Tyson Fury sends message to Anthony Joshua after Daniel Dubois loss

Tyson Fury has played down the value of Anthony Joshua’s decision to Daniel Dubois, claiming helium could besides person been connected the receiving extremity of the daze decision astatine Wembley.

Dubois pulled disconnected an upset successful beforehand of 96,000 radical connected Saturday nighttime arsenic helium demolished Joshua successful 5 rounds.

Joshua was the beardown favourite to bushed Dubois successful the archetypal defence of his IBF heavyweight title, but has present faced calls to discontinue from boxing aft taking specified dense punishment from the 27-year-old.

Fury, however, has dismissed suggestions that Joshua should measurement distant from the athletics and believes recognition should beryllium fixed to Dubois for his performance.

‘He did a precise bully occupation and just play to young Dan,’ Fury, who was sat ringside astatine Wembley, said aft the fight.

‘Everybody wrote him off, you know. Coming present helium was the satellite champion and everybody dainty him similar helium was a bum and helium showed what he’s made of and it’s precise bully for him, fantastic, just play.

‘It’s heavyweight boxing, it happens, you get knocked spark out, it could’ve been me, could’ve been you, could’ve been anybody, successful the heavyweight part that’s what happens, 1 punch from being smashed, knocked out.

‘I deliberation what went incorrect [for Joshua] is what ever goes incorrect successful heavyweight boxing, a bully right-hander connected the extremity of the chin, and that was it.’

Asked if Joshua tin travel backmost from his decision to Dubois, Fury replied: ‘I don’t know, it’s up to the man, immoderate helium wants to do.

‘If he’s got a bully ambition to travel backmost and bash what he’s got to do.

‘I thought it was a 50-50 fight, Dubois is simply a batch younger, 27-year-old, the different antheral is 34, aforesaid property arsenic me, property don’t hold for anybody does it?

‘Listen, you get caught with those punches, you don’t spot galore heavyweights get hit, get knocked down, get backmost up and proceed connected bash you?’

Asked for his plans for the Usyk combat successful December, Fury replied: ‘I’ve got to combat my antheral and I’m going to instrumentality each my belts backmost erstwhile again, warrant you.

‘I’ll get that [the IBF title] backmost arsenic well. When I combat Usyk successful December and bushed him, I’ll get each the belts I should ne'er person mislaid and past I’ll combat Dubois and instrumentality it disconnected him arsenic well.’

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