{"id":90765,"date":"2026-04-12T03:23:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/tyson-fury-threatens-to-get-fat-and-retire-again-if-anthony-joshua-wont-fight-its-either-him-or-im-gone\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T03:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:23:31","slug":"tyson-fury-threatens-to-get-fat-and-retire-again-if-anthony-joshua-wont-fight-its-either-him-or-im-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/tyson-fury-threatens-to-get-fat-and-retire-again-if-anthony-joshua-wont-fight-its-either-him-or-im-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury threatens to get fat and retire again if Anthony Joshua won't fight: 'It's either him or I'm gone'"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you weren\u2019t certain, Tyson Fury is making his next target clear. After his victorious comeback to the ring on Netflix<\/a>, it\u2019s Anthony Joshua or bust.<\/p>\n

Fury (35-2-1, 24 KOs) soundly outclassed Arslanbek Makhmudov (21-3, 19 KOs) on Saturday inside London\u2019s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, competing for the first time in 16 months and picking up his first win since late 2023. The performance, which concluded with a one-sided unanimous decision for the former world heavyweight champion, marked Fury\u2019s return from his fifth career retirement.<\/p>\n

Joshua was seated ringside to take in the action, and Fury wasted little time calling out his longtime rival following his victory. Joshua, however, refused multiple invitations to enter the ring and face off with Fury, and though he acknowledged some interest in a long-discussed bout against Fury, Joshua ultimately declined to commit to anything concrete on the Netflix broadcast \u2014 a decision that left Fury incensed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s another stumbling block again,\u201d Fury ranted in his post-fight press conference. \u201cIt\u2019s been 10 years in the making. Like, what\u2019s the holdup? He\u2019s just come off a win [over Jake Paul], knocked a man spark out , broke a man\u2019s jaw. I\u2018ve just come off a win. Let\u2019s get it on. He\u2019s 36 or 37, I\u2019m the same age. Let\u2019s fight. What\u2019s the holdup? It\u2019s not like, \u2018Oh, I want one up on you.\u2019 Why keep postponing these fights? This fight was supposed to happen years ago.<\/p>\n

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Tyson Fury (L) calls out Anthony Joshua (white shirt) to fight him next after Fury's win over Arslanbek Makhmudov.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cIf it ain\u2019t Anthony Joshua next, I\u2019m not interested in boxing,\u201d Fury continued. \u201cI\u2019ll eat a thousand Easter eggs, go up to 35 stone [490 pounds] \u2014 I\u2019m out. I\u2019m not interested. It\u2019s either him or I\u2019m gone again. I\u2019m not interested at all. I\u2019m not interested in up-and-comers. I\u2019m not interested in someone trying to prove a point over me. I don\u2019t care. I don\u2019t care about rankings, I don\u2019t care about belts. I only care now about AJ. That fight \u2014 that\u2019s the defining fight for British boxing. It\u2019s either going to happen or it\u2019s not.\u201d <\/p>\n

Fury, 37, went on to clarify that he has signed a three-fight deal for 2026 and hopes to make good on those three bouts, however he doubled down on his disinterest in facing anyone other than Anthony Joshua or boxing\u2019s current heavyweight king, Oleksandr Usyk, the latter of whom defeated Fury twice in 2024.<\/p>\n

Fury specifically named top heavyweight contenders Daniel Dubois and Moses Itauma as fights he has zero interest in, and claimed he\u2019s already signed a contract to fight Joshua in 2026. Fury\u2019s promoter, Queensberry\u2019s Frank Warren, backed up Fury\u2019s claim of the all-British mega-fight already being signed on their end, and asserted that Joshua is the lone party holding things up. Fury also said he does not care about details such as a purse split \u2014 he simply wants to make the fight happen before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n

\u201cTonight [Joshua] came here for the job, and I asked him to do the fight [in the ring], and he should have got in there and did it, but he didn\u2019t give an answer,\u201d Fury said. \u201cTo my opinion, he didn\u2019t want no smoke. He didn\u2019t want it. He didn\u2019t even look like he wanted it. He was just shell-shocked, he didn\u2019t know what to say. <\/p>\n

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\u201cHe came ringside to make a fight, and yeah, if it was me, I would\u2019ve jumped straight in that ring, faced off, let\u2019s get it on. Ten years in the making, and still, after all this time, there is still uncertainty about if this fight is going to happen next. I know<\/em> know. You can ask me, is it going to happen? Do I want it? Yes. But is it going to happen? I\u2019ve no idea.\u201d <\/p>\n

Fury vs. Joshua has long been one of the coveted bouts in all of heavyweight boxing. The fight has nearly come to fruition multiple times, only for negotiations to inevitably hit a snag before they cross the finish line.<\/p>\n

Regarding his own comeback performance, Fury admitted it took a couple of rounds Saturday night to really get going, but by the end of his latest return bout \u2014 which saw him outland Makhmudov on the total punch count 199-51 \u2014 Fury felt he was \u201cback to vintage Tyson Fury.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt felt unbelievable,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve been away 16 months and been a loser for 16 months, and before that I was a winner for 17 years. That takes some dealing with. I walked away, I was unhappy with the [Usyk] decisions, I thought I won the fights \u2014 I\u2019m not going to go there with all that bulls*** in 2026. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo I walked away and it was sad for me to go out losing, because I\u2019m not a loser. And to come back after all that time out, and the age of me as well, and everyone saying he can\u2019t do it, his legs are gone, he\u2019s got no speed, he can\u2019t boxing no more, he\u2019s at the tail-end of his career, twilight \u2014 all that there. And to come here and do 12 rounds \u2026 it was really, really, really great for me.\u201d <\/p>\n

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