Eddie Hearn makes extraordinary claim about Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury fight contract

Ahead of the November fight between the fabled British boxers, Eddie Hearn has made an extraordinary claim about the clauses snubbed by Anthony Joshua.

What is set to be the fight of the year, Joshua versus Fury looks to be signed, sealed, and delivered, as Netflix dropped a random promo video during WWE Raw.

It followed an explosive rant from Fury, which looked to leave the fight in question again, but now appears to be some savvy marketing amid an 'announcement' pencilled in for his social media.

The fight has been subject to months, if not years, of contractual disputes that reached a boiling point as Dana White stuck his ten pence in and was the subject of threats of a lawsuit from Eddie Hearn.

But it finally looks like the T's have been crossed and the I's have been dotted on the contracts, with the fight finally set to take place in November.

Although, according to Eddie Hearn, the contracts include a wealth of additional clauses which Joshua has snubbed at the expense of a significant pay cut.

Anthony Joshua opts out of 'additional' Fury fight contract clauses

Earlier this week, UFC President Dana White erupted into an explosive rant, explaining that the contract talks were getting tiresome.

"Contracts and this and that? There’s a lot of f**king money up for grabs in this fight. Do you want to fight or do you not want to fight? I don’t give a s**t one way or the other," he said.

"I’d be happy [if the fight was in the UK]. I don’t give a s**t. Do you want to fight, or do you not want to fight?"

Now, Hearn has responded to these claims, revealing that Joshua has agreed to a smaller share of the pie by opting out of the 'additional stuff' that has been offered.

"What [the organisers] want to do is they want to pay Anthony Joshua less money because that's how it'll work out with the difference in location, they want him to do a load of additional stuff," Hearn said at the Matchroom Boxing conference.

"I'm not going to blow things up, which I could do so easily, but there has been breaches in AJ's contract already which we've let slide because these guys are our partners and our friends or WERE [our friends]. There's a game being played at the moment."

As to what the 'additional' clauses include, well, that's unknown.

But you can hypothesise that they will likely be promotional campaigns and like-minded pre-event hype tactics.

Instead, the Joshua camp looks set on simply doing the action in the ring.