Tyson Fury insists a Anthony Joshua combat announcement is NOT imminent, however his UK co-promoter Frank Warren has informed talkSPORT in any other case.
Fury and Joshua’s camps have been in talks for months over an all-British heavyweight undisputed showdown this summer season.
Fury, although, has poured water on recommendations that the combat is near being formally confirmed.
“Let’s break it down. Eddie Hearn is a boxing promoter. So is Bob Arum. It’s their job to promote a combat,” he informed iFL TV.
“Joshua is saying what he’s saying, I’m not on social media in the meanwhile in any respect. So no matter they’re saying could be very unimportant to me.
“Till I’ve acquired a combat, a date and hell of some huge cash in my pocket, there isn’t a combat. There’s plenty of issues occurring that folks don’t find out about behind the scenes that may scupper a combat like that.
“So nothing is definitely on till you might be within the ring. So yeah, we’re nowhere close to that in the meanwhile.”
He added: “Will I be combating Joshua within the subsequent ten minutes? No. Do I feel the combat will ultimately occur? Sure, it has to occur.
“Do I feel it’s subsequent or imminent? No. I’m not going to carry my breath for it, that’s for certain.
“I’m not going to place all my eggs in a single basket as a result of I’ve been responsible of doing that earlier than and, when the combat doesn’t occur, that’s after I find yourself in an enormous despair and really feel like killing myself.
“I’m not going to say ‘it’s positively taking place in June or July’”.
Fury hasn’t fought since toppling Deontay Wilder over a 12 months in the past to assert the WBC belt.
He had insisted he was not excited about going through the American for a 3rd time, however has now carried out a U-turn and stated Wilder might properly be his subsequent opponent.
“I’ve two fights this 12 months and I don’t give a f*** if they’re with, Joe Bloggs, Fred Flintstone, Mike Tyson, anyone. I simply need to combat this 12 months,” he stated.
“Don’t write Wilder out of the equation subsequent, I could possibly be having the trilogy combat with him but.
“There’s a lot occurring behind the scenes and Wilder could possibly be subsequent.”
Fury additionally claimed in his interview with IFL that he’s presently consuming as much as ’12 pints a day’.
“I’ve stopped coaching in the meanwhile, I’m on vacation. I’m consuming something between eight, ten, 12 pints of lager a day, on the minute,” Fury claimed.
“However I’m not consuming so I get my energy by alcohol.
“I’ve skilled and skilled and skilled with no progress so I’m now a person of leisure.”
He additionally insisted he’ll NEVER combat within the UK once more, declaring: “The celebrity of world boxing is not going to field in small halls anymore. My new house is in Las Vegas.
“I intend to remain there and finish my profession over there.”
Regardless of Fury’s claims, a combat with Joshua – the most important in British boxing historical past – continues to be anticipated to occur in 2021.
The ‘Gypsy King’ is well-known for throwing reporters off the mark.
Frank Warren – Fury’s promoter – joined talkSPORT on Thursday and, whereas admitting his fighter is ‘peed off’, insisted the AJ combat will go forward.
“We’ve all agreed to announce any information concurrently, so I can’t break a confidence I’ve agreed to,” he informed White and Jordan.
“However what I can say is that every thing is agreed, it’s an imminent announcement and we’ve set to work on a web site, and that’s it.
“It’s completely transferring in the best course and all people is on the identical web page. No person is extra pissed off than the fighters and us, we’ve labored such as you can’t consider to get this over the road.
“I feel Tyson is a bit peed off about it as a result of it’s dragging on and on and on. Hopefully all people will probably be getting the excellent news quickly, they’ll be glad and everybody can extra onto the subsequent stage of this, which is to get this web site sorted out.
“We hope it doesn’t occur later, we’re working laborious to get it completed sooner quite than later.
“The contracts are agreed and they are going to be signed, 100 per cent, I’m assured of that. By the tip of the week? I hope so!”
