{"id":165867,"date":"2025-09-28T11:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T11:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/165867\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T11:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T11:41:07","slug":"57-year-old-former-world-champion-says-he-could-still-ko-fury-usyk-and-joshua-easy-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/165867\/","title":{"rendered":"57 Year Old Former World Champion Says He Could Still KO Fury, Usyk And Joshua: &#8220;Easy Work&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One former world champion has little respect for the achievements of modern heavyweight elite, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/tyson-fury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyson Fury<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/oleksandr-usyk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/anthony-joshua\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Joshua<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Between them, there is nothing these three titans haven\u2019t achieved. Tyson Fury was the first to pick up a world title belt when he beat Wladimir Klitschko on away soil back in 2015, with Joshua also claiming world honours the following year.<\/p>\n<p>While Fury spent time away battling mental health demons, \u2018AJ\u2019 went on to become a unified world champion, and though he lost his belts to Andy Ruiz, he won them back in the rematch. However, he later lost his belts to Usyk in 2021 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/62612531\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">failed to win them back in their rematch in 2022.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Fury beat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/deontay-wilder\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deontay Wilder<\/a> twice to become and remain WBC world champion before also stopping Dillian Whyte and Derek Chisora.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/oleksandr-usyk-tyson-fury-rematch-report\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">He and Usyk then came together in May 2024 for an undisputed fight, which Usyk won, with the rematch last December going the same way<\/a> and making the Ukrainian the first man to ever become a two-time undisputed heavyweight champion in the four-belt era.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that somebody isn\u2019t impressed with all those achievements though, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ycmkPbFN1gQ&amp;t=235s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">speaking to Boxing King Media<\/a>, boxing legend James Toney was asked if he thought he could beat any of the men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of them. Easy work. We train, it would be easy work, trust me. I would still knock all those motherf***ers out. Period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toney was famous for his shoulder roll defence and also for winning multiple world championships in three weight classes at middleweight, super middleweight and cruiserweight titles.<\/p>\n<p>He also challenged twice for a world heavyweight title in 2005 and 2006 before retiring in 2017 with 77 wins from 92 bouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One former world champion has little respect for the achievements of modern heavyweight elite, Tyson Fury, Oleksandr Usyk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-165867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}