Tyson Fury has revealed Anthony Joshua sent him a text questioning which of the two heavyweights would lose first - two years before Joshua was beaten by Andy Ruiz Jr.
The 'Gypsy King' is currently undefeated and looking for his next heavyweight challenge after ending his trilogy with Deontay Wilder with an emphatic victory.
Meanwhile Joshua suffered his second career defeat against Oleksandr Usyk and will bid for redemption after losing his unified world titles.
Fury revealed Joshua previously partnered his infamous "fat f***" tweet in 2017 with a text message in questioning who would fall to their first career defeat.
"Listen I am not a big bragger I do what I do and I get lucky some times, 31 times in a row," Fury told IFL TV. "I remember when I was 'fat as f***' and 28 stone.
"He also said to me 'let's see who loses first fat boy', he sent me a message saying that and I think he has already lost twice and I still have that big fat zero baby.
"And by the way I haven't done any eye signal or anything like that, I am still the same old guy."
Joshua was beaten by Ruiz on his American debut 2019 but later avenged the loss in a mega-money showdown to become two-time world champion.
Fury, meanwhile, returned from a near three-year lay-off to defeat Wilder twice following their controversial draw in 2018.
Joshua has now been subject to a step-aside offer from Fury's team to allow the 'Gypsy King' to step in and face Usyk instead of a rematch against Joshua.
But 'AJ' has demanded that he would face the winner of the undisputed showdown next year despite the pending status of Dillian Whyte's WBC mandatory challenge.
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He will also request a fee of £40million to accept the offer according to his promoter Eddie Hearn who has insisted that Joshua still wants to take on Usyk next year.
"We've had their team reach out to us," Hearn confirmed to Boxing King Media. "Seven figures? A million? If you want to get him not to fight Oleksandr Usyk you have to times that by 40.
"At the moment there is communication between the two teams to say is it something... and the answer is AJ has not been spoken to about this yet.
"I'll deal with it and when I feel there's an opportunity for Anthony and 258 [Management] we'll sit down with them and present it to them but I won't do that until it's the right opportunity."
