Tyson Fury believes both he and British rival Anthony Joshua have changed the heavyweight landscape for Britain’s rising prospects; Fury stills eyes a future stadium fight at Old Trafford: “Never say never”; plus Scott Welch considers the pros and cons of Fury vs Ngannou.
Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua find common ground in few aspects.
It’s clear they won’t be arriving at a consensus to fight each other anytime in the near future. Yet, Fury holds the belief that they’ve paved a way for other British heavyweight boxers to follow suit.
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“We’ve provided them with substantial goals to aspire to, with the likes of AJ and myself,” Fury shared with Sky Sports.
“We’ve instilled a lot of optimism that it’s achievable. Prior to my world championship victory, the history of British boxing had only witnessed around five or six heavyweight world champions.”
All of a sudden we had a few more of late,” he continued. “A lot of highly ranked world heavyweights. I think we’ve inspired a lot of people and hopefully they can go on and continue to do well in the division.
But while he acknowledges how capable some of the UK’s rising heavyweights are, he doesn’t see any of them rivalling him or Joshua just yet.
“I think we’ve got a lot of talent. Young David Adeleye, Solomon Dacres, Johnny Fisher, Frazer Clarke, Nathan Gorman, Daniel Dubois,” Fury said. “There’s a lot of red hot talent coming through in this country especially.