Joyce: Fury And Usyk Will Get Juggernauted
Joe Joyce is waiting in the wings for Oleksandr Usyk or Tyson Fury; he would step in to fight either of them next:
Joyce says “It’s a good back-up plan; I’m confident in my abilities. I really like the sound of the Fury fight… Can you imagine? Undefeated, undisputed. Maybe”
No one has a greater interest in following the developments of the Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk negotiations than London heavyweight Joe Joyce.
Fury, the WBC title holder, and Usyk, the WBO, WBA and IBF champion, have sparred verbally as they close in on a deal to fight for the undisputed heavyweight crown on April 29.
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Of the champions’ mandatory challengers, Joyce is arguably the leading contender. He has previously beaten Daniel Dubois as a professional and has also defeated Filip Hrgovic in the World Series of Boxing when he was amateur.
Mostly recently he knocked out Joseph Parker in stunning fashion.
“Great fight though, a lot of respect to Parker, he proper pushed me all the way to the end. It was an exciting fight, it had good exchanges.
“I threw the kitchen sink, everything at him and eventually he went down.”
Like the rest of the sporting world he has been observing the progress of the Fury-Usyk negotiations.
“It’s kind of dragging on a bit, “Fury’s got 70 per cent of it the proposed fight purse, I guess it’s happening now.” Joyce said
Joyce thinks Fury has enough time to prepare for April 29. “He’s started camp, I would imagine Usyk’s already in camp, Maybe he knows something we don’t.”
Tyson Fury says he will fight Joe Joyce at Wembley if an undisputed world heavyweight fight with Oleksandr Usyk doesn’t materialise.
The likeable Londoner would happily to step in to fight either Fury or Usyk for a heavyweight world championship, even at short notice.
Possibly, he hinted. “I guess it’s a good back-up plan.”
More likely though Joyce will be pushing for his shot at the Fury-Usyk winner.
“At last. That would be something, wouldn’t it?
“There’s been a lot of rematch clauses of late. They drag on, don’t they? It’s quite refreshing to hear that there isn’t one for this fight. I can jump in afterwards, fight the winner.” he added.
Though he lost to Usyk in the World Series of Boxing, he’d prefer to pit himself against Fury.
“Usyk, I wouldn’t mind fighting again either. But Fury’s a bigger fight,”
“They’re going to get ‘Juggernauted’,” he declared.
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