After more than a decade of public feuding and false starts, Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua exchanged pleasantries, traded jokes and even discussed going for a pint at a news conference in London.
The British heavyweight rivals will fight at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on 11 December.
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But for all the history between them, the launch felt more like two veterans in the closing stages of long, turbulent careers taking stock of how far they had both come.
“He’s been a role model and poster boy for British boxing for years,” Fury, 38, said of Joshua. “I mostly find myself defending my arch rival to fans in the street.”
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