World Heavyweight Boxing champion, Anthony Joshua has stoked fires of rivalry with Tyson Fury, for the first time after beating Kubrat Pulev early December. According to Joshua, he wants to 'take Fury's head off his shoulders' and settle a score over an old Rolex promised to him by Fury after their famous 2010 spar.
Joshua also revealed he's targeting seven more years at the top and he also confirmed there's been progress in the past week over the proposed £200m showdown in May 2021 between him and Fury which would be one of the biggest events in British sporting history.
Joshua's comments come after an audio leaked this weak in which Fury, now the WBC champion admitted AJ gave him 'a killing' in sparring in 2010.
That sparring session came with the promise that if Joshua or any other heavyweight could beat Fury, they could take his Rolex, although the watch was never given to Joshua, who was 20 years old then.
With a super-fight between the Brits now closer than ever to materialising, Joshua, 31, said: 'All I wanted was his Rolex watch. He said before that spar (to Boxing News), "If you can beat me up or knock me out, you can have my Rolex watch".
'I was hungry then and I am even hungrier now. It was a good spar. I didn't really know too much, it was just passion. Now I have some boxing IQ and passion, I know it will be a great fight. 'There was a Rolex but now there is an even bigger pot of gold at the end of this rainbow and I want to take his head off his shoulders when that fight happens.'
Joshua, the IBF, WBA and WBO champion, added: 'After the Pulev fight I didn't want to do any interviews - less talk and more action. I stood by that. But now that we're talking about it, a week or so after, and I'm ready, I'm keen. If that fight happens I'm sure that I'll win. How close are we? I promise you conversations are happening. We're definitely looking at the landscape. But until you hear it from me, don't buy into anything."
