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20th April 2017
03:57pm BST

But, if you ask Joshua, this isn't the biggest fight on the table as he insists that an all-British showdown with Tyson Fury would far exceed the fight that's staring him right in the face.
"I think Tyson Fury is the biggest fight for me," Joshua said. "If it were up to me, that would have been the fight happening this summer. That’s what I thought. I was planning for a massive showdown with Tyson Fury, but he had other plans and I just had to carry on. When he returns, I’m sure I’ll still be here."
Joshua and Fury exchanged barbs on Twitter this week, with 'AJ' insisting that Fury's out-of-ring indiscretions were the only reason they had yet to cross paths.
https://twitter.com/SportsJOE_UK/status/854382236103315458
"Twitter is about communication and it’s just communicating," Joshua said. "He addresses me and tweets me quite often and I was just in the frame of mind where I thought me and Klitschko don’t have much verbals, so let me respond to Fury."
In all probability, Joshua would welcome the increase in "verbals", as he calls it, as tension translates seamlessly to money when it comes to prize-fighting.
Fury is always going to have more to say than the typically stoic Klitschko, although the Ukrainian did his best to get the trash-talk started last week.
https://twitter.com/SportsJOE_UK/status/851334183226134531
But fight fans saw right through it and the pair went right back to being best friends once sat opposite each other on The Gloves Are Off.Explore more on these topics: