You might have thought you were going crazy when you read that headline, but no, it’s true. Welcome to 2026 and the world of AI on social media, where Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua has already happened – twice.
Now Elon Musk is a billionaire many times over, he spent a whopping $44billion to purchase social media platform X (then Twitter) back in 2022. But despite his business success, there are some things he just can’t seem to get right.
One of those things is his AI-powered Trending functionality on X, which signposts users to the biggest happenings in the world right now, along with a lovely summary of what went down so far. The only problem is, AI is really really bad at breaking news.
We got another perfect example on Monday and Tuesday when boxing was centre stage after the announcement that Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua will finally happen in Q4 of this year.
Soon after the announcement, sure enough, X threw up a trending page to signify this was quite a big deal, but in the process got things horribly wrong.
Fury vs Joshua, how AI got it wrong
We’ll give the detail on what the platform said first, before pointing out all the horrible inaccuracies:
Joshua, with a 28-4 record and 26 knockouts, faces underdog Kristian Prenga (20-1, 20 KOs) on July 25 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, headlining Esports World Cup Fight Week and streaming on DAZN. The fight kicks off his 2026 schedule, serving as a tune-up for a confirmed trilogy bout against Fury in the fourth quarter on Netflix. Promoters Eddie Hearn and Turki Alalshikh confirmed the Fury clash, building on their 2021 fights where Fury won both, with Wembley rumored as the venue.
So, to the inaccuracies, of which there are two major ones. First of all Joshua’s record is now 29-4 – AI conveniently forgot that AJ had blasted out YouTuber Jake Paul last December.
The real big one though, is that of course Fury and Joshua have as yet never fought. Yes they signed a contract in 2021 for a two-fight deal, but that never happened because Deontay Wilder won a court ruling to force a third fight with Fury.
To rub salt in the wounds of all the AJ fans out there, not only did AI put two Fury vs Joshua fights ‘in the books’ it gave them both to Fury. Now that is quite the scoring controversy.
Just to be clear, when Fury (35-2-1) and Joshua (29-4) do finally step in a ring together later this year, it will be for the very first time.
So another example of how AI is far from perfect, and how humans will (probably always be needed).
Long live journalism.
