Fury wants British heavyweight clash with Joshua after comeback fight

Tyson Fury wants to fight Anthony Joshua in a long-awaited clash of British former heavyweight world champions if ​he wins his comeback against Canada-based Russian Arslanbek Makhmudov ‌in London on Saturday.

Fury, 37, has come out of retirement for the fifth time in his career to get back into the ring at ​the Tottenham Hotspur stadium and is looking well beyond ​the weekend.

“I’ve got Arslanbek Makhmudov to think of on ⁠Saturday night, but all going well (Joshua is) the fight I ​want next,” he told BBC radio on Wednesday.

“I know he just ​had his fight with Jake Paul, whatever… a fight’s a fight, really. So yeah, I’ll be ready for that straight away after this.”

Joshua, 36, ​last fought in December when he dealt American Jake Paul ​a reality check with a savage sixth round knockout in Miami.

A few days after ‌that, ⁠the former WBA, IBF and WBO champion was taken to hospital in Nigeria following a car accident that killed two close friends.

American former WBC world champion Deontay Wilder has also called ​out Joshua for a ​long-awaited matchup after ⁠beating Briton Derek Chisora on a split-decision last Saturday.

Fury, who has not fought since losing to ​Ukraine’s reigning world champion Oleksandr Usyk in December ​2024, ⁠dismissed the idea of that happening.

“I’ve never seen two men slide as much as these two,” he said of the Wilder v ⁠Chisora ​bout. “They look like a couple of club ​fighters from a white-collar match in a local leisure centre. It was sad ​for me to watch.”

-Reuters

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