ANTHONY JOSHUA has hailed his move to DAZN as a “new phase” in his career after signing a long-term partnership with the streaming site.
The Brit will attempt to win back the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight titles off Oleksandr Usyk later this year.
But before he steps back inside the squared circle, Joshua has signed a £100million deal, leaving Sky Sports for streaming firm DAZN.
There are also a number of perks which come with it for Joshua.
He has also become a shareholder with DAZN. On top of this, he has also become a brand ambassador.
On Instagram, Joshua said: “New phase in my career, new training team and new broadcaster.”
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Joshua’s deal with DAZN isn’t the only cash windfall he could be set for over the next year.
WBC heavyweight champ Tyson Fury has opened the door to a return to boxing despite vowing to retire after beating Dillian Whyte at Wembley earlier this year.
Fury confirmed he is training “like a lunatic” and will come out of retirement for a mega-purse — which could top £200m.
And Joshua could land that fight should he beat Usyk.
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Fury has offered to help prepare Joshua for the fight in his Morecambe gym.
Undefeated Fury said: “I will give you a brutally honest answer to this — unless Anthony Joshua gets his arse up to Morecambe and lets me train him for this fight, Robert Garcia and ten men like will not make him beat Usyk.
“One, they don’t know him. Two, they don’t know what he has in his engine. And three, he is not a little Mexican who can go toe to toe with someone for 15 rounds.
“If he gets on Usyk from round one and tries to push and be aggressive, he will be gassed out after four rounds and get stopped inside seven.
“But if he comes to Morecambe Bay and I teach him how to be a real fighting man for 12 rounds and how to deal with these little middleweight people, then he will get a win.
“Other than that, I see him getting beat again, two in a row baby, and then it’s over.
“But if he wants to resurrect his career then please come up to the man who has been undefeated for 13 years and retired as only the second heavyweight in history to be on top of the game. It all goes on whatever Robert Garcia’s game plan is and how quickly he wants him to get chinned.
“To have a come-forward style and keep being aggressive, when you are a big man like him and me are, then you need to have two V12 engines.
“You need to be able to take punches and you need to have balls like King Kong and he doesn’t have any of these three.
“He doesn’t have the best engine in the world, he doesn’t have toughness and he doesn’t have King Kong balls.
“Without them he needs the best game plan ever and just going on the front foot and attacking is impossible for him because he doesn’t have the grit, determination or will, or any of the above, to do it.
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“The only way I see him doing it is if he hits him with a big punch, which he didn’t last time, and tries to knock him out that way.
“But if he goes on the front foot and tries to be aggressive with Usyk then he gets stopped inside eight rounds — and I mean that.”
