After attempts to negotiate matches with his opponents failed in recent years, Tyson Fury has questioned whether Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua still want to confront him.
Even though Usyk is said to have agreed to a 70-30 purse split in Fury’s favor, negotiations for an undisputed heavyweight fight against him collapsed early this year.
Usyk’s promoter Alex Krassyuk accused Fury of putting too many obstacles in the way of an agreement.
The fight would have been held at Wembley Stadium in the UK during April.
The camps of Fury and Joshua had previously discussed a heavyweight fight between just British fighters. Fury made multiple public dates for a fight to be agreed upon, but a deal was never finalized.
Fury said he still wants to fight Usyk and Joshua when speaking at a Tenerife event, but he questioned whether they would be interested in doing so.
‘I’d love it to happen, love it to happen,’ Fury said, as reported by Boxing Social. ‘I’d love to fight Oleksandr Usyk and AJ, but I just don’t think they want to fight me,’ he said.
‘There’s a lot of stuff going on in Saudi Arabia with all these massive amounts of money being talked about and I think that got the better of him [Usyk].
‘The temptation of a hundred million or 75 million down the line rather than doing it now [in the UK].
‘I don’t think anybody’s scared of anybody in a boxing match. The [Usyk] fight’s got to happen; it’s got to happen this year.
‘I just think it’s an easy job. I’ll hit him; he’ll hit the floor, then I’ll go out and get drunk in the town centre.’