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Tyson Fury talks up all-British fight with Anthony Joshua

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Published 4 months ago

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.

[p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/fury-tyson/MDZyQvA1/"]Fury[/a], 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.[/p][p][b]"I've got [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/makhmudov-arslanbek/beqHf2uL/"]Arslanbek Makhmudov[/a] to think of on Saturday night, but ‌all going well ([a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/joshua-anthony/WnlqLAvo/"]Joshua[/a] is) the fight ⁠I want next," ‌he told [i]BBC[/i] radio on Wednesday.[/b][/p][p][b]"I know he just ​had his fight with [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/paul-jake/6XLCxtih/"]Jake Paul[/a], whatever... a fight's a fight, really. So ​yeah, I'll be ready for that straight away after this."[/b][/p][embed guid="4d67fb41-2a59-4d60-8098-4800b88756d7" url="https://x.com/BBCSport/status/2041980784454615256" social-type="twitter" /][p]Joshua, 36, last fought in December ⁠when he dealt ​American Jake Paul a reality check with a savage sixth-round knockout in Miami.[/p][p][b]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.[/b][/p][p]American former WBC world champion [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/wilder-deontay/rTtMi1OG/"]Deontay Wilder[/a] has also called out Joshua for a long-awaited matchup after beating Briton [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/chisora-derek/IwUAkOTs/"]Derek Chisora[/a] on a split-decision last Saturday.[/p][p]Fury, who has not fought since losing to Ukraine's reigning world champion [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/usyk-olexandr/nqbF7L5K/"]‌Oleksandr Usyk[/a] in December 2024, dismissed the ​idea of that happening.[/p][p][b]"I've never seen two ‌men slide as much as these two," he said of the Wilder vs 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."[/b][/p]

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