It would be nothing but suicidal for Anthony Joshua (AJ) to duel against Tyson Fury following two after successive defeats to Oleksandr Usyk.
Fury had in a video clip on Monday offered to fight in a ‘battle of Britain’ for the WBC heavyweight championship of the world before the end of the year.
But a boxing correspondent with The Telegraph of London, Gareth Davies, believed Fury’s offer was nothing but a Greek Gift for obvious reasons.
“It would be unwise now for Anthony Joshua to accept a fight with Tyson Fury,” Davies declared.“ It might look like a chance to get into the title picture again, but in reality, the timing is all wrong for a fighter who is licking his wounds after successive defeats to Oleksandr Usyk.”
He continued: “Joshua has questions to answer – about where he goes from here, whether he stays with new trainer Robert Garcia, and how he recovers physically and emotionally from that hugely disappointing experience in the Middle East.
“To go into camp in just a few weeks’ time for a December fight with Fury would be madness.”
Davies further claimed that Fury might just be going on ego tripping on the social media hence calling out Joshua, adding there is more to the offer than meet the eyes.
He added inter alia : “There is an element of game playing here, of course.
“Fury is a master of promotional teases and calling out Joshua on his social media was the ‘Gypsy King’ simply putting the boot in on his British rival by intimating that he wants to keep busy until he fights Usyk for the undisputed title, probably in 2023, after the Ukrainian has recovered from injuries he sustained in the Joshua fight.”