Hall of famer Roy Jones Jr has weighed in on the reignited talks of a fight between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, believing the latter should avoid it.
Fury’s team said Joshua’s side had elected to put a pin in negotiations for an all British dust up this autumn, with their focus to remain on a clash in Saudi Arabia with Deontay Wilder in December instead.
Speaking to Boxing News, Jones – who was once rumoured to be in the running to train Joshua – believes the Olympic gold medalist made the correct call, saying it would be ‘stupid’ to take the fight now.
“Why would anyone come off one of the worst performances they’ve had in a long time, and go and fight Tyson Fury? How much sense does that make?
Which one of us believes that, based off his last performance, that he would beat Tyson Fury? Who really thinks that?
You’ve got to get comfortable with your team first before you take a fight of that magnitude.
He clearly doesn’t have it together with his new trainer yet, so to fight the top guy of the division before having it together with your trainer, how stupid would that be?
So no, you don’t put him in with Tyson Fury right now. Let him get comfortable with his new trainer first, then fight Tyson Fury.”
It now looks like Joshua will rematch old foe Dillian Whyte this August and, if victorious, will jump straight in to a monster clash with Wilder towards the end of the year.
Skill Challenge Entertainment are remarkably looking to stage a fight between Joshua and Wilder on the same card as an undisputed clash between Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk in Saudi Arabia, in what would be one of the biggest nights in the history of the sport.