Tyson Fury hints at how he and Anthony Joshua are treated differently in boxing

Tyson Fury believes he would have been ridiculed had he – and not Anthony Joshua – lost to Oleksandr Usyk.

The Ukrainian dethroned Joshua with a punch-perfect display in London last month to become a two-weight world champion.

Usyk had dominated the cruiserweight division before making the step up to heavyweight and now ranks alongside Fury among boxing's heaviest hitters.

But the Brit claims he would have been mocked had he been beaten by a smaller man.

"If it was me who lost to a cruiserweight then they would have been kicking me in the bollocks left, right and centre," he said. "Tell the truth; every man here knows that I’d have been written off.

"But I don’t like to kick a man when he is down, I want to kick a man when he is flying in the sky and everything is rolling for him then I want to challenge him.

"I don’t want to challenge him when he’s at his lowest and stick a few more knives in him and make him feel even worse."

Joshua lost his belts for the second time in two years following his defeat by Andy Ruiz Jr in 2019.

The Olympic gold medalist now faces another revenge meeting when he clashes with Usyk for a second time next year.

But Fury, who saw a £100million pay day disappear when Joshua lost, refused to stick the boot in.

"I’ve got nothing bad to say about Joshua," he said. "His business is his business. He had to take care of it and he couldn’t and that’s his problem.

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"In this game, landscapes change all the time. Wladimir Klitschko was supposed to be an easy victory against me, just a picked bum basically.

"That much so the IBF stripped me of a belt four days later because they didn’t I was going to win, therefore I wouldn’t have to defend my mandatory and Wladimir could, they were confident I would get beat up.

"The landscape changes time and time again, as we’ve seen. You can’t help what happens in boxing. You have some fights, you win some and you lose some, that is all it is. There is always going to be someone out there better than you on the night, that’s a fact."

Fury had been on the verge of announcing his fight with Joshua earlier this year before a judge ruled he must instead face Deontay Wilder for a third time.

The rivals will clash again this weekend in Las Vegas as Fury attempts to ensure at least one world title remains in Britain.

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