WBA, IBF, WBO champion Anthony Joshua has slammed WBC,
Lineal and Ring Magazine heavyweight champion of the world Tyson Fury saying
the Gypsy King has only had two ‘good fights’ in his entire career.
Fury and Joshua, both British, are set to fight at the
ending of 2020 providing that Joshua beats his IBF mandatory challenger Kubrat
Pulev in June and Fury wins his third fight against Deontay Wilder this summer.
Fury after defeating Wilder to claim the WBC belt, recently
blasted Joshua by stating that Joshua is not a true champion because he(Fury)
had dethroned Wladimir Klitschko on a famous night in Dusseldorf five years ago
to capture the WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO world belts - all now held by Joshua - but
was quickly stripped of them due to drug and mental health issues.
'I've already been the undisputed heavyweight champion of
the world when I beat Klitschko, I had all of the belts,' Fury said during an
appearance on This Morning alongside his wife Paris.
'So as far as I'm concerned, Anthony Joshua has only got my
leftovers because I never lost those belts. I had to vacate them for mental
health problems. They're my belts.'
Anthony Joshua has now hit back by saying Fury’s only
difficult opponents during his career have been Deontay Wilder and Wladimir
Klitschko.
‘The fight can happen when Tyson Fury gets past his third
match with Deontay Wilder and the fight can happen when I get past my next
match with Kubrat Pulev,’ Joshua said in a promotional video for Land Rover.
‘If Fury wants that fight to happen, he’ll make it happen.
‘We’re keen, we always like to put on big events and cater for the boxing
community, so that’s something that we’ll take really seriously.
‘Congratulations to him on his last performance.
‘He’s had two good fights in his career in my opinion,
against Klitschko and Wilder and he’s managed to win them both so he’s on a
high right now. ‘But he has to be careful what he wishes for because the young
gunners are coming up and we’ll definitely take that Tyson Fury challenge with
both hands.’
