Tyson Fury's latest comeback antics is all part of a Netflix script to lead up to Anthony Joshua fight… claims insider
TYSON FURY'S latest antics are all part of a Netflix script leading up to the Anthony Joshua showdown - according to their shared bestie Derek Chisora.
The 41-year-old Zimbabwe-Brit has shared the ring three times with the Gypsy King and become a pal to the giant reality TV star.
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He is also a long-time Finchley ABC mentor to our 35-year-old London 2012 legend and so has never chased that big-money AJ fight.
Chisora - the veteran warhorse who somehow stays friends with everyone in the bleeding business - knows the British fight game inside out.
And he reckons 36-year-old Fury's shock December retirement - and everything up until Thursday's claim he has secured an April trilogy with Oleksandr Usyk at Wembley - are all little streaming episodes leading up to the overdue biggest fight in British boxing history.
At the IBA show in Turkey - where Del Boy even spent a second on Fury's LAP at ringside - he told SunSport: 'Whatever you think is happening, is not happening, because something big is happening soon.
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'Watch this space - something big is happening soon. It's a great story.
'He announced on the biggest platform that he's retiring. That blows up the internet with a shock retirement announcement from his car.
'It creates the build-up, it's entertainment, that's the whole point.
'When I saw the cameras around Tyson, I knew he was coming back, he's definitely coming back and this is a good selling point.
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'AJ cannot retire without fighting Tyson and Tyson cannot retire without fighting AJ.'
Chisora has been like a big brother to Joshua and he's seriously protective of his fellow North Londoner.
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He wrongly suggests all of the British boxing media has spent time pulling him down off of the pedestal we created on the back of his amateur and pro heroics.
But he admits that his mate is wounded by over-the-top criticism, often done only for clicks.
He said: 'What upsets AJ is that he has done so much for British boxing but the reporters - and people who talk about him - always put him down.
When SunSport passionately denies the charge, he adds: 'He won a gold medal and drove up interest in the sport and created pay-per-view madness for everyone but nobody ever says 'congratulations and thank you'.
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'The guy has come from nothing and made something of himself.
'I feel bad for him because he just wants to enjoy what he has and boxing but people behind a keyboard try to kill him.
'This is why he just keeps quiet and stays in his own lane. He just wants to be happy.'
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