All-British World Title: Tyson Fury asserts that in an effort to secure a WBC heavyweight title match, he has offered Anthony Joshua a 60-40 purse split.
Oleksandr Usyk, the WBA, WBO, and IBF champion, was Fury’s target for a clash in a unification fight at the end of 2022, but the Ukrainian was later shown to be unable to box this year, forcing Fury to shift his focus.
Since then, the 34-year-old has given Joshua, who dropped his rematch with Usyk last month, the chance to fight him before the end of 2022. On Tuesday, he updated his Twitter account with a video that further outlined his conditions.
60-40. pic.twitter.com/55eFxoJ5WH
— TYSON FURY (@Tyson_Fury) September 6, 2022
“I’m being bombarded with messages on how much I’m going to pay AJ,” Fury said. “Everyone is saying ’80-20, 70-30, 75-25′ – the actual answer is I’ve offered him 60-40.
“[That’s] 40 per cent of this amazing fight because I want this fight to happen. He doesn’t have any excuses now not to take it, he can’t say I’ve low-balled him or offered him 20 per cent or 30 per cent.
“I’ve offered the people 40 per cent – take it or leave it, let us know.”
Anthony Joshua had initially responded to Fury’s challenge by tweeting him to contact his management company along with vowing “I’ll be ready in December”.
Promoter Frank Warren for Fury had acknowledged that they were formally inviting Joshua to challenge for the WBC title as well.
“It’s us who have made the approach to give AJ a great opportunity to get himself back into the top level against the world champion Tyson,” Warren told talkSPORT.
“He’s willing to make that voluntary defence, so we’ll send the offer across today [Tuesday] and then they’ll have to look at it and decide whether they want to grab this with both hands.
“To his credit, he has come out saying that he’s up for it. I’m not bad-mouthing them or the other side, all we’re interested in doing is making this fight.”
The undefeated Fury earlier proclaimed his intention to retire from boxing after successfully defending his title against Dillian Whyte in April, which led Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn to question whether the offer is sincere.
If the offer is legitimate, Hearn is keen to schedule the all-British world title battle and is convinced that Joshua is as well.
“Personally, I don’t believe Fury is serious about this, but if he is, which I said to the Warrens [Monday] night, 100 per cent we will sit down and make the fight,” Hearn told talkSPORT.
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