“He Didn’t Make a Million Excuses” – Tyson Fury Compares Anthony Joshua to Deontay Wilder

Contrasting Deontay Wilder with the unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, ‘The Gypsy King’ has billed the latter as ‘class’. While both the heavyweights have faced defeat in recent times, Joshua and Wilder have reacted differently to it.

Anthony Joshua lost his unified crown against Andy Ruiz Jr. in 2019 but bounced back to win them in a rematch in the same year. Meanwhile, Deontay Wilder hasn’t appeared since his humiliating title loss against Tyson Fury in February. Instead, The Bronze Bomber’ has piled up several justifications to validate the defeat.

Deontay Wilder is still unready to accept the loss, and he continues to blame different people for it. He has blamed his long time trainer Mark Breland for being a double agent. Then he followed it up with several other excuses like the overweight walkout costume, his water being spiked, and Fury putting on extra weight on his gloves.

Meanwhile, Tyson Fury has reacted to it. He connected with Talk Sport to shed light on ‘The Bronze Bomber’s’ accusations.

Talking about it, Fury said, “After seeing all his excuses lately and that he’s still holding on to these malice feelings and opinions that people have cheated him. His trainers have cheated him, I had weights in my gloves, his costume was too heavy, he had a bicep injury, I’ve run out of ideas of what other excuses a man could make in a defeat in boxing.”

He added, “To keep going on like he’s going on is unsportsmanlike and it’s a sure sign of mental health problems. Nobody wants to get beat. Especially after a 12-year unbeaten streak. But there has to be a point where you let a defeat go.

“In sport, teams lose, boxers lose, everyone’s gonna lose now and again. If it’s more than a sporting contest to you and you’re gonna take it to your grave with you, all this hatred and bad feelings, I don’t think you should be doing it.”

Tyson Fury also brings Anthony Joshua in the mix with Deontay Wilder

When Fury was asked to compare Wilder’s loss with Joshua’s, he paved all his respect towards the latter. Although Fury and Joshua have been long-time rivals. ‘The Gypsy King’ still favors his British contemporary’s reaction to a loss.

Hailing ‘AJ’. Fury said, “Very class. Listen, we’re rivals and we have been for a long time. But I’ve gotta speak truthfully and honestly. You’re a world heavyweight champion, and you take a loss- he handled it like a man. He handled it very sportsmanlike, took it in his stride. He knew he made a mistake, and that was it.

He added, “He didn’t say why, he didn’t make a million excuses. I didn’t hear any excuses from him himself at all, none. He just said, ‘Well done, congratulations, I’ll see you next time. And I would hope that I could conduct myself like that as well if that happened to me.”

AJ also has a fight against Kubrat Pulev in December. That said, he is one of the most active contenders on the roster. If he beats Pulev next, Joshua can bag a title unification fight against Tyson Fury in 2021.