Tyson Fury says helium "needs to fight" chap British heavyweight Anthony Joshua earlier helium retires.
Negotiations implicit a imaginable bout betwixt WBC champion Fury and erstwhile unified champion Joshua's teams broke down successful September.
Instead, Fury, 34, volition defend his rubric against Derek Chisora successful London connected 3 December.
"I don't deliberation I tin discontinue contiguous due to the fact that I request that Joshua fight," Fury said connected the High Performance Podcast.
"We person been trying to marque that combat for years. It's the combat that radical privation to see. It's the combat that I privation to spot arsenic a boxing fan."
Discussions implicit a imaginable bout betwixt Fury and Joshua were held pursuing the 33-year-old's decision successful a 2nd combat against Oleksandr Usyk in August.
Shortly aft the bout, Fury challenged Joshua to a combat via a video connected societal media, to which Joshua accepted, saying helium would beryllium "ready successful December".
Negotiations ended with some parties blaming each different for the combat not coming to fruition.
Fury's gathering with Britain's Chisora, 38 astatine the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium volition beryllium the 3rd gathering betwixt the pair, with Fury winning successful 2011 and 2014.
Fury won the WBC title, alongside the The Ring loop which helium aboriginal vacated, successful his second of 3 fights against Deontay Wilder successful 2020.
At the time, Joshua held the remaining titles successful the heavyweight division, earlier his first decision by Usyk 2021.
In the past year, British heavyweights Joe Joyce and Daniel Dubois person besides earned connection wins successful the division, with Dubois beating Trevor Bryan successful June and Joyce defeating Joseph Parker successful September.
Despite each the imaginable bouts for Fury successful 2023, helium says Joshua remains apical of his priorities.
"For the past 4 oregon 5 years, determination has been this three-headed monster: me, Wilder, Joshua," said Fury.
"Joshua and Wilder person been slain, and I'm the past 1 standing. All of a sudden, you've got immoderate caller radical coming up present - Joe Joyce, Daniel Dubois, Usyk's gate-crashed the party.
"Now there's a load of caller humor that wasn't determination 5 years agone and it's like, 'can you bushed this person?'
"But I deliberation it would beryllium an implicit dying travesty if maine and Joshua didn't combat successful this era."
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