{"id":261655,"date":"2020-09-23T11:33:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T10:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=261655"},"modified":"2020-09-23T11:58:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T10:58:31","slug":"boxing-fury-fires-salvo-at-joshua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=261655","title":{"rendered":"BOXING: Fury fires salvo at Joshua"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has applied pressure on his domestic rival, Anthony Joshua, to bypass any further obligations that stand in the way of a 2021 showdown.
\n\u201cRather than fight all these mandatories he\u2019s got, I\u2019d say just vacate those belts and fight the fight everyone wants to see,\u201d Fury told Behind the Gloves.
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\n\u201cI ain\u2019t running from you, I don\u2019t care about you. I\u2019ll go through you like a knife through butter. Come and fight the big boy, step up to the plate and get knocked out. Then fight all those easy guys. No disrespect to Oleksandr Usyk \u2013 great fighter, cruiserweight world champion, probably going to be heavyweight champion if he fights Anthony Joshua \u2013 but don\u2019t take my retirement cheque, baby. Don\u2019t do it.
\n\u201cI said to Deontay Wilder years ago, \u2018do not take my retirement fund, do not fight Joshua, He\u2019s mine. He\u2019s my countryman, I\u2019m having him, I\u2019m breaking him in!\u2019 But it didn\u2019t happen. He got broke in by an unlikely suspect [in Andy Ruiz]. It was what it was. If they fight [Usyk will beat Joshua], but I bet they don\u2019t [fight]. Because why would he fight Usyk and get ten percent of what he can make off the Gypsy King.
\n\u201cVacate it, let them boys fight for the vacant [WBO] belt, whoever it is, Usyk and [Joseph] Parker. We\u2019re at the top of the game. We\u2019re in this boxing to fight the biggest fights out there. It\u2019s a boxing match, what\u2019s the worse that can happen? You can lose? Big deal.\u201d\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has applied pressure on his domestic rival, Anthony Joshua, to bypass any further obligations that stand in the way of a 2021 showdown. \u201cRather than fight all these mandatories he\u2019s got, I\u2019d say just vacate those belts and fight the fight everyone wants to see,\u201d Fury told Behind the Gloves. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2678,3],"tags":[897,8608],"class_list":["post-261655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-tyson-fury"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/261656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}