment, but if Whyte’s team wants to continue and demand the right to fight Fury and accept the 80/20 wallet split, it should happen on Wednesday night at a postponed date. offer for Fury-Whyte.