Anthony Joshua Says Dana White Cannot Promote Fury Fight
Anthony Joshua drew a hard line on who can sell his December date with Tyson Fury. He said Dana White is not the man to promote it.
Asked what he thinks of Dana, Joshua kept the personal side separate from the business side. He was holding a book on camera and answering questions while a Boxing Scene split-screen showed Dana smiling on the other half of the frame.
“I think he’s a good person,” Joshua said. “I don’t know him personally, but I think he’s a good person.”
Then he made the cut that matters for Cardiff.
“But obviously, when it comes to business, that’s a different conversation,” Joshua said. “But I don’t think anyone of them are involved in this event.”
Pressed on whether Dana White can promote the fight, Joshua did not leave room.
“In no way he can promote the fight,” he said. The follow-up landed the same way: “100% no.”
That answer sits on top of a week of public fighting over the same point. The Netflix announcement listed Dana White and Turki Alalshikh’s The Ring as collaborators for Fury vs. Joshua on December 11 at Principality Stadium in Cardiff. Eddie Hearn has said Joshua’s contract keeps Dana and Zuffa out of the promotion. White has said there is no confusion and that he is involved. He did not attend Wednesday’s London launch.
Joshua is not pretending those two stories can live together. He framed Dana as someone he can respect as a person and still shut out of this show. That is the same stance Hearn has taken since the Netflix release named White next to Alalshikh.
The fight itself is still listed for December 11 and still listed as a global Netflix stream. Fury is 36-2-1 with 25 knockouts. Joshua is 30-4 with 27 knockouts. Both have already headlined Netflix boxing, Joshua against Jake Paul and Fury against Arslanbek Makhmudov. The personal respect Joshua offered Dana White does not change the contract fight sitting behind those records.
Joshua also answered a testing question in the same clip. After the promoter talk, he was asked if he is happy with the VADA situation now.
“Yeah, definitely,” Joshua said.
That matters because testing has been part of the pre-fight noise, not just the promoter dispute. Joshua has pushed for both men to be in the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association pool. Fury’s side has said VADA would be contacted once the fight was fully locked. Joshua’s on-camera answer treated that piece as settled from his side.
The larger issue is still Dana White’s name on the show. Hearn has said Dana cannot promote the fight. Dana has called the pushback an ego problem coming from the U.K. and has kept repeating that the bout is a done deal. Joshua just put his own voice on Hearn’s side of that argument without turning it into a personal attack.
He did not call Dana White a villain. He called him a good person he does not know. Then he said business is different, that Dana is not involved in this event, and that there is no way Dana can promote the fight.
That is the line that will travel from this clip. The heavyweight date is still December 11 in Cardiff. The stream is still Netflix. The argument over who gets to stand in front of it is now coming from the fighter, not only from his promoter.
Joshua also told talkSPORT that his loyalty is with Hearn and that he would help pull the plug if Hearn wanted the fight canceled over Dana White’s role. That comment sits next to the Boxing Scene clip rather than inside it. Together they show how tightly Joshua is tying this event to Matchroom’s reading of the contract.
Dana White has already said he will keep talking the fight up whether Hearn likes it or not. Joshua just said that talk does not make Dana the promoter. The next few weeks will show whether Cardiff can hold both positions until fight night, or whether the business conversation Joshua separated from the personal one becomes the thing that decides if December 11 happens at all.
