Deontay Wilder was set to face off against Britain’s WBC champion Tyson Fury for the WBC World Heavyweight Championship in Las Vegas on July 24. Ahead of their boxing match, they had a press conference where they could not stop staring at each other. However, that was cancelled after Tyson Fury tested positive for COVID-19. Tyson Fury also leaked bad news related to Wilder’s health previously.
Tyson Fury is also eyeing a boing match against Anthony Joshua and it seems he recently fired off at Anthony Joshua as he spoke to The Overlap. He made it clear that he will absolutely annihilate Anthony Joshua, despite reports that Joshua handily beat Fury in sparring at the gym.
“AJ couldn’t smoke a cigarette, never mind smoke the ‘Gypsy King,’” said Fury to the Overlap when asked if he could beat Joshua. “He hasn’t got the minerals to fight a man like me.
“I said to Eddie Hearn, ‘The difference between me and him is he’s a businessman and I’m a [bleep] spartan,’ and I’ll show him that when I get him in the ring. I would absolutely annihilate that bodybuilder.
“It won’t go past six rounds. I’ll be over with quickly. He knows that, and his whole team knows it, and that why Eddie Hearn has been steering him around me for the last ten years,” said Fury.
Well, the good news is Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn is on record for saying that it doesn’t matter if Fury gets beaten by Wilder. He’ll still be interested in matching Joshua against Fury, even under those circumstances with ‘The Gypsy King’ coming into the contest off the back of a loss.
Of course, with Fury’s big ego, he’d likely insist on fighting Wilder in a fourth fight right away rather than accept a helping hand by Hearn to fight Joshua.
If Fury’s ego gets in the way of common sense, he’ll take the fight with Wilder, and his career could be finished off at that point. I mean, this is obviously a worst-case scenario, but it’s very, very realistic.
