Tyson Fury Wants Anthony Joshua Or Deontay Wilder

 

Tyson Fury says Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder are his only possible opponents once he has dealt with Wladimir Klitschko for a second time. Eddie Hearn this week predicted Fury-Joshua could happen before the end of 2016 in the wake of Joshua's IBF title success against Charles Martin.

Fury was unimpressed with that second-round stoppage and has vowed never again to fight for the IBF belt after the organization stripped him in December just weeks after a stunning points success against Klitschko but the heavyweight champion, who still holds the WBO and WBA versions, admits money is his motivation and says the prospect of giving his unborn grandchildren a secure future could see him step in the ring with the unbeaten Olympic champion.

He said “The biggest fights are [WBC champion] Deontay Wilder and Anthony Joshua. There's only those two fights that could generate that money. I've already secured my future. If I never box again I don't have to work again until I die - 100 years or whatever - so I'm just securing grandkids and their kids now. I've already beaten the best man there is and was, so I have no motivation. Whoever they put in front of me I'll fight, but they've got nothing that I want. Only money - they're going to give me money to do it, so I'll do it”.

Fury branded Joshua's weekend performance slow and ponderous in the immediate aftermath of the fight and renewed his criticism at a Wednesday press conference when he called the new champ a pumped-up weightlifter.