WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury explained that he's not surprised that domestic rival Anthony Joshua is backing Dillian Whyte.
Fury will make a mandatory defense against Whyte on Saturday night, before a crowd of 94,000 at Wembley Stadium in London.
Joshua, who himself has a heated rivalry with Whyte and knocked him out in 2015, is backing his former foe to win.
Fury is not shocked by Joshua's position.
“No, it doesn’t surprise me because they’re both beaten fighters. They’ve both lost a couple of times and I’m the only undefeated one left on these shores and I suppose they would want me to be like them – beaten. But It’s not happening," Fury told Talk Sport.
“So that’s why I can see them clubbing together. All of them will be clubbing together because they want to see me lose the fight, but that ain’t happening because the big GK [Gypsy King] don’t do losing.”
Fury is a tremendous favorite to win the fight with Whyte, who is one fight removed from a brutal knockout loss at the hands of Alexander Povetkin.
Whyte has been inactive since last March, when he stopped Povetkin in their rematch.
Should Fury win, he will be in line for the winner of the upcoming rematch between Oleksandr Usyk and Joshua, who battle for the IBF, IBO, WBA and WBO heavyweight championships.
However, Fury maintains that he plans to retire from boxing in the aftermath of the Whyte encounter. On the other hand, it's not the first time where Fury vowed to walk away from the sport.
Fury was in action last October, when he picked up a sensational eleventh round knockout of Deontay Wilder in the eleventh round of their trilogy fight.
