Tyson Fury Offers Anthony Joshua To Train With Him For Oleksandr Usyk Rematch

Anthony Joshua made some changes to his training camp ahead of his impending rematch with Oleksandr Usyk in the hopes of regaining the WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight titles.

Ditching longtime coach Robert McCracken in favor of The Ring Magazine’s 2011 Trainer of the Year awardee Robert Garcia, Joshua is looking to have a definitive victory over Usyk.

However, fellow Englishman Tyson Fury was critical of this change in Joshua’s camp and even urged the 2012 Olympic gold medalist to train with him instead.

“Unless Anthony Joshua gets his ass up to Morecambe and lets me train him for this fight, Robert Garcia and ten men like him will not make him beat Usyk,” Fury explained in a recent appearance on Queensberry Promotion’s official YouTube channel.

“One, they don’t know him [Joshua]. Two, they don’t know what he’s got in his engine. Three, he’s not a little Mexican who can go toe-to-toe with someone for 15 rounds.”

Joshua training with Fury would certainly be a sight to behold as “The Gypsy King” sharing everything he knows about boxing would make the former be a formidable force in the ring.

For Fury, the game plan for Joshua is not about pushing the pace and being aggressive, but to be more careful in picking out his spots while also landing shots at a high rate.

But if his countryman decides not to follow his advice, he sees it as an easy victory in favor of Usyk.

“If he gets on Usyk from round one and tries to push him and be aggressive, he’ll get gassed in four rounds, starts hanging around by five rounds and gets stopped in six or seven. If he comes to Morecambe Bay, I’ll teach him how to be a real Viking man for twelve rounds and how to deal with these little middleweight people, then he’ll get a win. Other than that, I see him getting beat again. Two in a row, baby and it’s over,” Fury lengthily clarified.

Joshua was thoroughly outclassed by Usky in their first meeting and it quickly became apparent that he was simply not capable of hanging with Usyk at the time.

Bringing in Garcia has Joshua leaning towards being the one to dictate the pace of the fight, which opens up holes for him to get through and land punches of his own.

With no date being announced yet for Joshua–Usyk II, it remains to be seen whether the Brit pugilist will take up Fury’s offer and have a few training sessions with him.