TYSON FURY blasted Oleksandr Usyk for going ‘life and death’ with Derek Chisora and called Anthony Joshua ‘a cross-fit bum’.
Fury, 33, was in talks to fight Usyk, 35, in Saudi Arabia for the undisputed heavyweight crown.
But AJ, who lost to the Ukrainian in September, failed to agree a step-aside deal to forfeit his contracted rematch in a financial package.
Instead, Joshua, 32, will rematch Usyk while Fury will proceed in a mandatory WBC title defence against Dillian Whyte, 33.
He told The National: “You can only take who you can fight at the time.
“I’ve got Dillian Whyte next and then there’s a little sucker called Usyk who I’m going to absolutely set about rotten.
“The middleweight. Send him packing. Send him back down to middleweight. That’s all I’m going to do.
“AJ’s a big old bodybuilder. He ain’t worth a carrot. I don’t want to hear how good Usyk is.
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“Let him fight a real heavyweight. He fought an old journeyman in Derek Chisora and it was life and death.
“And then he fought a bodybuilder who’s not even a boxer and had a life and death.
“Until he fights a real fighting man you can’t call him a champion. All roads lead to me; I’m the ‘Gypsy King’.
“If he can beat me I’d say he’s a good man. But if he can’t I’ll still say he’s useless.”
The first-ever heavyweight unification with all four belts on the line will now be further shelved.
But Fury expects a possible future fight to be against Usyk, tipping him to beat Joshua once again.
He said: “Usyk will beat him in the rematch. Yet again. Because AJ’s a bum, he can’t fight.
“He’s been exposed. He’s a cross-fit bum. And that’s all I want to say.”
