Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua will finally meet at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff on Friday 11 December, live on Netflix. Before you look at the Fury vs Joshua odds, here is how a fight first called for in 2017 took almost a decade to get to the ring.

Where it started

The pair first shared a ring in June 2010, sparring three rounds at Finchley Amateur Boxing Club in north London. Fury was 21 and Joshua was 20.

By the end of 2015 both had moved on. Joshua had won Olympic gold at London 2012, and Fury had outpointed Wladimir Klitschko in November 2015 to win three world titles. He was stripped of the IBF belt the following month, and Joshua took that title from Charles Martin in April 2016. Fury gave up his remaining belts in October 2016.

The first call-out

In May 2017, Joshua stopped Klitschko in round 11 at Wembley and called out Fury. Fury replied: “Challenge accepted.”

It went no further. Fury was given a backdated two-year ban in December 2017, and Joshua was stopped by Andy Ruiz Jr in seven rounds in June 2019 before winning his belts back in Saudi Arabia that December.

The deal that nearly happened

After Fury stopped Deontay Wilder in February 2020, a two-fight deal was agreed in principle. “We have agreed the basics of the deal,” said Eddie Hearn in June 2020, with the first fight reportedly worth £200 million.

In May 2021, a US arbitrator ruled that Wilder was owed a third fight with Fury, and the plan collapsed. “We were a couple of weeks away,” Joshua later said. Fury knocked out Wilder in round 11 that October, while Joshua lost his titles to Oleksandr Usyk.

The 2022 collapse

Fury announced his retirement after beating Dillian Whyte in April 2022, then called Joshua out again after Joshua lost his rematch with Usyk that August. Joshua accepted a 60-40 purse split in Fury’s favour in September, and Hearn named Cardiff on 17 December as a possible date. Within weeks Fury called it off: “It’s officially over for Joshua.”

Setbacks on both sides

Fury lost twice to Usyk in 2024, in May and December. In September 2024, Daniel Dubois knocked Joshua down four times and stopped him in round five at Wembley, ending plans for the winner to face Fury.

Joshua returned in December 2025 and knocked out Jake Paul in round six in Miami. Later that month he was injured in a car crash in Nigeria that killed two close friends.

Fury came out of retirement in March 2026 and beat Arslanbek Makhmudov on points at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in April, calling out Joshua afterwards. On consecutive nights in July, Fury stopped Mariusz Wach in Thailand and Joshua got up from two knockdowns to knock out Kristian Prenga in round two in Jeddah.

Cardiff, finally

Fury goes into the fight with a record of 36-2-1 (25 KOs), with both defeats coming against Usyk. Joshua is 30-4 (27 KOs). The winner takes the WBA “super” heavyweight title, according to The Ring. The Principality Stadium has a capacity of 73,931, and the main event is expected to start after midnight local time.

Both men are in their late thirties, and both have been beaten since the last serious attempt to make this fight. The full range of boxing betting markets covers the method and round of victory, as well as the outright result.