Tyson Fury fired a warning to Anthony Joshua after reaching a compromise deal with UK Anti-Doping which has paved the way for his return to the ring.
Fury has been cleared to fight again immediately after accepting a two-year ban, backdated to December 2015, for his positive test for the banned steroid nandrolone.
It means Fury, who has returned to training and faced the UKAD hearing alongside cousin Hughie, can challenge for Joshua’s unified WBA, IBF and IBO world heavyweight titles, assuming he gets his licence back from the British Boxing Board of Control.
But, with nandrolone normally carrying a four-year suspension, the deal has left UKAD open to accusations that it took the easy way out and has certainly highlighted its financial constraints.
Those are not concerns for Fury, though, who wrote in a Twitter message to Joshua: “Where you at boy? I’m coming for you punk.”
The 29-year-old added: “I’m a fighting man through and through and I’ve never backed down from anyone in my life. I was certainly not going to back down from fighting this dispute.”