By Gerardo Romero
Sep 24, 2024, 12:18 PM EDT
British boxer Tyson Fury has said he is not at all interested in Anthony Joshua’s knockout loss to Daniel Dubois this weekend and said the only man he has in mind and would like to face again in the ring is Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk.
During an interview with iFL TV, the heavyweight fighter considered that Usyk “took his virginity” by giving him the first defeat in his career as a professional boxer in the fight they had this year; for this reason he stressed that he wants to get a rematch to prove that he can remain the best in the division.
“They always tried to build up a fight between me and AJ. That was going to be the fight where we were both going to make tons of money. That fight didn’t happen, and we both ended up fighting other rivals and still making tons of money. If the fight happens at some point, great, but if it doesn’t, that’s fine too. I don’t care if it happens or not,” he said.
Many boxing experts and fans were hoping for a fight between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, as they are the top heavyweight figures in Great Britain in recent years; despite this, Joshua’s defeat this weekend practically cut off these possibilities, which are added to Fury’s desire to face only Usyk to try to take the championship belts from him.
“What really worries me is that there’s a man (Usyk) who has a decision in his favour against me. I’m not worried about some bum (Joshua) who just got beat up. He’s nothing. I’ve got someone who has a win over me, who took my virginity, stole it and took it to Ukraine, or Spain or wherever he lives,” Fury said in his statements.
“He has a win over me, and that’s what I’m worried about and not another man. I have a man (Usyk) who basically has me by the balls. Yeah, that’s how he has me. I don’t think he really beat me in that fight. But now I’m going to beat him, and I’m going to knock him out, and I’m going to train to give him a good knockout like I did with (Deontay) Wilder,” concluded the fighter.
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