Anthony Joshua is determined to face Tyson Fury and end the "back and forth" between the two heavyweight champions.
AJ and Fury seem destined to face each other in a unification super-fight to establish the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.
Joshua holds three of the four major belts after avenging his shock defeat to Andy Ruiz Jr. last year with a points victory in December.
Meanwhile, Fury stunned American Deontay Wilder to win WBC gold in February via an emphatic seventh-round TKO victory.
Standing in the way of the two Brits meeting in the ring is Joshua's mandatory fight against Bulgarian challenger Kubrat Pulev and Fury's trilogy fight with Wilder.
But Joshua insists the Gypsy King is his priority target. He told The Sun : “Undoubtedly the fight I want is Tyson Fury - he is holding something that I want, he’s on my hit list.
“You never know what you’re going to get with him.
"He’s either at the top of the world, conquering the world, or at the bottom of the ocean and he needs to find a balance - but at the moment he seems to have found one at home working out with his wife."
Alongside adding the WBC belt to his IBF, WBA and WBO titles, Joshua explained that he is keen to swap his war of words with Fury for twelve rounds in the ring.
“He says things about me all the time, there is so much back and forth, but Tyson Fury is only relevant the day me and him sign a contract to fight," AJ added.
“The day he and I are going to fight is the only time really that I should be talking about Tyson Fury and I don’t really want to be in that position where I am talking him down.
“He says a lot of controversial things, and I know if that was me… I just think he gets away with a lot."
Setting his rivalry with Furry aside, Joshua complimented the Gypsy King for his work to raise awareness for mental health.
"But the work he has done around mental health has been very impressive," Joshua said.
“I didn’t understand how much mental health issues had played such a big part in society, and I think that Tyson Fury is such a big guy, a heavyweight champion of the world, and it means that people can look at him and think, well if Tyson Fury can go through this well, I shouldn’t be so scared to talk.
“Tyson has done so well with this. And that is what I am happy to talk about with Tyson Fury."
But Joshua insisted his focus is on inflicting a first career defeat on Fury, adding: “He is a great person and he has done great things in boxing, but until the day we fight that is where it ends and I don’t have anything else to say about him. I really want the belt he holds and that is where I stand.”
