Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua Fight for WBA Super Title

Menu Results Schedule Rankings Videos Tickets Forum Contact Us Menu Rankings Schedule Results Boxing Live Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua Fight for WBA Super Title Google News Preferred Source By Boxing News 24 Desk - 09/24/2026 - Comments Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua are receiving an unearned gift from the World Boxing Association. Neither Briton holds a world title, and their December 11 spectacle in Cardiff on Netflix certainly requires no manufactured hardware to pack a stadium. The sanctioning body is tossing its top heavyweight prize into the ring anyway, staging a brazen demotion of the actual titleholder standing in the wings.

Murat Gassiev did everything asked of him. He earned his position in the ring, collected his status after Oleksandr Usyk vacated, and defended his position by stopping Peter Kadiru in July. His reward is watching the WBA invent a higher tier out of thin air to accommodate two fighters who enter the ring with zero championship claims.

The super champion designation was created to honor unifications and dominant multi-belt reigns. Fury and Joshua possess none of that hardware today. Handing an elite designation to a pair of contenders coming off non-title bouts shreds the integrity of the rankings. The organization relies on discretionary clauses in its rulebook, but pulling bureaucratic rank to vault two big-name fighters past an active titlist exposes pure promotional favoritism.