Tyson Fury hasn't defended his WBC and lineal heavyweight titles against Dillian Whyte, and he's making predictions about another championship fight in his division.
After his media workout ahead of Saturday's clash against Dillian Whyte, the Brit was asked who would win the probable rematch between three-belt titlist Oleksandr Usyk and former two-time unified champion Anthony Joshua. Fury was quick to say Usyk would emerge victorious and went on to say it'd be the last time his fellow Englishman would compete.
“Here’s how it goes. You’ve heard it here first. He’s going to get busted by Usyk in the rematch - if he even has the guts to take it," Fury told The Sun.
"Then he’s finished, career over. Three losses, goodnight Vienna, got beat by a middleweight, move over."
Before Fury-Whyte became official, talks were ongoing between the Fury and Usyk camps to make an undisputed heavyweight title fight with the Joshua and Whyte taking a step-aside fee. Fury thinks Joshua overpriced himself and now feels that if he gets past Whyte and "AJ" regains the belts from Usyk, he still wants nothing to do with Joshua.
“He had the opportunity to make it all go away and let me take care of his dirty washing and pay him money to do it, but he didn’t because greed got the better of him," Fury said.
"They thought I was a desperate man and that I wanted to fight for the undisputed title that much that I’d give away everything. The demands these people were making were ridiculous. Out of every negative situation, something positive has happened, and I’m smiling now like a Cheshire Cat.
“I couldn’t give one flying hoot sniff about that [Joshua] fight not happening. About that bodybuilder, I have no interest. When he was an unbeaten man, not a problem. When he was a champion, not a bother, but now he has nothing to offer. What did he say years ago? I only want to fight the people who have the belts. All of a sudden, he doesn’t have any belts.”