TYSON FURY could be 45 before he ever fights Anthony Joshua – so he cannot stick around forever.
Fury’s trainer Sugarhill Steward came close to cornering his man against AJ last summer.
Trainer Sugarhill Steward and Tyson Fury
Sugarhill Steward joked Tyson Fury could be 45 before he ever fights Anthony Joshua
But a US arbitrator ruled that Deontay Wilder was owed a trilogy bout, so Joshua instead faced Oleksandr Usyk and lost.
It now puts the Battle of Britain further away than ever and possibly off the cards completely as Fury claimed he will RETIRE after his next fight.
That would mean walking away on top but still without facing his greatest domestic rival.
But trainer Steward told BT Sport: “Listen, those two men have the opportunity to fight when both of those guys are like 45-year’s-old.
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“Who knows. Do you stick around and just keep waiting for that?
“Or do you live your life in peace knowing that you’ve done everything that you could do to be successful and and know that you put every effort forth?
“You can’t worry about everybody else and situations you have no control over. And that situation, he doesn’t have control over.
“There’s too many other moving components to even think so deep about that.
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“If it was just between him and Anthony Joshua, now you’ve got a better chance, it’s 50/50.
“But now you have it broken down into so may different elements you kid of lose a real control of the situation and it’s best to not even think about it so much or just worry about it and just live your life.
“And I guess that’s what Tyson has chosen to do by saying that he will retire after this fight right here.”
Joshua, 32, can try and convince Fury, 33, into sticking around by beating Usyk, 35, in their expected rematch this year.
But for now, the WBC champion returns on April 23 against mandatory challenger Dillian Whyte, 33, at Wembley.
Fury has stopped Wilder, 36, in his last two fights and coach Steward predicts a similar story against Whyte.
He said: “It’s knockouts always. It’s knockout time. Every fight, I’m preparing Tyson to knock somebody out.”
Tyson Fury fights Dillian Whyte on April 23
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