An angry Tyson Fury 30-0-1 (21) has labelled all his heavyweight rivals “bums” ahead of his third clash against Deontay Wilder 42-1-1 (41) at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 9.
The 33-year-old Brit will defend the WBC title he won against Wilder by seventh-round knockout in his last fight in February last year.
Fury was expected to face countryman and WBA, WBO and IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua 24-1 (22) in the northern summer before an independent arbitrator ruled he was contractually obliged to face 35-year-old American Wilder for a third time.
Meanwhile, Joshua is set to meet WBO mandatory contender and former undisputed cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk 18-0 (13) at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in Tottenham, England on September 25.
Fury says he see know threat in any of the top-rated big men.
“I’m going to knock Deontay Wilder spark out and it’s going to be even quicker than our last fight,” Fury said.
“If he couldn’t beat me after three years out of the ring and 10 stone weight loss, he’s never beating me. None of them will. They’re just hyped-up bums. All of them. Wilder, Joshua, Usyk. They’re all bums. Compared to me, they’re no good.”
Fury will have been out of the ring for 20 months when he faces Wilder, who hasn’t fought since their rematch either.
“I have got my next four fights lined up. I’m gonna destroy Wilder and then I’m gonna take a fight in December because of all the inactivity,” Fury said to BT Sport.
“I don’t think the Joshua fight’s gonna happen in December. I’ll fight Dillian Whyte back in the UK for the first time in years at a stadium in December.
“Let’s get a date in December, I’ll shut that bum right up, that’ll be an easy one. And then I’ll fight Joshua in March-time, maybe it’s in Saudi Arabia, let’s do it. Then we can have a rematch in the summer, back here at Wembley.
“And then I’ll go out with my fifth fight, I’ll fight Dereck Chisora, then I’ll take two years out the ring, go absolutely nuts again. And I’ll come back at 37 and wipe the floor with whoever’s next, it’ll take two years to build someone up.”
Whyte, who is promoted by Eddie Hearn, has long been chasing a shot at the green belt currently in possession of Fury.
“Let’s hope [Whyte] doesn’t start asking for stupid money that don’t exist, because if he asks for stupid money, then he don’t want the fight,” Fury said.
“So you heard it here, we’ll do Wilder on October 9, we’ll do Dillian Whyte sometime in December, that’s definitely gonna happen, I’m gonna splatter him for sure.”
Hearn, who also promoted Joshua, questioned whether Fury-Wilder III was even going ahead after the previous date for the fight on July 24 was scrapped after the titleholder reportedly tested positive for Covid-19.
“Is that fight even happening? We are about to announce our next America show for October 16th and that’s only six weeks away and it’s tight but it’s not as big a card as Fury vs Wilder 3 should be,” the Matchroom Boxing boss said The Sun.
“They have sold no tickets and there is absolutely zero hype around the fight. I am sure, if it happens, that people will turn on and watch it but no one is flying to Vegas. I reckon 75 percent of the people that went to the second fight were Brits who had flown over and normal fans cannot do that now.
“I want it to happen 100 percent. I want a winner of that finally sorted so we can try again to make Anthony Joshua’s undisputed fight. But if it doesn’t happen then the WBC have to finally put Fury into recess.
“Fury has not boxed since February 2020 and if he doesn’t box in October then it will be almost two years since that title was defended. Dillian Whyte has been sitting there as interim-champion, desperate and deserving of a shot.
“I appreciate the two-year absence is down to the pandemic and the problems but, when it gets to two years and everyone else has managed to fight, something has got to happen.”
