Fury Wants Joshua Fight Before Retiring

By Daily Sports Nigeria on November 17, 2022

Tyson Fury has done a complete U-turn in terms of his desire to take on Anthony Joshua, now saying that he needs the fight.

After Joshua was beaten by Usyk for the second time earlier this year, to everyone’s surprise he was called out by Fury for a ‘Battle of Britain’ and at first it seemed like it might actually happen.

Negotiations quickly collapsed and he will now fight Derek Chisora on December 3 instead with the whole debacle seemingly putting Fury off ever wanting to fight Joshua.

 “He doesn’t have any belts. He doesn’t have anything that I need and there will not be a fight between him and me ever. Full stop,” Fury told Sky Sports.

 “There’s too much messing. I’m not going over it again. They’re too hard to deal with.

 “The fight didn’t happen. The reason I believe is they never wanted it to happen and they never had any intention of it happening.

 “The first week [of negotiations] I believe he was interested in the fight then he realised the daunting task and he got talked out of it by his people and himself. If that wasn’t the reason, he would be here now fighting instead of Derek. But he’s not and that is that.

 “No Joshua, no more, no more wasting time. The way he is, he’s in a comfortable position and he’s worked hard for it. I’m not going to discredit his performances or discredit his achievements. What I can discredit is his lack of commitment to the British public.”

This seemed pretty final from Fury, but he recently appeared on the High Performance Podcast and completely changed his tune.

 “I don’t think I can retire today,” Fury said. “Because I need that Joshua fight. We have been trying to make that fight for years.

 “It’s the fight that people want to see. It’s the fight that I want to see as a boxing fan.”

 “For the last four or five years, there has been this three-headed monster: me, Wilder, Joshua.

 “Joshua and Wilder have been slain, and I’m the last one standing. All of a sudden, you’ve got some new people coming up now, Joe Joyce, Daniel Dubois, Usyk’s gate-crashed the party.

 “Now there’s a load of new blood that wasn’t there five years ago and it’s like, ‘can you beat this person?’.

 “But I think it would be an absolute dying travesty if me and Joshua didn’t fight in this era.”

Source Sporting Sun

Posted November 17, 2022


 

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