TYSON FURY has branded Anthony Joshua a “COWARD” as the heated venue row over their grudge match rages on.
The past-due Battle of Britain is, thanks to broadcasters Netflix and Saudi financier Turki Alalshikh, stunningly slated to take place at Madison Square Garden on November 20.
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Joshua, 36, has been adamant from the outset that it be staged in the UK as per the terms of the contract he signed, but is willing to take part in an MSG melee if his new demands, which include being compensated for the high tax in New York, are met.
Negotiations are still ongoing over the proposed changes AJ promoter Eddie Hearn sent to Saudi conglomerate Sela last week.
But Fury, 38, is growing tired of the saga, and raged on Instagram this evening: “There is still no deal done, and it’s getting quite tiring.
“I’ve been down to fight in every location that’s been mentioned; England, Ireland, Vegas, New York, back to England, back to Ireland, back to New York.
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“I’ve said yes every time with zero stipulations. The facts are, I feel like you’re being a coward.”
Fury reckons AJ is using the change of venue to duck out of their domestic dust-up, which has been on the cards for the last 16 YEARS.
‘The Gypsy King’ continued: “I feel like you don’t want to fight and you’re just conning everybody.
“I feel like you’ve been doing that for years.
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“You’ve had many opportunities to fight me, but deep down you never really wanted it.
“So let’s see if you’re going to man up the final time.
“Let’s f***ing fight. It’s a boxing match; you’ve been banjoed before plenty of times.
“You’ve been knocked spark out a few times, so what? What’s the worst that can happen?
“I’m going to f***ing chin you, 100 per cent, but it’s nothing that hasn’t been done before!”
One of Hearn’s gripes with Sela was that they hadn’t paid him for his second-round KO of Kristian Prenga last July.
AJ has finally been paid his night’s work, but is still holding firm on the fight taking place in the UK.
Hearn said: “Yeah, we’re all good from the last fight and we’re all moving forward amicably.
“We don’t want to do the fight in the US, but we also understand it has to work for everybody.
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“And at the same time we’re basically being told, ‘We only want to do the fight in the US.’ – which we don’t agree with, we don’t understand – but we’ve been banging our heads against the wall on that for the last two months.
“So like I said, we’ve set out our position, mainly in concern to the tax situation that will deplete his net purse by going to America, which can be rectified and I think they’re happy to do that.
“Everything else is, there’s no abnormal requests. It’s up to them. There’s nothing else to discuss.
“There’s nothing, there’s not one of those terms that was mentioned in the ‘leaked’ email that that is in the addendum.
“They’re all stuff related to the fight. If they want it there they’ll sign it. If not, we’ll be very happy and we’ll do it in the UK.”
But Hearn admits time is of the essence, saying: “We will need to make a decision this week.
“They’ve replied; they have our terms. It’s up to them.
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“We don’t want to do the fight in the US. But if they really want it in the US, these are our terms.
“There’s nothing unreasonable in there, to be honest with you.”