Heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has attacked rival Anthony Joshua and wants to bring his old belts back to the UK
WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has taken aim at British rival Anthony Joshua and pledged to bring the rest of the division’s belts back to the UK by beating Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk.
Before a packed crowd at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in September, a battle of Olympic gold medalists saw Joshua outclassed by Usyk and relieved of his WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO straps via unanimous decision.
Furthermore, the result also meant that a unification box office smash planned between AJ and Fury – which could have taken in two dates in Saudi Arabia and London – had to be shelved and left all concerned missing out on lucrative paydays.
Almost four months on from the disappointment, Fury has rubbed salt into Joshua’s wounds and blasted him for letting the side down.
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Tagging the Brit and Usyk in a social media video as he bounced on a treadmill, ‘The Gypsy King’ started by saying: “You know what I can’t believe? That AJ has gone and given Ukraine all the heavyweight belts back after all my hard work in stealing them [from Wladimir Klitschko in late 2015].
“You big useless dosser,” he told Joshua.