One former world champion has little respect for the achievements of modern heavyweight elite, Tyson Fury, Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua.
Between them, there is nothing these three titans haven’t achieved. Tyson Fury was the first to pick up a world title belt when he beat Wladimir Klitschko on away soil back in 2015, with Joshua also claiming world honours the following year.
While Fury spent time away battling mental health demons, ‘AJ’ went on to become a unified world champion, and though he lost his belts to Andy Ruiz, he won them back in the rematch. However, he later lost his belts to Usyk in 2021 and failed to win them back in their rematch in 2022.
In the meantime, Fury beat Deontay Wilder twice to become and remain WBC world champion before also stopping Dillian Whyte and Derek Chisora.
He and Usyk then came together in May 2024 for an undisputed fight, which Usyk won, with the rematch last December going the same way and making the Ukrainian the first man to ever become a two-time undisputed heavyweight champion in the four-belt era.
It seems that somebody isn’t impressed with all those achievements though, as speaking to Boxing King Media, boxing legend James Toney was asked if he thought he could beat any of the men.
“All of them. Easy work. We train, it would be easy work, trust me. I would still knock all those motherf***ers out. Period.”
Toney was famous for his shoulder roll defence and also for winning multiple world championships in three weight classes at middleweight, super middleweight and cruiserweight titles.
He also challenged twice for a world heavyweight title in 2005 and 2006 before retiring in 2017 with 77 wins from 92 bouts.
