Manchester-born Fury seems less enthusiastic about the potential meeting, with the new champion refusing to answer questions about Haye in an interview with Hawksbee and Jacobs this week, while John Fury branded the Londoner a ‘coward’ in an interview with Drivetime.
But Haye has no doubt in his mind who the real coward is, as he
claims Fury will go out of his way to avoid clashes with the top
contenders for his titles.
Speaking on the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast,
the 35-year-old said: “Tyson Fury’s been very vocal in saying that he
would never fight me and I knew that would happen after he won the
title.
“Strangely, before he had the fight against Wladimir Klitschko he was actually saying he would fight me, but the moment he won the title he said he wouldn’t. It’s quite funny.
“I don’t think he really expected to win against Klitschko, so if he
was to lose he could say, ‘OK, now me and David can have this fight'.
“But now that he has won, he’s got all the marbles, he’s thinking, ‘OK, I’m in charge now and you can wait’. I’m fine with that.
“He’s already said he wouldn’t fight Deontay Wilder, the WBC
champion, and his reason for that is that Wilder is a basketball player
who has only been boxing for two years. Well, he’s undefeated and knocked out a lot more people than Fury has. But he’s already written him off.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if he writes off a fight with Anthony
Joshua, as Joshua bashed him up in sparring, and he’s said he doesn’t
want to fight me.
“So off the bat he’s just written off the three biggest threats to
his title. That’s not the best start for a unified heavyweight champion.
“Wladimir Klitschko defended all of his belts and fought the top
contenders for many, many years. Some of them were quite boring, but to
keep the belts you have to beat the number one challengers.”
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