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It remains to be seen whether Joshua fights again, after hinting at a major 2026 in the ring. Ahead of his return fight against Paul, reports began circulating online that Fury and ‘AJ’ could go head-to-head next summer. The ‘Gypsy King’ retired back in January after back-to-back defeats to Oleksandr Usyk, but has been teasing a stunning comeback ever since.<\/p>\n
The pair have traded barbs on several occasions over the last few years, but a showdown has never materialised. Just moments after his win over Paul, Joshua quickly grabbed the microphone and called for a fight with his foe. “First of all, I want to give love to the crowd that came out. I really do appreciate everyone in this venue. Look, it was not the best performance. It was not the best. The end goal was to get Jake Paul… pin him down and hurt him,” Joshua began. “That has been the request leading up and that was on my mind. It took a little longer than expected, but the right hand finally found the destination. Now, Jake Paul… he has done really well tonight.<\/p>\n
“I want to give him his props. He got up. Time and time again. It was difficult in there for him, but he kept on trying to find a way. It takes a real man to do that. Anyone who laces up those gloves, we always say we give them their respect. We have to give Jake his respect for trying and trying and trying. Well done. But… he came up against a real fighter tonight that’s had a 15 month lay-off. We shook off the cobwebs and I cannot wait to roll into 2026.<\/p>\n
“And if Tyson Fury is as serious as he thinks he is, and he wants to put down his Twitter fingers and put on some gloves and come out and fight one of the realest fighters that will take on any challenge. Step in the ring with me next if you are a real bad boy. Don’t do all of that talking ‘AJ this, AJ that.’ Let’s see you in the ring and talk with your fists.”<\/p>\n
Both Joshua and Fury were at each other’s throats ahead of the former’s fight with Paul after the ‘Gypsy King’ branded ‘AJ’ “classless” after he said he could kill the YouTuber-turned-boxer. \u201cI\u2019ve just been sent a video of Anthony Joshua talking about, \u2018If he kills somebody, he\u2019d kill somebody in a boxing ring’,” he said. \u201cI think he\u2019s a little bit long in the tooth to be talking s***e like that. He\u2019s 37 years old, at the end of his career fighting a YouTuber, a Disney Channel guy who (Tyson’s brother) Tommy beat.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd now he\u2019s talking about killing him and all that to try and sell the fight. He’s barking up the wrong tree, idiot. Here\u2019s a fun fact, if I ever come across you, bum, I\u2019m knocking you dead spark out. I ain\u2019t a YouTuber or a man half your size, I am him, the man. You\u2019re a classless loser, coming off a 15-month knockout defeat to a local lad. Imagine if someone from Morecambe knocked me out. You big bum, useless dosser. And I can\u2019t wait if Jake Paul knocks you spark out you big bum.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua’s long-time rival Tyson Fury has broken his silence after the former two-time heavyweight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}