Tyson Fury puts his win over Wladimir Klitschko ahead of Anthony Joshua’s after fearing Olympic champ would get beat and miss their mega-money showdown
TYSON FURY reckons his win over Wladimir Klitschko was better than Anthony Joshua’s and admits he feared a loss for AJ would cost him £30million.
Fury travelled to Germany in November 2015 and danced around the decade-long champion, long before AJ had to climb off the canvas to win in Wembley
Tyson Fury is keen for a mega-money fight with fellow Brit Anthony JoshuaGetty Images
Tyson Fury is training in Spain with Billy-Joe Saunders in SpainInstagram @gypsyking101Tyson Fury became the Dancing King as took time out from his training campInstagram @gypsyking101Tyson Fury was quick to call out anthony Joshua as he eyes on one of the biggest fights in the history of British heavyweight boxingPA:Press AssociationDespite being inactive after his troubles out of the ring, Tyson Fury is desperate for a return to the big timeGetty Images
Speaking to British Boxers, Fury explained how aging Klitschko came unstuck; “He’s 41, it’s a young man’s game, if Klitschko wasn’t 41 he’d definitely beat him.
“A win’s a win, but 100 per cent Wladimir would have beat him.
“My win over him was a lot better, a better boxing display. He never hit me, but he hit AJ with a million punches and nearly knocked him out.
"He definitely did expose him. I hope Eddie Hearn protects Joshua, because the first decent man he fights who’s not 41 beats him.
“Deontay Wilder, Joseph Parker, any one of these bums would beat him.
"I thought Joshua was getting knocked out in the fifth round, I was almost crying, I thought he was gonna cost me 20 or 30 million quid.
"I would have dropped a cannon of water on him to wake him up. Wladimir was trying to box cautiously, as he usually is, and he ran out of steam.”
Fury has been lying about and growing obese wince that brilliant night in Dusseldorf – racked by mental health problems he coul;d not bob and weave away from.
But he insists ring rust will not be a problem if he gets his shot at AJ with April 2018 the rumoured timeframe.
He said: "I don’t think this layoff will affect me.
“Wladimir is 41, was out for 17 months and it didn’t affect him, did it? He almost beat a big bodybuilder.”
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Fury will apparently return on July 8 on the undercard of fellow traveller and friend Billy Joe Saunders who fights Avtandil Khurtsidze.
But he is staying at their training camp in Spain, away from home comforts and distractions, as he tries to rebuild his career.
Fury said: "I’m out here for the foreseeable future, running, doing circuits, padwork, sparring.
“ I’ll be back on the July 8 Copper Box show headlined by Billy Joe Saunders..
"I’ll have a few comeback fights, two or three, while I’m waiting for Joshua. There’s no money in anybody else, I want ‘Mr Muscles’.
"I can be the best Tyson Fury again, it didn’t slip away, I just couldn’t be bothered no more, it was s*** and I didn’t value it, but now there’s £30m involved.
“I was a shadow of my former glory but now I’m on my way back. With me and Joshua, one looks the part, one is the part."
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