John Fury has put a £2.5 million price on a fight with Carl Froch, saying a £1 million offer was nowhere near enough to make it happen. He said the money would need to cover tax and everyone else involved, leaving him clear that the earlier figure did not stack up.
The comments came at the press conference for Tommy Fury and Eddie Hall, where John Fury was in the room and quickly turned attention away from the build-up to that fight and toward his own pitch. He said he was interested in anybody, but the numbers mattered, and on his own telling the gap between £1 million and £2.5 million was too wide to bridge.
Fury, who said he is 61, framed the demand as a question of value as much as pay. Froch is 48, and the age difference adds another layer to a matchup that already feels more like a talking point than a deal in motion. Fury said he brings attention and “different stuff to the game,” and he leaned into that role without pretending he is a quiet negotiator.
There is still a basic uncertainty at the centre of it all: it is not clear whether Froch made a formal £1 million offer or whether the figure was floated in conversation, and Fury’s £2.5 million response may be less a hard negotiation than a public line in the sand. He said he does not need the money, only to know his worth, but his own arithmetic suggests the fight would have to pay far more than the initial number on the table.
That leaves the proposed matchup in the same place many boxing side plots end up — loud enough to draw attention, not firm enough to count as real. For now, Tommy Fury and Eddie Hall remain the fight on the schedule, while John Fury keeps the noise around Carl Froch alive by making clear that if anyone wants him in the ring, the price starts much higher than £1 million.
