Tyson Fury recently appeared on British comedy show called Redknapp’s Home Fixture on Sky One. But he wasn’t joking when he said what he’d do to fellow titleholder Anthony Joshua.
Fury said he’d take out Joshua “two to three rounds.”
Of course, Fury first must get past Deontay Wilder in their third fight. They are expected to meet before the end of the year.
“AJ’s style is tailor-made for mine,” Fury said on the show. “Upright, walking forward, classic defense. Strong and powerful, but no footwork, hardly any resilience and a bit gutless when it comes down to getting clipped.
“I’ll knock him out around two to three rounds. First time I connect, his legs will do a dance. I’ll just jump on him like that fat kid (Andy Ruiz). I’ll tell you what shot it’s gonna be, should I? ‘Left hook to the temple. You’re gonna see him do a Bambi dance all over the ring.
“Eddie Hearn talks a lot of hot air, as usual. I’ve been offering to fight Joshua for quite a while. I’ve been trying to make that fight happen for the last five years. And it’s not happened at all.
“Eddie’s obviously Joshua’s promoter, so he’ll have to be speaking to my team to make the fight happen, give the fans what they want and stop running away from the biggest fight since Lennox [Lewis] fought Frank Bruno.
“Have the guts to step up to the plate and get flattened, son.”
Fury is coming off a sensational seventh-round knockout in his rematch with Wilder in February. Joshua lost his belts to Ruiz by a seventh-round KO in June of last year but outpointed Ruiz to regain them in December.
If Fury beats Wilder again and Joshua gets past mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev, another fight expected to take place soon, they could meet in the all-British blockbuster next year.