Tyson Fury has officially made himself available to fight Tony Bellew.
Bellew currently doesn't have a fight lined up after perennial rival David Haye withdrew from the pair's grudge rematch on Monday with an arm injury.
Bellew and Haye were set to run it back in London's O2 Arena on December 17 but
'The Hayemaker' damaged his biceps in a bizarre training accident and the fight was declared off in an official statement.
But question marks do remain over Haye's ability to continue fighting at the age of 37. A ruptured Achilles ultimately decided the first fight with Bellew and now he's picked up another injury.
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Let's say Haye can't fight Bellew again, despite the claim that both men are eager to see the bout rescheduled for 2018, who would make for an interesting opponent?
Well Tyson Fury threw his hat in the ring just minutes after news of Haye's latest injury was made public.
There obviously wouldn't be enough time for Fury to shed enough weight or resolve his ongoing licence issue in the next month but he's got a hell of a proposition.
"I've just heard David Haye has pulled out against Tony 'The Bellend' Bellew," Fury said on
Instagram.
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"I'll be ready, willing and waiting to fight Tony Bellew on May 5 at London's O2 Arena.
"Like I said before, Tony, if you want to fight a real man and want to fight the best heavyweight in the world, the heavyweight who beat everybody else and who never lost a fight... The real heavyweight champion of the world. I'll be ready and waiting.
"They call you 'The Bomber', I call you 'The Bellend.'
"It'd be no contest, one uppercut. If you think you can do differently, then prove me wrong. And you can bring your mate as well, the big dosser David Price."
Fury is currently awaiting a UK Anti-Doping hearing so that he can have his boxing licence reinstated but, as tantalising as a Fury vs. Bellew match-up might be, we wouldn't hold out much hope of 'The Bomber' agreeing to it.
Bellew has repeatedly dismissed any chance of fighting Anthony Joshua because 'AJ' is too big and, given the fact that Fury is bigger again, this fight will almost certainly never come to fruition.
