{"id":787882,"date":"2026-09-30T22:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T22:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/787882\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T22:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T22:30:11","slug":"quips-slights-and-a-surprise-twist-anthony-joshua-and-tyson-fury-come-face-to-face-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/787882\/","title":{"rendered":"Quips, slights and a surprise twist: Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury come face to face | Boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthony Joshua has revealed that he is in contact with Tyson Fury\u2019s uncle Peter, in a surprise twist to the buildup between the two former world champion heavyweights who will finally meet in the ring in Cardiff<\/a> in December.<\/p>\n

Peter Fury trained Tyson when he shocked Wladimir Klitschko to win his first world heavyweight title<\/a>, in 2015. The uncle and nephew fell out soon afterwards, apparently over a financial dispute, and have not spoken in many years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI speak to Peter Fury,\u201d Joshua said before the fight\u2019s first press conference on Wednesday evening in London. \u201cHe\u2019s willing to help me as well. Yeah, I\u2019ll speak to him [before I fight Tyson Fury].\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if he can learn more about Fury from his uncle, Joshua said: \u201cNot about Fury but about our training and how I can approach the fight. This is where I can improve. Everybody\u2019s going to tell me how to win. But the most important person to listen to is myself at this point in my career.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joshua said he last spoke to Peter Fury about a month ago. \u201cI speak to Matty Harris [the British heavyweight whom Fury Sr trains] quite a lot. Matty Harris comes down for some sparring. That\u2019s how it all comes about. Through Matty and Peter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ben Davison will train Joshua for the fight and he, too, has also worked previously with Fury. Davison helped Fury to return to boxing in 2018, after the fighter had been out of the ring with drink and drug problems for three years following his defeat of Klitschko.<\/p>\n

Fury seemed initially taken aback when he was told that Davison will be in Joshua\u2019s corner. In seemingly genuine surprise, Fury asked: \u201cIs it confirmed? Is he gonna have him?\u201d He paused and then turned to Frank Warren, who has promoted him for years and said, in deadpan style: \u201cThat\u2019s deflating, isn\u2019t it, Frank? It is deflating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fury soon made clear that his last comment was a joke: \u201cDon\u2019t forget I left Ben Davison to go with SugarHill [Steward] because he wasn\u2019t good enough and this is the same Ben Davison who Anthony Joshua<\/a> left because he wasn\u2019t good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peter Fury (left) trained Tyson Fury when he shocked Wladimir Klitschko in 2015. Photograph: Lee Smith\/Reuters<\/p>\n

After Joshua was dropped numerous times and then stopped by Daniel Dubois<\/a> in September 2024, he switched from Davison to work with Oleksandr Usyk\u2019s team. Fury, who was in a cheerful mood, said: \u201cWhen he got knocked out by Dubois it was the same Ben Davison who everyone said: \u2018Oh, he\u2019s this, he\u2019s that \u2026\u2019 Now they\u2019re going back to him?<\/p>\n

\u201cSo that gives me encouragement. That gives me happiness. [Joshua] will probably go out there, get told to throw a jab and throw an uppercut and get himself chinned.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joshua stressed that \u201cit wasn\u2019t so much going to Ben and Peter because they have worked with Fury before\u201d, saying: \u201cThe reason why I went with Ben is because he and his team pinpoint things. [Against Dubois] there are things I could have done better so I won\u2019t put all that blame on Ben.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat I\u2019ve got to do is take control of my fight with Fury, but also add their touch. And with these two powerhouses coming together, I think it will be a match made in heaven. Ben and his team are very good at pinpointing certain things leading up to a fight that I can execute and exploit. I believe that they will get me that one step closer to landing the perfect punch to pin Fury to the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the press conference Joshua called for a minute\u2019s silence, which was impeccably observed, when he remembered the close friends he had lost<\/a> over the past 10 months. Unexpectedly, Fury then spoke respectfully about Joshua as they shared the stage. But Fury did insist that: \u201cI\u2019m going to blast him out. I\u2019m going to catch him and when I do it\u2019s going to be curtains.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joshua smiled, saying: \u201cI don\u2019t expect anything else from this man than him saying he\u2019s going to render me unconscious.\u201d He then laughed when Fury quipped: \u201cThis man is built like an Adonis, I\u2019m built like a blancmange.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fury turned to Joshua and said: \u201cI hope after this fight we can have a pint of Guinness together.\u201d Joshua paused and then said: \u201cI don\u2019t know if I can trust you.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the traditional face-off between the two men passed peacefully and calmly, for both fighters know that none of the intrigue and wisecracks will matter when the first bell rings and they leave their corners to face each other and fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua has revealed that he is in contact with Tyson Fury\u2019s uncle Peter, in a surprise twist…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-787882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787882","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=787882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}