BUDDY HELL
Fury insists: It’s no old pals act... me and Chisora are ready to go to war for a third time
TYSON FURY has dismissed claims his trilogy clash with Derek Chisora on Saturday will be an old pals’ act.
Fury greeted Chisora like a long-lost friend at yesterday’s media work-out at BT Sport’s studios in Stratford and they have huge respect for each other. But the unbeaten heavyweight king was quick to shoot down any suggestion he and Chisora are going through the motions to earn an easy payday.
Fury has beaten Chisora twice and intends to stop the former world title challenger in front of 60,000 fans at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
“The haters are going to hate,” said the WBC champion. “If Derek wants to go through the motions, it’ll be an early night for him.
“I’m looking to get him out of there, I’m looking for a fourth clean knock-out in a row. Whether it will be quick or not, it will last as long as Derek wants. I’m going to box his head off. I’m feeling on fire.”
Chisora, 38, echoed Fury’s claims and says they will go to war. He says they shook on it yesterday that they would have a slugfest from the first bell.
“Let me tell you, that man there and me, we love to fight,” said Chisora. “We’re in the business of fighting.
“We’re not in the business of robbing the public of their money. We’re in the business of producing a good fight. “After all is said and done, we will break bread together.
“But for however long the fight goes, we’re going to go to war. We want to give the fans a good fight.
“So we figured out that once the ref reads out the instructions, we’re not going to go back to our corners, we’re just going to stand there and let it go from there.
“We said we would stay in the middle and get on with it. We will go when the first bell goes, no walking back.”
Fury, 34, wanted this voluntary defence to keep active ahead of a showdown with Oleksandr Usyk for the undisputed title in late February or early March.
But he insists all he is thinking of after Saturday is going to Qatar to watch England – if they reach the latter stages of the World Cup. “Usyk means nothing to me at this moment,” said Fury.
“Usyk is not on my radar, Chisora is and winning. That’s the most important thing. “Hopefully then, all being well, I will go to Qatar. I don’t want to count my chickens before they hatch.
“But hopefully I win, they get through and I can go out there to support my own boys – it’s coming home!
“It would be nice to win the first winter World Cup.”