By Edward Chaykovsky
IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has no interest in trying to reclaim the IBF world title.
Fury captured the IBF belt, along with his current three, when he unseated division king Wladimir Klitschko last November in Germany.
Not long after winning the fight, the International Boxing Federation ordered him to make a mandatory defense against Czar Glazkov.
Fury was willing to make the mandatory defense, but there was only one problem - Klitschko had the contractual right to an immediate rematch. Once that clause was exercised, Fury was not allowed to take an interim fight. Fury's management tried to work something out with the sanctioning body, but they held their ground and stripped him for his inability to face Glazkov.
Charles Martin picked up the vacant belt this past January with a TKO in three of Glazkov. Martin will defend the belt against Anthony Joshua next Saturday night in the UK.
The winner of Martin-Joshua would be an obvious target for Fury in the immediate future (should he beat Klitschko). While he is interested in the winner of that fight, he is less interested in the title involved.
"I don’t even want that title. That is a title they took off me. It is a piece of sh*t, it doesn’t mean anything. It is a paper title. Martin or Joshua would never box for a world title like I did with Klitschko. I beat the man who couldn’t be beaten. It is what it is. It is worthless. Even if I did win it again I would throw it on the floor and piss on it,” Fury said.



