Fury offers to assist Joshua beat Usyk

Boxing World Champion Tyson Fury has claimed that Nigeria-born former heavyweight champion of the world Anthony Joshua lacks the lungs, heart and balls to beat Oleksandr Usyk and that he has what it takes to make Joshua win  — if he is willing to make the trip to his home town of Morecambe.

Joshua, 32, will soon announce an August 20 rematch against Usyk, 35, in Saudi Arabia after losing his WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight world titles at Tottenham last September.

The Nigeria ace axed coach Rob McCracken in the aftermath, replacing him with respected Mexican-American Robert Garcia. But mastermind Fury has done all his homework to deliver a ruthless breakdown of Joshua’s chances.

He knows all of Garcia’s success has come with fighters half AJ’s size and that simply attacking a genius like Usyk will end in disaster.

Undefeated WBC champion Fury said: “I will give you a brutally honest answer to this — unless Anthony Joshua gets his arse up to Morecambe and lets me train him for this fight, Robert Garcia and ten men like will not make him beat Usyk.

 “One, they don’t know him.  Two, they don’t know what he has in his engine. And three, he is not a little Mexican who can go toe to toe with someone for 15 rounds.

“If he gets on Usyk from round one and tries to push and be aggressive, he will be gassed out after four rounds and get stopped inside seven.

“But if he comes to Morecambe Bay and I teach him how to be a real fighting man for 12 rounds and how to deal with these little middleweight people, then he will get a win.

“Other than that, I see him getting beat again, two in a row baby, and then it’s over.

“But if he wants to resurrect his career then please come up to the man who has been undefeated for 13 years and retired as only the second heavyweight in history to be on top of the game. It all goes on whatever Robert Garcia’s game plan is and how quickly he wants him to get chinned.

“To have a come-forward style and keep being aggressive, when you are a big man like him and me are, then you need to have two V12 engines.

“You need to be able to take punches and you need to have balls like King Kong and he doesn’t have any of these three.

“He doesn’t have the best engine in the world, he doesn’t have toughness and he doesn’t have King Kong balls.

 “Without them he needs the best game plan ever and just going on the front foot and attacking is impossible for him because he doesn’t have the grit, determination or will, or any of the above, to do it.

“The only way I see him doing it is if he hits him with a big punch, which he didn’t last time, and tries to knock him out that way.

“But if he goes on the front foot and tries to be aggressive with Usyk then he gets stopped inside eight rounds — and I mean that.”

But Robert Garcia, who has taken over from Robert McCracken, as AJ's trainer believes he has seen clear mistakes in Joshua's approach to the first fight last year and he has a plan for his man to get the better of the Ukrainian.

Garcia wants to see AJ use his physique much better and that will be his aim as he prepares the Nigeria born former champion for the August 20 showdown in Saudi Arabia.

"When you have somebody that's a lot smaller than you and you have the weight, height, reach and power advantages then take advantage of that," Garcia told IFL TV.

"It seemed like they had a different game plan.

"I wouldn't even want to say it was a 'game plan', maybe it was just the wrong instructions. Anthony is the type of fighter who listens to his corner so he did what he was told and it was totally wrong."

Garcia went on to talk about how receptive Joshua has been to his ideas and the strategy the new coaching team is laying out as they plot revenge on Usyk.

"But the way it looks now, he's listening to us, we have our meetings with him and he's happy that we're working together, he's hungry again and he's told us personally that he wants to do it for himself, but for us too," said Garcia.

"He said 'you are going to deserve this win and I want to do it for you'.

"That's huge, that's something coming from a fighter that very few think like. Most fighters think about themselves and, yeah, they love their trainers and, yeah, they want to win big fights together, but at the end it's only about themselves. He told us this one is for us."