I don’t care about AJ the ‘bodybuilder’
BY DAVID ANDERSON ANTHONY JOSHUA’S hopes of fighting Tyson Fury have been dealt a knockout blow.
And the Gypsy King admitted: “I couldn’t give a flying hoot about that bodybuilder.”
Fight fans still dream of seeing two of Britain’s greatest heavyweights clash after a planned £200million superfight in Saudi Arabia fell through last summer.
Fury, though, insists he has moved on and has no interest in fighting Joshua since he lost his three world titles to Oleksandr Usyk (below).
The unbeaten WBC king defends his crown against Dillian Whyte in front of a record 94,000 crowd at Wembley on Saturday and says former WBA Super, IBF and WBO champ AJ (top) is not on his radar.
“I couldn’t give one flying hoot or sniff about that bodybuilder, no interest,” said Fury.
“When he was an unbeaten man, not a problem, when he was a champion, not a bother, but now he has nothing to offer.
“What did he say years ago? I only want to fight the people who have the belts. All of a sudden, he doesn’t have any belts.”
Fury says Joshua will become even more irrelevant if, as he expects, he loses his summer rematch with Usyk.
And Fury does not see how Joshua could rebuild his career after a third shattering loss and mocked him for demanding £20million step-aside money to let him face the Ukrainian in his place.
He accused Joshua of being “greedy” when his team were prepared to pay him £15m to step aside.
“Here’s how it goes, you heard it here first. He’s going to get busted by Usyk in the rematch if he even has the guts to take it, then he’s finished, career over,” added Fury.
“Three losses, goodnight
Vienna, got beat by a middleweight move over. “He had the opportunity to make it all go away and let me take care of his dirty washing and pay him money to do it, but he didn’t because greed got the better of him.
“They thought I was a desperate man and that I wanted to fight for the undisputed title that much, I’d give away everything. The demands these people were making were ridiculous.
“Out of every negative situation, something positive has happened and I’m smiling now like a Cheshire Cat.”