Anthony Joshua on Tyson Fury: ‘This would be the worst era in history if we hide from each other’

Anthony Joshua

ANTHONY JOSHUA speaks exclusively to John Dennen about his exhilirating career in this weekโ€™s issue of Boxing News magazine. This is out now on our app and the print version is in stores on Thursday (August 18). Here is an excerpt:

Ultimately in boxing fighters will be judged on who they fight and how they perform. Joshua knows that.

โ€œPeople want me to fight Tyson Fury next,โ€ Joshua reflected. โ€œBut weโ€™re in a position where we can but we donโ€™t have to. So while Furyโ€™s doing what heโ€™s doing, Iโ€™m still going to progress. So when that time comes, Iโ€™ll be ready. Iโ€™m not going to sit down and wait for these guys to fight. Iโ€™ve got to keep active as well.

โ€œHeโ€™s committed to fight Wladimir Klitschko, [but] itโ€™s a fight I would like. In the meanwhile Iโ€™m just going to keep continuing my own journey and wait for us to collide at some stage. It will happen, come on, it has to, and I say exactly like this: every era has heavyweights and every era the heavyweights have to come together and fight. And this is just our era right now. So we canโ€™t hide from each other. This would be the worst era in history if that was the case. You are who you fight. So weโ€™ll fight, we will get it on.โ€

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