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Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua will finally meet in an all-British heavyweight fight at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on Friday, December 11, with Netflix streaming the event worldwide. The date is locked in, but the precise ringwalk time and full undercard are still to be announced.

After years of stalled talks, social-media callouts and contracts that never led to a bell, Fury and Joshua now have a venue and date for the fight British boxing has spent much of the past decade chasing. The pair will headline Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on December 11 in a promotion involving Turki Alalshikh’s The Ring and Dana White’s Zuffa Boxing, with Netflix carrying the card globally at no extra cost to subscribers.

Alalshikh confirmed the match with the line: “Years in the making. One night to settle it.” He said the two former heavyweight champions would finally meet after a fight that had proved difficult to arrange for roughly 15 years. The build-up begins quickly, as Fury and Joshua are scheduled to appear together at a London press conference at British Airways Arc on Wednesday, September 30.

Tyson Fury And Anthony Joshua Lock In Long-Awaited Heavyweight Showdown

Joshua, 36, has a 30-4 professional record with 27 knockouts. Fury, 38, enters at 36-2-1, with 25 stoppage wins. Dana White pointed to their combined tally of 66 wins and 52 knockouts in announcing his involvement, although their careers have followed different paths in recent years.

The match has been discussed in some form since both men became leading figures in the heavyweight division. In 2020, their camps agreed the basis for a two-fight arrangement. The following year, an undisputed contest appeared close before Deontay Wilder won arbitration that required Fury to fight him for a third time.

A later effort in 2022, when Joshua accepted a 60-40 split to challenge Fury, did not make it to fight night either. This year’s negotiations again became complicated by the location. Wembley Stadium and Madison Square Garden were considered, while Fury publicly suggested he could pursue a third bout with Oleksandr Usyk.

Joshua’s side maintained that the event should remain in Britain, and Cardiff emerged as the solution after extended talks. Fury and Joshua have both lost twice to Usyk, but each has returned to winning ways in 2026. Joshua was dropped twice in the opening round by Kristian Prenga in July before stopping him in the second. Fury returned from retirement and a year away from the sport by outpointing Aslanbek Makhmudov at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in April, then stopped Mariusz Wach in a non-televised bout in Thailand in July.

The Principality Stadium gives the fight a UK setting with a venue used to large-scale boxing. Joshua previously boxed there against Carlos Takam in 2017 and Joseph Parker in 2018. The city also hosted the old National Stadium, where Lennox Lewis beat Frank Bruno in their 1993 British heavyweight title fight.

Cardiff has another advantage with its retractable roof. That removes any weather concern in December and has helped make a late start more workable. The 73,931-capacity stadium previously hosted Joe Calzaghe’s 2007 win over Mikkel Kessler, which began at 01:00 GMT to fit the United States television schedule. That schedule remains a live issue.

Organisers are expected to stage the main event in the early hours of Saturday, December 12, for US viewers, with reports pointing to a ringwalk around 01:00 or 02:00 GMT rather than a 03:00 start. The stadium’s current licence permits boxing until 01:00 with the roof closed, so any later finish may require a licence variation from Cardiff Council.

The September 30 press conference will be the first public face-off of the final promotion and should bring clarity on the ringwalk, ticket plans, undercard and the roles of the competing promotional teams. The initial announcement did not include Frank Warren or Eddie Hearn, Fury and Joshua’s long-time promoters, even though Hearn has said Joshua’s insistence on a British venue helped get the deal finished.