Tyson Fury Says Anthony Joshua Lacked “balls” To Fighting Him

By Barry Holbrook: Tyson Fury is satisfied that his would-be combat with Anthony Joshua fell apart, now no longer due to the 2 closing dates that he sent, however instead due to the fact AJ lacked the “balls” to stand him.

Fury believes that Joshua initially become on board with combating him, however then after per week of questioning it over, he modified his mind.

With that stated, many boxing enthusiasts consider it become Fury (32-0-1, 23 KOs) who fouled matters up with the aid of using placing closing dates for Joshua (24-3, 22 KOs) to signal the agreement. Fury didn`t try this with the journeyman Dereck Chisora, and now no longer unexpected the agreement become signed.

“I become that assured that I positioned ten grand on it that he wouldnt signal the agreement, and he didnt. Im now no longer going to attend round for a person that Im chucking a bone to,” stated Tyson Fury to talkSPORT Boxing approximately his failed negotiations with Anthony Joshua.

“Its now no longer like hes a champion, and hes chucking me a bone. Its a loss of balls. If youre in price and your assertive, and youre the person of your crew, you inform the crew to make the combat manifest in case you actually need it.

“If you don`t need it, you discover 1,000,000 excuses why. I can apprehend why due to the fact to make this Chisora combat, that is me combating Chisora in a trilogy, and 258 made this pretty hard.

“I can best consider how hard it’d be with the legal professionals of the opposite fella [Joshua], the golden child. Its very unimportant nowadays due to the fact its beyond history. Im combating who Im combating, Derek.

“Initially, once I made the video for Joshua, he become all up for it find it irresistible become a notable deal, and he become on board. I do assume withinside the subsequent seven days, he modified his mind, and his crew didn`t need it.

“If he did need it, Id be combating him and now no longer Chisora nowadays. No, due to the fact Im the most important promoter withinside the sport. No it is easy to compete with me in promoting. I`m the most important promoter out there,” stated Fury whilst requested if he need to have left it as much as his promoters to make the Joshua combat in place of placing closing dates.

“Im in price of the whole lot due to the fact Im the person of my crew. Everyone works for me. You cant make a combat that someone else doesnt need. I don`t assume you may have dragged him there with a JCB,” stated Fury.