Frank Warren: Joshua could get beaten by anybody at the moment

Tyson Fury’s promoter Frank Warren has told William Hill’s podcast, Up Front with Simon Jordan, that Anthony Joshua is liable to be beaten by any fighter at the moment. 

Featuring on William Hill’s Up Front with Simon Jordan, a podcast hosted by the former Crystal Palace owner who speaks to sports stars and celebrities and challenges their opinions whilst scrutinising their careers, Warren discussed Joshua in his current state and how he would fair against other top heavyweights: “Joshua is liable to get beaten by anybody at the moment, if anybody hits him on the chin he will go. When you watch him now, as he’s throwing a shot, and he’s a big puncher, he’s pulling back and away because he wants to get out of range and he’s terrified of the counter.”

I’d make Joshua fight Fury

Continuing the conversation around Anthony Joshua, Fury’s promoter said that if he were Joshua’s promoter then he would set up a fight with Tyson Fury.

“If I was Anthony Joshua’s promoter I’d make him fight Tyson Fury,” he said. “I even would’ve put him in against Fury two months after he fought Oleksandr Usyk, he didn’t take a beating in that fight. It may have been a psychologically damaging outcome for Joshua, but he has been psychologically gone for a couple of years now.

“You wouldn’t particularly want to see Joshua in the ring against Usyk again, so if he’s not going to fight Usyk, who is the man with most of the belts, and he doesn’t want to fight the holder of the WBC belt which is Tyson Fury, then what does he want to do? Does he think he’s going to get any better to be able to take these guys on? That’s what they’re trying to sell, and they’re selling bull***t.”

Joshua fight isn’t legacy defining for Fury

Speaking further on the potential for a fight between Joshua and Fury, Warren explained that he doesn’t think Fury needs to fight Joshua for the sake of his legacy.

“I don’t think beating Anthony Joshua is a career or legacy defining fight for Tyson Fury,” he said. “I don’t agree with the idea that he has to fight Joshua because is a two-time heavyweight champion of the world. That’s like comparing it to when Larry Holmes fought Mike Tyson, Holmes was a great fighter in his time but he was a 41-year-old.

“Tyson Fury went and beat Wladimir Klitschko in Berlin and opened up the heavyweight division. He fought Klitschko 18 months before Joshua did and Klitschko had Joshua on the floor in that fight.

“Joshua has had the cr*p kicked out of him in the past few years and in his last six fights he has lost three. He’s not a legacy defining fight, Usyk is. I believe that if Fury wants to carry on fighting then fights against all of Joshua, Usyk, Zhilei Zhang and Joe Joyce will be made.”