TYSON FURY has warned Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder their undisputed clash will mean “f*** all” unless they dethrone the Gypsy King.
The 31-year-old’s sensational shock 2015 heavyweight win over Wladimir Klitschko made the 6ft 9in showman the biggest star in the sport.
Fury says Wilder and Joshua’s undisputed fight means nothing till they beat him
But his dramatic fall from grace and brief retirement let AJ gather up his old WBA, IBF and WBO belts and left the Bronze Bomber with the WBC.
A meeting between the two would decide the first undisputed champion in 20 years, when Brit legend Lennox Lewis last gathered up every available strap.
But Fury – recently labelled a “liar” by Joshua – meticulously explains exactly how their different paths to the top leave him the king of the mountain.
Fury said: “Undisputed heavyweight champion means f*** all, it means nothing. I am already the main man.
“When I beat Klitschko he was the main man, no ifs, buts or maybes, when I beat him I became the main man.
“I have done that and am the only active heavyweight around who can say he beat the main man in the division, the top guy, the rest have not.
“Wilder beat Bermane Stiverne, on his first defence of the belt, not that good.
“Joshua beat Charles Martin, who won his title on a default and should probably never have been a world champion.
“He had the IBF title because they stripped me of it within five days of winning it and gave it to someone else.”
Fury has a point with both rivals but AJ now has a sensational record, barring his shock loss to Andy Ruiz Jr last June.
And undefeated Wilder’s 42-0-1 career has an incredible 41 knockouts that have put him in the conversation of history’s heaviest puncher.
Fury could have lost the prime years of his life with his 30-month hiatus, before he beat his demons in 2018, and the 31-year-old insists he only has three more fights before retiring.
But he believes he will be the era-defining heavyweight if Wilder or Joshua do not snatch his mythical crown with a win.
He said: “I became world champion by beating a guy with 26 world title defences, who had gone unbeaten for 11 years, in his own country and backyard.
“I am the man to beat and none of these other guys can claim to be ‘The Man’ of our era until they beat me. And that is not easy to do as I have proved in the past.
“I am the man in the division to beat, and they will never be the best of their era until they beat the gypsy king.”
Fury and Wilder rematch on February 22 and a trilogy showdown is expected for the summer, freezing AJ out for another year.
But the Watford hero is planning a cheeky offer to get his heavy hands on the green and gold belt that has so far eluded him.
Josh said: “I heard they have a third fight lined up towards the end of the year but we have to throw a curveball in there.
“Something that gets Wilder’s attention, providing he wins, so that he thinks to himself: ‘Even though I have a rematch clause, I’ll see how I can manipulate my contract, get out of it, and fight for the undisputed championship’.
“Everyone wants Wilder to win because a fight with me is what everyone wants to see.
“Wilder has a great right hand, I have a great left hand. It is a great boxing match. We had a meeting about that. It has great potential.”
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Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
