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Key points: - Frank Warren says Fury and Joshua have no reason to delay their fight beyond November - Eddie Hearn says Joshua’s contract requires the fight to happen in the UK, resisting reported Madison Square Garden plans for November 20 - Hearn: “We want to make it so financially unviable for them to change the contract” - Turki Alalshikh is expected to announce the official date and location Frank Warren says there’s no good reason for Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua to push their long-awaited fight past November, even as a separate battle over the actual venue threatens to hold up the announcement. “There is still plenty of time,” Warren told a media roundtable. “The fighters will just need to get into training some time in September, so that is what will happen in early September. I believe the fight will go on in November.” Warren dismissed the idea that Joshua needs extra recovery time after being dropped by Kristian Prenga, pointing out both heavyweights already fought within a day of each other in late July. The venue question is proving harder to settle. Reports have linked the fight to Madison Square Garden on November 20, but Eddie Hearn insists Joshua’s contract requires it stay in Britain. “Anthony Joshua made me insert a clause into the contract that said the fight must happen in the UK. So, at the moment, it can’t happen anywhere else,” Hearn said on talkSPORT Boxing. “It sounds like everybody’s agreed they want to do this fight at Madison Square Garden. We don’t. We want to make it so financially unviable for them to change the contract that they’ve got no choice but to do it in the UK.” Warren, for his part, sees Joshua’s vulnerability against Prenga as a warning sign rather than a reason to wait. “Looking at the Prenga fight, if that had been Tyson in there, that would have been all over,” he said. With both camps still negotiating terms, Turki Alalshikh is expected to make the date and location official once the venue dispute is resolved.