By Edward Chaykovsky
Former two division world champion David Haye does not expect newly crowned heavyweight king Tyson Fury to make a fight against Anthony Joshua.
According to Haye, Joshua - when he was an amateur - beat Fury up in sparring. Joshua went on to capture an Olympic gold medal and he is now 14-0 with 14 knockouts, and returns in the biggest fight of his career on Saturday night when he faces Dillian Whyte (16-0, 13KOs) at the O2 Arena in London.
Fury stunned Wladimir Klitschko on November 28th to capture the WBO/WBA/IBO/IBF heavyweight titles.
The new champion has already ruled out the possibility of fighting Haye. Fury is still steaming over Haye withdrawing, due to injury, from two previously scheduled dates.
"I’m waiting to hear what he says about Joshua because I have a feeling he’ll swerve him too. Joshua beat up Fury in sparring. When Joshua was an amateur he battered Fury. I saw an interview where Fury admitted: ‘Yeah this English kid beat me up in sparring’ … Now that kid is 14-0 and he’s knocking on the door. What are you going to do? Fury said he would rather fight his cousin than me. It’s really weird having a new world champion saying: ‘OK, I’m not fighting you or you,'” Haye told The Guardian.
