Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has sent a public message to Eddie Hearn, telling him ‘we’re ready’ to host Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury at Wembley.
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It is known that contracts are signed for the bout, with just the date and venue left to be agreed in a lucrative site deal.
Most indications from both camps have suggested the fight would be heading abroad, likely to the Middle East, where a foreign nation would pay big money to host.
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These offers still remain frontrunners to secure the fight in July, but Hearn previously told talkSPORT that Wembley is not completely ruled out after all.
The Matchroom boss said on talkSPORT: “All things being equal, we wouldn’t even be having conversations with anywhere else in the world to be honest with you, we’d just be straight into Wembley.
“Obviously it is the biggest fight of our generation. It’s the moment of both fighters’ careers.
“We do have to look at opportunities and with the crowd restrictions it makes it even more difficult to generate the kind of money in the UK that you need…
“Could we get full capacity after the Euros, sort of middle/end of July?
“If we could, that does bring London and Wembley into the conversation.
“I’d love to find an excuse to do it in the UK and to find a way.
“And, if that is an option, that will be presented to the fighters as well.”
Hearn has since touted July 24 as a possible date for the fight to happen at Wembley.
And London Mayor Khan has now told SNTV: “Eddie Hearn can do anything, I mean this guy is amazing. I call Eddie a friend, I’m a fan of his.
“The fact that he pulled off Joshua vs Klitschko, 90,000 was impressive. We worked closely with him.
“I’m keen to see Joshua vs Fury, I think it will be amazing.
“Wouldn’t it be great to see those two great boxers, world champions, boxing amongst their own fans? Both Tyson and Anthony will tell you how grateful they are to their fans in this country.
“Eddie knows how to reach me. We’ll do what we can to support Eddie.
“I appreciate there’s politics in boxing as well. I appreciate there’s issues around broadcasting, there’s issues around sponsorship, but if Eddie and the teams want to have the fight in London, we’re ready.”
Donald Trump has launched a fresh attack on Sadiq Khan by suggesting the London mayor was to blame for the hacking of the Metropolitan Police's Twitter account.
The president retweeted a post by former reality TV star Katie Hopkins, who took a screenshot of one of the messages.
In the tweet, Ms Hopkins wrote: 'The Met Police.
With the incompetent Mayor of London, you will never have safe streets! https://t.co/pJqL1NjyvA
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 20, 2019'Officers says they have lost control of London streets. Apparently they lost control of their twitter account too.'
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The president famously does not see eye-to-eye with the capital's mayor, frequently hitting out at him on social media.
It comes the morning after the Metropolitan Police lost control of their media accounts when a series of bizarre messages appeared on the force's twitter feed.
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'What you gonna do call the police?', 'We are the police.. Cal and Dylan are gay' and 'no comment get my lawyer' were among some of the authorised messages that appeared on Friday night but have since been deleted.
A number of the tweets also called for the release of drill rap artist Digga D and linked to false press releases regarding the rapper and an apparently missing child.
Emails linking to bogus press releases calling for Digga D's release were also sent from Scotland Yard's press bureau.
A Scotland Yard superintendent said the account, which has more than 1.22 million followers, had 'been subject to unauthorised access'.
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Superintendent Roy Smith tweeted at the time: 'Our media team are working hard to delete the messages and ensure the security of the account.
'Please ignore any Tweets until we verify that it is back under official control.'
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Some of the posts received hundreds of likes and retweets.
The Metropolitan Police said in a statement the security breach had only affected their MyNewsDesk account, which publishes to the Met's website and Twitter accounts and generates emails.
It said there had been 'no 'hack' of the Met Police's own IT infrastructure'.
The statement continued: 'When a story is published via MyNewsDesk, it appears on the Met's website and Twitter accounts and generates an email to those who've subscribed to receive our news updates.
'Last night, Friday 19 July, unauthorised messages appeared on the news section of our website as well as on the @metpoliceuk Twitter feed and in emails sent to subscribers.
'While we are still working to establish exactly what happened, we have begun making changes to our access arrangements to MyNewsDesk.
'We apologise to our subscribers and followers for the messages they have received.'
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The force said it was working to establish what criminal offences had been committed.