John Fury\u2019s brilliant reaction after meeting Anthony Joshua ahead of Francis Ngannou fight Matchroom BoxingJohn Fury is known for his no-nonsense, trash talk in boxing circles during the build-up of mega fights involving his sons Tyson Fury and Tommy Fury. Tyson, the WBC heavyweight world champion, has a long held rivalry with fellow Brit Anthony Joshua and there is genuine hope the pair could collide for the undisputed heavyweight world title later this year. Fury must get past WBA, IBF and WBO world champion Oleksandr Usyk in May first, though, while Joshua has to beat former UFC heavyweight world champion Francis Ngannou on Friday, too. John Fury meets Anthony Joshua in Saudi Arabia Fury\u2019s youngest son, Roman, is on the undercard of Joshua vs Ngannou and he is in Riyadh ahead of Friday\u2019s mega fight in Saudi Arabia. So, Joshua and Fury Sr inevitably crossed paths for the first time on Sunday and despite Fury\u2019s propensity for controversial trash talk, he was refreshingly respectful towards his son\u2019s rival. The pair embraced, before Joshua said: \u201cHow are you? I have watched everything you have said.\u201d Fury then laughed and then said to the watching media: \u201cHe is a f*****g big fella, isn\u2019t he?\u201d Joshua replied: \u201cIt is land of the giants, isn\u2019t it? The heavyweight division is changing up.\u201d Fury then said it was \u201cgreat to meet\u201d Joshua as conversation then turned towards Roman, before the pair wished each other luck and went their separate ways. One fan tweeted: \u201cBig John is in awe of AJ. It\u2019s all just trash talk at the end of the day,\u201d while another added: \u201cLove the respect!\u201d Joshua was participating in a media day ahead of the fight week schedule ramping up before Friday\u2019s main event in the Saudi capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
John Fury\u2019s brilliant reaction after meeting Anthony Joshua ahead of Francis Ngannou fight Matchroom BoxingJohn Fury is known for his no-nonsense, trash talk in boxing circles during the build-up of mega fights involving his sons Tyson Fury and Tommy Fury. Tyson, the WBC heavyweight world champion, has a long held rivalry with fellow Brit Anthony […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}