Tyson Fury has questioned Anthony Joshua’s decision not to accept a $50 million (£35.9 million) offer to fight Deontay Wilder.
Wilder (40, 39 KOs), who currently holds the WBC heavyweight belt, e-mailed Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn last week with the offer to fight before the end of the year.
Tyson Fury has insisted becoming a world champion again is not his motivation to return to boxing while also branding fellow competitors Tony Bellew and David Haye as “bums”.
However, Joshua’s team refused the proposition due to not knowing the contractual conditions of the offer, including the intricacies of TV broadcasting and the location of the fight.
Despite Hearn attempting to organise a meeting to discuss these finer details, Wilder’s team is said to have not co-operated thus far and subsequently nothing has materialised yet.
Now Fury has questioned his British rival’s motives.
“It’s a lot of money if it’s a genuine offer, which I believe it is,” Fury told ESPN. “Then how much do they want?
“How greedy can one man be? 50 million isn’t good enough? Well, good luck to him, I hope he gets 250 million.
“I don’t know what’s going on. We’re prize fighters. We boxed for free once upon a time. I’m sure it’s not [just] about the money.”
Fury (25-0, 18KOs) also had his say on the potential fight, stating the winner will be “whoever lands first.”
The Manchester boxer is set to make his own return to boxing on June 9 against a currently unnamed opponent.
“Whoever it is infront of me, I’m sure I’ll deal with them very well,” Fury added. “It’s not of any importance who the opponent is.”
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