Fury intends to extend an invitation to the sitting US president ahead of his heavyweight bout with Joshua, framing it as a favor between two men who already have a public rapport.

“I’ll definitely make that offer to my old buddy, old pal, and we’ll see if he’s available,” Fury told reporters ahead of the fight.

He accepted that the diary may not work.

“Probably unlikely because of the situation he’s in at the moment, being the President of the United States.”

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From a White House cap to Cardiff

The pair met in June at UFC Freedom 250 inside the White House grounds, where Fury wore a cap reading “Donald Trump for Prime Minister.” Trump had earlier lifted Fury’s US travel ban, a gesture the former heavyweight champion has leaned into publicly ever since.

A sitting US president leading a British fighter’s ring walk at a Welsh stadium would be the kind of pre-fight theater Fury has built a career on, from fancy dress to live singing to nunchucks. The Trump offer slots neatly into that pattern, and Fury himself acknowledged the long odds in the same breath as making it.

The deal that ended 15 years of talks

The December 11 bout at the Principality Stadium ends more than a decade of on-and-off negotiations between the two camps. The deal was brokered by Turki Alalshikh and will be shown globally on Netflix, with the main event scheduled for the early hours of Saturday morning in Cardiff to serve the US television window.

“For 15 years no one has been able to make this fight,” Alalshikh said when confirming the agreement. “I can now confirm that Fury vs Joshua will be coming to the UK, as I promised British boxing fans. The time for talking is over.”

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The vacant WBA ‘super’ heavyweight title, previously held by Oleksandr Usyk, will be on the line.

Already looking past Joshua

Fury has not been shy about where this fight sits in his own plans.

“I’m using this as a warm-up for Usyk,” he said.

Both Fury and Joshua have lost twice to the Ukrainian, and a trilogy with Usyk is what Fury has publicly chased since announcing his return. The Joshua fight pays its own way financially, but in Fury’s telling it is a staging post.

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A White House response to the ring-walk invitation has not yet been reported. The next scheduled stop before Cardiff is the fight week itself, which will culminate at the Principality Stadium on December 11.

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