{"id":1199668,"date":"2022-09-06T17:10:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T17:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/06\/tyson-fury-offers-anthony-joshua-chance-to-fight-for-title-this-year\/"},"modified":"2022-09-06T17:10:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T17:10:33","slug":"tyson-fury-offers-anthony-joshua-chance-to-fight-for-title-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/06\/tyson-fury-offers-anthony-joshua-chance-to-fight-for-title-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury offers Anthony Joshua chance to fight for title this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/126593272_anthonyjoshua-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"Anthony Joshua was beaten by Oleksandr Usyk last month\" title=\"Anthony Joshua was beaten by Oleksandr Usyk last month\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Joshua was beaten by Oleksandr Usyk last month<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has offered Anthony Joshua the chance to fight for his belt before the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Fury, 34, is looking for an opponent after rival Oleksandr Usyk, the WBO, WBA and IBF champion,\u00a0suggested he will not return to the ring until 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua, who\u00a0was beaten\u00a0by the Ukrainian in Saudi Arabia last month,\u00a0responded to Fury\u2019s challenge\u00a0by saying he would be \u201cready in December\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Fury said in April he was retiring.<\/p>\n<p>But in a video posted on social media on Monday, he said: \u201cYou\u2019ve all heard that I\u2019m going to be fighting within the next few months, and before I announce an opponent I need to do this just in case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnthony Joshua, I know you\u2019ve just lost a fight to Usyk, and I know you\u2019re belt-less at the moment, and I\u2019d like to give you an opportunity to fight me for the WBC heavyweight championship of the world and the lineal championship in the next few months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re coming off a 12-round fight so you\u2019re match fit, you\u2019re ready, I\u2019m giving you a few months\u2019 notice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re interested I\u2019ll send you the date over and we can rumble \u2013 a battle of Britain for the WBC heavyweight championship of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fury had said he was retiring\u00a0after beating Dillian Whyte\u00a0in April,\u00a0and also reiterated\u00a0that claim just last month.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Fury\u00a0said he would announce his next opponent next week<strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>but confirmed it will not be Usyk.<\/p>\n<p>Uysk said on Friday of a fight with Fury: \u201cIt won\u2019t happen this year, that\u2019s for sure. I\u2019m totally healthy and don\u2019t have any injuries, but I have old traumas which have resurfaced, and which need to be treated. I will need up to two months to recuperate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"5hUy5p8Xuaw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kasiebo Tau At 3:55 PM on Adom TV (6-9-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5hUy5p8Xuaw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Joshua was beaten by Oleksandr Usyk last month WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has offered Anthony Joshua the chance to fight for his belt before the end of this year. Fury, 34, is looking for an opponent after rival Oleksandr Usyk, the WBO, WBA and IBF champion,\u00a0suggested he will not return to the ring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1199669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1636,8933,1271,577,8630,102,400,3958,293],"class_list":["post-1199668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-anthony","tag-chance","tag-fight","tag-fury","tag-joshua","tag-offers","tag-title","tag-tyson","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}