Anthony Joshua refuses to offer prediction for Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk

10 February 2023 , 10:56

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Anthony Joshua refuses to offer prediction for Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk

Anthony Joshua has refused to give a prediction for the potential undisputed heavyweight title fight between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk.

Heavyweight champions Fury and Usyk are expected to face each other at the end of April but no official announcement for the undisputed clash has been made. Usyk won the unified belts by beating Joshua in September 2021 before defending them in their rematch last August. And while Joshua thinks the fight between the two champions will take place, he is refusing to make a prediction for it.

"If you're asking me as if I'm the person in their shoes, I think [it happens]," Joshua told iFL TV. "It's an undisputed fight, of course. This is what the heavyweight division has been about for the last four or five years, so I hope they can get it on but I don't really want to talk about it.

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"My name's spoken about a lot, I don't need to speak about anyone else. That's not what a man does. Good luck to both. I just can't be bothered talking about other people's business and stuff like that. I have my own opinion but I don't want to be discussing that on camera for everyone else to have an opinion on my opinion."

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Joshua and Fury have been linked to fight each other for several years, with the domestic fight almost coming to fruition two years ago when they signed a deal to fight in Saudi Arabia that later fell through. 'AJ' is set to fight in the UK for the first time since losing his belts to Usyk as he faces Jermaine Franklin on April 1 at The O2 arena, a fight that he is confident can set up a long-awaited clash against Deontay Wilder.

Anthony Joshua refused to give a prediction for Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk (PA)

Wilder was on course to face Joshua when both men were dominating the heavyweight title picture. The four-belt unification fight fizzled out as Joshua turned down a whopping $50million offer to face the American in Las Vegas, according to Wilder's manager Shelly Finkel. Joshua is tired of discussing the fight between the two knockout artists but thinks it will happen in due course.

"I feel like it's another conversation that we don't have to have because it will happen, I think it's been long overdue as the conversation has been going on for a long time. When it does [happen] it does and it will. I don't need to sit here and talk about it because I've been in that realm before, but when it materialises it will happen and I'm confident in that," he said.

Harry Davies