Mahmood Charr has thrown his name into the hat for a prospective fight with WBC world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury following the drawn-out negotiations between Fury and Anthony Joshua. Negotiations seem to have hit an impasse with promoter Frank Warren saying that Fury is very frustrated with how talks are going following the confirmation of a contract being sent to Joshua and the delay in a contract being returned.
However, it has been public knowledge that Fury will be fighting on December 3rd in Cardiff regardless if Joshua is in the opposite corner or not. One possible opponent has been mooted by Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn and Tyson’s own brother, Shane Fury, is Mahmood (formerly Manuel) Charr. The former WBA “regular” heavyweight champion and WBC world title challenger in 2012 has not hidden his desire to fight Fury and apparently signed to two other heavyweights which are signed to Frank Warren. Those other names are not known at time of publication. Along with his desire to fight Fury, Charr has taken aim at Anthony Joshua in a somewhat tasteless tirade against him.
“Anthony Puss-ua. You have the chance to fight the best, WBC heavyweight Tyson Fury. Sign the paper,” Charr stated Monday on his Instagram channel. “If not, go out and let real men fight. Tyson Fury, come on. Let’s go.”
Charr has been incredibly inactive over recent years mainly due to injury, doping suspensions (successfully overturned) and a WBA title reign which ran from 2017 to January 2021 but didn't defend the title once or even fight during that period following his capture of the then vacant title defeating Aleksandr Ustinov. Don King also held up Charr’s career in a protracted saga which would have seen Charr fight then interim title holder Trevor Bryant, which fell through on several occasions and ended with Charr being stripped of his title for failure to secure a travel visa to properly defend his belt. The matter serves as the subject of an ongoing lawsuit filed by Charr against the WBA and Don King, Bryan’s Hall of Fame promoter whom Charr and his team allege to have colluded with the sanctioning body to freeze him out.
Charr returned to action in May 2021 with a second-round knockout victory against Christopher Lovejoy before fighting twelve months later in May 2022 defeating Nikola Milacic via knockout.
