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Derek Chisora is open to fighting Anthony Joshua

Derek Chisora is open to fighting Anthony Joshua

Derek Chisora would be open to fighting Anthony Joshua.

The 41-year-old boxer is part of AJ’s management company MGT and has sparred with the former two-time unified WBO, IBF, and WBA heavyweight champion, 35, over the years, though Chisora has now said he would get in the ring with his "brother" Joshua because they are “in the entertainment business”.

Speaking with talkSPORT, Chisora said: “We are in the business of fighting, we are in the business of entertainment. If I have to fight Daniel [Dubois], then I will fight Daniel.

“If I have to fight my brother AJ, then I will fight AJ. Do you understand? We are in the entertainment business.”

He added: “I am a warrior, I’ll fight anybody.”

Chisora previously said he wouldn’t battle AJ, though later placed the boxer on his potential hit-list after beating Otto Wallin in February 2025.

Following his victory over ‘All In’, 34, Chisora said: “We are going to choose number 50 right here, right now so bear with me we are going to do something very special.

“People, you decide. Do I get Triple D? Do I get my brother AJ? Or do I get Oleksandr Usyk?

“You tell me. I think I have earned number 50 to be a big blockbuster, please.”

After rattling off his potential next opponents, Joshua received the biggest pop from the crowd.

Meanwhile, Joshua hasn’t appeared in the ring since his loss to Dubois, 27, in September 2024, and his promoter Eddie Hearn recently hinted the fighter could retire as soon as next year following a possible bout with Tyson Fury.

He told Ariel Helwani: “AJ will have been out of the ring just over a year by the time he steps back into the ring.

“He'll be coming off surgery. I don't think Tyson Fury will be ready to fight around that time.

“I imagine it will be someone who gears him up for a really big fight in 2026.

“2026 will probably be his last year in the sport. Thinking about it [retirement], it's probably three fights away.

“If I'm advising AJ, ‘We're back this year, we have two Tyson Fury fights, and what else is there to do?’
Maybe fight Daniel Dubois. Once AJ fights Tyson Fury, he's kind of done it all. Something feels right about coming back this year, fighting Tyson Fury twice next year, and then sailing off into the sunset.”

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