Anthony Joshua gave blunt response to prospect of fight with Mike Tyson

Anthony Joshua antecedently poured acold h2o connected the imaginable of challenging Mike Tyson successful the boxing ring, admitting he'd bask small restitution successful defeating the sporting icon

Anthony Joshua erstwhile admitted his reluctance to combat Mike Tyson - claiming the assemblage would boo if helium coiled up victorious.

Tyson - who remains the youngest combatant to triumph the heavyweight title of the satellite astatine 20 years of property - is returning to the squared ellipse adjacent Friday (November 15) erstwhile helium yet shares the ringing with Jake Paul.

The 58-year-old's boxing homecoming has divided sentiment crossed the sporting world, with galore believing that entering the ringing with a combatant 30 years his junior could beryllium to person devastating consequences.

Unlike Paul, 1 antheral who has refused to entertain the conception of taking connected Tyson is Joshua, who squashed immoderate imaginable rumours of the 2 behemoths coming to blows erstwhile asked astir it successful 2020.

Joshua told The Sun: "With each owed respect I wouldn’t. Even if I fought Iron Mike and bushed him, I deliberation I’d beryllium the lone 1 cheering. People would boo. He is simply a legend.

"He is the top boxer of the modern era. There are lone 2 recognised champions the world knows of, Ali and Mike Tyson - the astir recognised faces successful the satellite erstwhile it comes to boxing."

Joshua, 35, was chasing an all-British clash with Tyson Fury, which could hap adjacent year, astatine the time, and helium utilized the illustration of David Beckham to signifier an mentation of wherefore Tyson would instrumentality to the ringing contempt his age.

He added: "I spot it similar this — however aged is David Beckham, 44, 45? If you spot him successful 10 years kicking a ball, doing 100 kick-ups, a round-the-world and hitting the crossbar and past an overhead volley into the apical corner, radical would emotion it.

"But due to the fact that Mike Tyson is the embodiment of like, the sidesplitting machine, helium hits the pads for 15 seconds and the full satellite goes crazy, it is normal. It is what Tyson knows. But for him to fight... would you beryllium shocked if Beckham came back? You would. But for boxers, it’s each they know."

Despite Joshua's reluctance to combat Tyson, the New Yorker doesn't harbour the aforesaid absorption and alternatively showed his excitement to instrumentality connected the Brit successful 2020, albeit successful a foundation exhibition.

The anticipation was brought up erstwhile Tyson was speaking to iFL TV to which helium replied: "I would emotion to bash that. That would beryllium mind-blowing."