Frank Warren finally got what he wanted—a tête-à-tête with Adam Catterall. The multi-award-winning broadcaster has had quite a few reservations about Tyson Fury and some of his recent decisions. Especially his ruminations dwell on fights with Anthony Joshua. The story of how the two biggest draws in British boxing came close to a fight more than once is fairly well-known across boxing circles. The closest the duo came to a fight was last year.

After fighting Dillian Whyte for a title defense, Tyson Fury announced his retirement from boxing. Anthony Joshua, in the meantime, suffered his second consecutive defeat to Oleksandr Usyk in August. By September, ‘The Gypsy King’ called him for a ‘Battle of Britain.’ Reportedly, Team Joshua had accepted the offer ‘in essence.’ However, the match was eventually called off. So when Catterall pointed out the nitty-gritty surrounding the cancellation, Frank Warren would have none of it.

A missed chance

Akin to a boxing match, Warren and Catterall stuck with the usual pattern of testing each other first. The Queensbury head threw the initial jabs. He chided the founder of @thefightdisciples for labeling the recent goings-on in the heavyweight division as ‘warm lager.’ Adam Catterall tried to clarify. He wanted the top-tier boxers to fight each other. Warren explained that it was already happening and gave an instance of the Joshua-Usyk rematch, Fury’s mandatory title defense with Derek Chisora.

At that point, Catterall said, “But he called out Joshua at that time…he called out Joshua at that time.” Frank Warren replied that it was ‘AJ’ who wasn’t so keen on fighting Fury and quizzed him for disapproving ‘The Gypsy King.’ Catterall continued, “We’ve all seen the Netflix documentary where Tyson.. he wouldn’t give you more time to make the negotiation...” Frank Warren exclaimed, “Oh, stop talking boll*cks.”

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Initially, Frank Warren answered Adam Catterall’s initial remarks on talking about the heavyweight division ‘in general.’ He explained how multiple battles took place across the heavyweight division. Visibly upset, the Queensbury honcho said, “So what boll*cks are you talking about? It’s just crap. You’re in general there’s no in general. You just can’t pick something out, which is totally inaccurate and untrue.”

Catterall tried to make his standpoint a bit more clear. He basically wanted to highlight the steps taken to put the division on the right track. Nevertheless, it appeared to have failed to resonate with Frank Warren.

Tyson Fury versus Anthony Joshua: circle around and come back?

As it stands, Tyson Fury will finally move on with the long-pending fight with Usyk. On the other hand, Anthony Joshua will fight Otto Wallin on December 23. It would be his third fight of the year. If he scores a win, then there are chances of a meet-up with Deontay Wilder. The latter, incidentally, will fight Joseph Parker on the same date in Riyadh. Perhaps, when all is done and over, Joshua and Fury could come back and finally put a closure to the long-pending battle for good.

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Do you think, maybe after the Usyk fight, Fury should finally pursue Anthony Joshua for an all-British showdown? Please share your views with us in the comments below.

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