Tyson Fury has told his father John to “sever ties” with Anthony Joshua. The Gypsy King jokingly claimed that the pair are ‘best friends’ after exchanging complimentary words about each other over the years.
AJ has always maintained that he likes John and even claimed he would be up for having a pint with him one day. But Fury is not best pleased by the niceties.
He told iFL TV: “He keeps blowing my dad off like, ‘Oh, I think John Fury’s a legend, he’s a top bloke.’ Whatever you’ve got going on with him, I don’t like it. Sever ties with the old p****. Man’s a p****, s***house.
“All of a sudden he’s my dad’s best friend, ‘Oh, I want to go out for a drink with John Fury’. I was like what the f***! Why doesn’t he want to go for a drink with me? Because I would punch him in the mouth.”
“He’s given us a lot of pleasurable nights, he has been a good world champion and let me tell you something, if the kid gives me props, I can only thank him can’t I?
“I’d only be a p***k to say anything else wouldn’t I? But I am me, my son is him, I know my son is the best in the world by a country mile, but it don’t stop me liking anybody and AJ is a likeable guy ain’t he?”
Fury is now expected to face Oleksandr Usyk in the first undisputed heavyweight unification clash of the four-belt era. According to Usyk’s promoter, Alexander Krassyuk, the fight is being targeted for a date between February 18 and March 4 in the Middle East.