{"id":38337,"date":"2022-11-15T21:07:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T20:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/?p=38337"},"modified":"2022-11-15T21:07:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T20:07:48","slug":"i-wont-retire-until-i-fight-joshua-says-fury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/i-wont-retire-until-i-fight-joshua-says-fury\/","title":{"rendered":"I won&#8217;t retire until I fight Joshua, says Fury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Reigning World Boxing Council heavyweight champion, Tyson Fury, says he &#8220;needs to fight&#8221; fellow British heavyweight Anthony Joshua before he retires.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Negotiations over a potential bout between WBC champion Fury and former unified champion Joshua&#8217;s teams broke down in September.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Fury, 34, will defend his title against Derek Chisora in London on \u00a0December 3.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think I can retire today because I need that Joshua fight,&#8221; Fury said on the High-Performance Podcast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been trying to make that fight for years. It&#8217;s the fight that people want to see. It&#8217;s the fight that I want to see as a boxing fan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Discussions over a potential bout between Fury and Joshua were held following the 33-year-old&#8217;s defeat in a second fight against Oleksandr Usyk in August.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the bout, Fury challenged Joshua to a fight via a video on social media, to which Joshua accepted, saying he would be &#8220;ready in December&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations ended with both parties blaming each other for the fight not coming to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>Fury&#8217;s meeting with Britain&#8217;s Chisora, 38 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium will be the third meeting between the pair, with Fury winning in 2011 and 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Fury won the WBC title, alongside The Ring belt which he later vacated, in his second of three fights against Deontay Wilder in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Joshua held the remaining titles in the heavyweight division, before his first defeat by Usyk 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reigning World Boxing Council heavyweight champion, Tyson Fury, says he &#8220;needs to fight&#8221; fellow British heavyweight Anthony Joshua before he retires. Negotiations over a potential bout between WBC champion Fury and former unified champion Joshua&#8217;s teams broke down in September. Instead, Fury, 34, will defend his title against Derek Chisora in London on \u00a0December 3. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":34550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[84,2066],"tags":[493,945],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/WILDER.jpg?fit=640%2C426&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd18y-9Yl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38338,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38337\/revisions\/38338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}