Tyson Fury has offered to train Anthony Joshua for free in a bid to help his fellow British heavyweight reverse the result in his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk.
The former cruiserweight world champion stunned Joshua at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in September by unanimous decision.
Joshua’s team confirmed after the fight that they intended to activate a rematch clause with a second meeting likely to take place in earlier 2022.
Ahead of his own high-profile heavyweight encounter with Deontay Wilder in Las Vegas this weekend, Fury believes that he and his trainer, former police officer SugarHill Steward, could guide Joshua to victory.
“I know that if I trained [Anthony] Joshua for his next fight, he’d definitely beat Oleksandr Usyk,” Fury said.
“I would be very open to doing it. I’ll do it for free – I don’t want to take his money. Me and SugarHill would take on that challenge. I guarantee he would beat him.”
While Fury would not be drawn on specific ideas he would have to help Joshua overcome Usyk, he cited his victory over similarly-built ex-cruiserweight Steve Cunningham as evidence that he knows how to beat a fighter of the Ukrainian’s ilk.
“I’d give [Joshua] the right information to beat Usyk. I’m not going to say much. You have to train to do it.
“I believe every heavyweight can win fights. Someone as big and powerful as him only needs to land a couple of punches.”
Fury also explained that the ideal of a long-mentioned match with Joshua still appeals to him.
The encounter between the two Brits had been scheduled for August of this year in Saudi Arabia.
However after difficulties agreeing the fight, Joshua would instead arrange a bout with his mandatory challenger Usyk, while Fury signed up to complete a trilogy of fights with Wilder, a match which takes place in Las Vegas on Saturday 9 October.
The towering Fury believes that any potential meeting has lost its lustre after Joshua’s defeats to Usyk and Andy Ruiz Jr. made a victory for the undefeated WBC and The Ring heavyweight champion a foregone conclusion.
“After I beat Wilder, which was a tough test for me, I’d have liked to have fought Joshua,” Fury explained. “But now the reality of him beating me is getting less and less.
“People would still want to watch it but it is getting less and less interesting. Even with a rematch, is he going to beat me, a six-foot-nine giant who has never been beaten in 13, 14 years as a pro?”
