By Tim Parsons-
Tyson Fury has accused Anthony Joshua of lacking freestyle ability, and said it will cost him pay per views.
Fury criticised the undisputed world champion’s speech during a protester’s rally in which Joshua appeared to be urging the black community not to invest their money in white owned businesses.
What Fury failed to say was that Joshua was reading the note from a sheet that was passed to him from members of the crowd. Perhaps he wasn’t aware of this.
Joshua said: ‘Show them where it hurts,’ Joshua said. ‘Abstain from spending your money in their shops and economies and invest in black-owned businesses.’
‘Because I think it’s cost him a lot of pay-per-views, figures and stuff like that, and it’s upset a lot of people because he’s supposed to be the poster boy, the role model, the ambassador and talks bulls**t like that. But it is what it is what it is. Everyone to their own. None of my concern, to be fair.’
Reported in the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror says he would never have made a similar speech because to him ‘colour does not exist’ and he has been subjected to anti-traveller discrimination throughout his life. He added: ‘Good job it wasn’t me, and it never would be me because to me colour doesn’t exist, I’ve got the most diverse team in boxing.
World Champ Anthony Joshua mixes with crowds during protest
Intensifying his criticism against Joshua and his promoter Eddie Hearn, Fury said : ‘The thing is with Joshua, he’s always got Eddie to talk for him and Eddie does all the media stuff and all that and he sort of just reads off a piece of paper. ‘Even that speech he was reading, he read it off a piece of paper. Nothing is freestyle, everything is wrote out or planned. So during the lockdown obviously Eddie wasn’t with him when he did this, or else he’d have given him a right kick up the rear end.