Tyson Fury wants to fight Anthony Joshua in November - despite the former champion asking for the fight to take place a month later.
Fury called out Joshua via social media yesterday with his British rival later accepting the fight while telling Fury he would be ready in December. Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn has said he is open to negotiating the fight but doubts Fury's intentions are serious.
But Fury's promoter Frank Warren has now said he will send a written offer to his Matchroom counterpart later today for a bout in two months' time. "We’re sending a written offer across today to them," Warren told talkSPORT. "My son George spoke with Eddie Hearn yesterday.
"It’s us who have made the approach to give AJ a great opportunity to get himself back into the top level against the world champion Tyson. He’s willing to make that voluntary defence, so we’ll send the offer across today and then they’ll have to look at it and decide whether they want to grab this with both hands."
Warren insists the fight can be staged in the UK, despite the lure of the cash-rich Middle East, and said he hopes to stage the fight in November. “The terms that we are going to put forward I think are very, very fair," he added. "We’ll put it into writing and then they can make their decision. We’re talking about being very, very fair. Tyson is being extremely fair and if and when these come out, if they want to publicise them, you’ll all be shocked. It’s perfect timing I think for AJ to accept it.
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"For him to get himself back into a position either mandatory or to challenge for a world title is going to take him a lot of time, so he should grab this with both hands in my opinion. But to his credit he has come out saying that he’s up for it. I’m not bad-mouthing them or the other side, all we’re interested in doing is making this fight."
Fury and Joshua were seemingly days away from announcing what would have been an undisputed fight last summer before Fury was instead ordered to fight Deontay Wilder. Since then, Fury has made two defences of his WBC world title while Joshua has lost twice to Oleksandr Usyk.
