This is the year boxing can become truly, truly big-time again.
This is the year when the world heavyweight champion can again become THE most illustrious title in sport.
Considering the controversies and debates that have surrounded it in recent times, boxing now has a glorious chance to put itself front and centre of the sporting world and it has to be taken.
Which is why you can understand Tyson Fury’s frustration.
Presumably, it will, to some extent, be sorted over the next 24 hours and we will have at least an idea who is fighting who in the heavyweight division.
Other than earning a few million for doing nothing, it would not seem ideal for Dillian Whyte but the one fight the sport needs most is Fury against Oleksandr Usyk.
The one thing the sport needs most is an undisputed world heavyweight champion.
And that is the quickest route. Whyte would have to step aside from his mandatory challenge for Fury’s WBC belt and Joshua would have to step aside from his rematch with Usyk.
But imagine the interest in both a Fury-Usyk showdown and the possibility of Joshua fighting the winner.
While a Fury-Usyk clash would almost certainly take place in the Middle East, imagine the interest in the follow-up fight if it could be staged in the United Kingdom.
If Fury-Usyk cannot be facilitated immediately, boxing must still end 2022 with its first undisputed world heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis in 1999.
Because this is the year boxing can again become one of THE world’s most talked-about sports.
It cannot afford to blow its chance.
