Tyson Fury has come to brutal Anthony Joshua 'conclusion' as boxing saga goes on
Tyson Fury has opened up with Anthony Joshua boxing fight hanging in the balance
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Tyson Fury says he's come to the 'conclusion' that Anthony Joshua won't fight him - regardless of the money being offered.
The two Brits have been in talks for years over a battle for the ages.
Yet no agreement has ever been reached, robbing the British public of a sensational spectacle in the process.
Fury and Joshua have regularly exchanged verbal barbs but, still, the saga drags on.
Anthony Joshua has been called out once again by Tyson Fury with fight hopes fading
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And the Gypsy King, speaking while promoting his new nine-part Netflix docu-series ‘At Home with The Furys’, has claimed Joshua won't step into the ring regardless of how much money is on offer.
“Here's the thing about Anthony Joshua - I cannot get him in the ring for any amount of money," he said.
"I've offered him world title shots and extremely large amounts of money, but he ain't going to make the fight.
"Me and my team, my lawyers, have come to the conclusion and accepted the fact that AJ won't fight me for any money or any titles.
"I saw footage of him recently training by punching a mattress – I'm not sure if it was taken off TikTok or one of his social media accounts, but I've no idea what was going on there.”
Fury is set to fight Francis Ngannou in Saudi Arabia in October.
And that's because he's been unable to negotiate a fight with fellow heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk.
Fury, never one to mince his words, has now slammed the Ukrainian and accused him of cowering out of a potential contest.
"Usyk was supposed to be fighting me at Wembley last April, but that never happened," continued the 34-year-old.
“There was talk of me making all sorts of demands but there was nothing to back it up.
"The only conditions on my part were that there would be no rematch and he'd get 30 per cent – which he agreed to, only to try and worm his way out of it.
"Now he's fighting Daniel Dubois in a three-title unification fight for a purse of $8 million, which makes no sense because 30 per-cent of the purse for fighting me would have been worth around £13 million to him, so he's passing up more than twice as much money.
"As for the cheap talk of Tyson Fury avoiding Usyk, I would smash him to smithereens.
"I don't rate him at all, I'll go through him like a hot knife through a block of cheese – not a problem.
"But he can't expect to make around £6m to fight Dubois and then make £13m to step in the ring with me. Not happening.”
Joshua, meanwhile, has rubbished suggestions Fury is the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time.
"Fury was apparently the greatest of all time and I know for a fact, from a historical point of view, there is no way he can be classed as the greatest of all time," he said.
"Just from a resume point of view, a world-title defences point of view, there's no way. It's just crazy.
"I can go and fight Deontay Wilder and they'll say, 'Right, he fought champions, he fought former champions, he fought the best the heavyweight division had to offer in his era. But yeah, he's a bum. We don't really respect him'.
"One thing I find interesting when it comes to me is it's Anthony Joshua versus this one; Anthony Joshua versus that one; Anthony Joshua versus that one.
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"Fury versus whoever he wants, Wilder sits silent for two years after he fought [Robert] Helenius. But I've got to fight everyone."
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