The Great British Bromance Between Tyson Luke Fury & Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua

Dating back a whole decade, when Fury visited the Finchley ABC gym to spar with a young AJ, then raved to him on Steve Bunce's radio show:

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...and continuing until last night:

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(Joshua went on the record as rooting for Fury in the Wilder rematch, as well)

There has also been some chirping back & forth, but all good-natured stuff, nothing below the belt, and usually said with a grin. There has always been obvious mutual respect between them.

It'll be strictly business when they all-but-inevitably clash in an epic & historic unification match for all four major alphabet titles as well as the Ring Magazine/lineal/TBRB championship recognition. The only spanner in the works would be Pulev (IBF) or Usyk (WBO) getting mandatory shots at and dethroning Joshua - or Fury surrendering the WBC/Ring/TBRB back to Wilder should he lose a mooted summer trilogy fight.

Nice juxtaposition of styles, too - imagine they hit the pause button on friendship and went all out, with Joshua fighting the way he fought Klitschko, and Fury the way he fought the Wilder rematch? That could be the GOAT heavyweight fight of the modern heavyweight era.

 

If they were to go in with a handshake deal to not hurt each other, however - or if Joshua employs more of a Ruiz II strategy & style, while Fury boxes the way he did, say, Wallin - this could be a horrifically unworthy undisputed HW title match.

 

Well that's an unfair standard to hold anyone up to.

Takam fight wasn't boring.

I personally enjoyed the Parker match, but it was definitely "one for the purists".

Povetkin wasn't bad.

Early on Ruiz I had a ROTY candidate, IIRC? But then again, that led to him losing, and of course the rematch was considerably less fun, by design.

 

He's consistently inconsistent, let's say that.

And of course we know Fury is notorious for always fighting to his competition's level and matching their energy. Which could be great news in a Joshua match...unless Josha elects to box monotonously, or they mutually assent to go easy on each other.

 

Even if Joshua lands that uppercut that prompted Fury to say if he were Price he would've been "out cold for month"?

 

I agree. He would ironically have more respect for Joshua than boogeyman Wilder, because, while the Wilder right may be >> the Joshua left, Joshua unlike Wilder has more than just power.