IBF, WBA, WBO, IBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has backed his domestic rival, Tyson Fury, to retain his WBC title with a victory over Deontay Wilder on July 24th at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Fury and Wilder fought to a controversial twelve round split draw in December 2018.
In their February 2020 rematch, Fury dominated and stopped Wilder in the seventh round to capture the WBC title at Las Vegas' MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Joshua and Fury were being lined up to face each other on August 14th in Saudi Arabia - but then an arbitrator ordered Fury to face Wilder in a trilogy fight by September.
When Fury and Wilder collide next month, Joshua is expecting the same winner to come out on top.
"I don't mind, I don't mind [giving my take]. But Fury won the last one so I'll go with Fury because you're only as good as your last performance. But good luck to them both," Joshua said to Talk Sport.
On the other end, Joshua is preparing for a mandatory defense against former undisputed cruiserweight king Oleksandr Usyk.
Joshua's goal at the moment is to topple Uysk - and then collide with the winner of the Fury-Wilder trilogy in a full division unification.
"I've got to defend my title. I'm going to be training alongside the team preparing for my championship fight while these guys prepare for the Olympics," Joshua said.
'I'm going to win because I have to. I've got no other option and then I'm going to get on to the next fight which is the undisputed. So we're back on the road to undisputed, I'm supporting the Olympic boys and then when they finish with a bang hopefully the next fight I have will be an undisputed fight so there will be so many eyes on the boxing scene in 2021 and 2022."
