Fury vs Joshua "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" — Wembley November on Netflix Confirmed

• Eddie Hearn confirmed the deal with a "Signed, sealed, delivered. AJ v Fury is on" post on Sunday night, with Turki Alalshikh adding "to my friends in Great Britain — it's happening. It's signed" within minutes
• The fight is locked in for November 2026 with Wembley Stadium the strong front-runner and Croke Park reportedly still in the venue conversation. Netflix has the global broadcast rights, mirroring the platform's recent UK boxing push
• Joshua's July 25 Prenga warm-up in Riyadh is now the only thing standing between the two camps and a sold-out British autumn — meaning a single right hand from a 20-KO Albanian could still blow the lot up

The Announcement Britain Stopped Pretending To Care About

Make no mistake, this is the announcement British boxing has been pretending it didn't need for years. Every fan reading this has been burned before. Fury–Joshua has been "imminent", "close", "weeks away" and "done bar the lawyers" so many times since 2020 that the words stopped meaning anything. So when Eddie Hearn typed "Signed, sealed, delivered. AJ v Fury is on" on Sunday night, the first response from anyone with a long memory was a flat "I'll believe it when I see the ring walks". Fair. But the difference this time is that Turki Alalshikh, the man who actually writes the cheques, posted his own confirmation within minutes. "To my friends in Great Britain — it's happening. It's signed." The Saudi power broker doesn't post ambiguities. He doesn't post negotiating positions. When His Excellency confirms a fight, the fight is happening. If you know, you know.

What We Actually Know — And What's Still Up In The Air

Let's not beat around the bush. Here is what is locked in: November 2026, two of British boxing's biggest names, and a Netflix broadcast that will have every household in the UK with the streaming service watching one fight at the same time. That is, on its own, history. What's still being haggled over is the venue. Wembley Stadium is the strong front-runner and the obvious commercial choice — 90,000 seats, the spiritual home of the heavyweight era, and the venue where Joshua announced himself by stopping Wladimir Klitschko in 2017. Croke Park has been mentioned in the briefing but I'd be amazed if it ended up in Dublin. The economics, the political clean-up of the venue paperwork, the sponsor rights — Wembley is the natural fit and the smart money is heavy on it. The other open question is the exact date. "Q4" is what The Ring reported first. November is the Hearn briefing line. A late-November date — think the Saturday before American Thanksgiving — is the slot insiders are quietly pencilling in, because Netflix wants the global Saturday-night audience and the Saudi calendar around Riyadh Season won't crowd it.

Why The Hearn-Warren-Alalshikh Triangle Finally Worked

For years the obstacle has been the same one: two rival promoters, two rival broadcasters, and not enough money on the table to make either of them swallow their egos. Fury is a Frank Warren / Queensberry fighter. Joshua is a Matchroom / Hearn fighter. The two camps have been at each other's throats publicly and privately for the entire decade. What broke the logjam is the same thing that has broken every logjam in boxing since 2023: Saudi money sat on top of a streaming rights war between Netflix and DAZN. Alalshikh effectively bought out the broadcast rights through Riyadh Season, plonked the fight onto Netflix as a global play, and told both promoters their cut was fixed and their broadcast politics no longer mattered. It is exactly how he made Canelo–Crawford happen. It is exactly how he set up Usyk–Verhoeven at the Pyramids. The man does not negotiate the way British boxing has historically negotiated. He just writes the bigger cheque and removes the excuse.

The One Thing That Could Still Blow It Up

Now for the bit that gives you indigestion. Joshua hasn't fought since the Daniel Dubois defeat at Wembley in September 2024 — twenty months out of the ring by the time he laces them up against Kristian Prenga on July 25. Prenga is 20-1 with every win inside the distance. His one defeat came as a kid. He is exactly the kind of "tune-up" that punches a returning superstar in the face for real. One clean right hand from Prenga in Riyadh and we are not having any of these conversations in November. The Saudis know it. Hearn knows it. AJ knows it. That is precisely why the warm-up was placed in Riyadh and not at the O2 — Alalshikh wants total control of the camp, the cards, the messaging, and the post-fight environment. Fury, for what it's worth, has already been through his own fight night against Arslanbek Makhmudov at Tottenham this month and got 12 rounds in the bank. He's safe. Joshua is not.

What This Does To The Rest Of The Heavyweight Division

You have to feel a bit sorry for everyone else in the mix. Usyk is preparing to turn over Rico Verhoeven at the Pyramids on May 23 and the world's reaction will be "lovely, when's Fury–Joshua?" Fabio Wardley and Daniel Dubois meet at Co-op Live on May 9 for the WBO heavyweight strap and they're effectively fighting to be the mandatory waiting in the wings for whoever wins in November. Jarrell Miller just won an eliminator against Lenier Pero and was loud about wanting Wilder next — you can put that on ice for six months. The whole division is now dancing around an autumn date in north-west London. That's how big this fight is. It pulls everyone else's calendar into orbit around it.

My Take: Don't Get Carried Away — Just Yet

I'm going to do something I usually don't, which is sit on a prediction. I'll happily call the fight itself — Fury by late stoppage, body work and head movement against a rusty AJ — but I refuse to celebrate this announcement before the bell goes in November. Too many false dawns. Too many torn biceps and ankle tweaks and refused drug tests. Too many promoters changing their minds about percentages on the Wednesday before fight week. Here's what I'll commit to: if Joshua gets through Prenga on July 25 looking like himself, this fight happens, this fight sells out Wembley in 90 minutes, and this fight breaks every Netflix sports record. If he loses on July 25? You can throw all of this in the bin and we are reading exactly the same kind of "negotiations close" story this time next year. Tyson Fury says he's retiring after this. Anthony Joshua hasn't fought in two years. Both men are 38 by November. There is no version of British boxing where this fight gets bigger if we wait. So hats off to Hearn and Alalshikh — get it done, get it on, and let's finally have the ring walk we have all been promised since the second Klitschko fight never happened. See you in November. Maybe.