{"id":295533,"date":"2023-10-30T00:45:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T00:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=295533"},"modified":"2023-10-30T00:45:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T00:45:13","slug":"tyson-fury-told-me-to-kick-anthony-joshua-in-the-balls-before-wembley-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/boxing\/tyson-fury-told-me-to-kick-anthony-joshua-in-the-balls-before-wembley-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tyson Fury told me to kick Anthony Joshua in the balls before Wembley fight&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyson Fury once told an Anthony Joshua opponent to kick his British rival in the balls as part of a bizarre pre-fight pep talk<\/p>\n<p>Veteran heavyweight Matt Legg fought a young Joshua on the undercard of Carl Froch vs George Groves 2 at Wembley in 2014. It proved to be final fight of Legg\u2019s career, but it was a memorable way to finish, even if he was stopped inside two rounds and left with a broken eye socket.<\/p>\n<p>In the months before the fight, Legg enjoyed some high-level sparring with Tyson Fury after answering a challenge from the Gypsy King. Fury had branded his British rivals &quot;pussies&quot; in a social media post as he struggled to find opponents and even sparing partners. Legg answered the challenge and sparred with Fury on his family\u2019s caravan site. <\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE: <\/b><b>&apos;Anthony Joshua was a big fan of mine \u2013 then left me with a broken eye socket at Wembley&apos;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE: Every meal Tyson Fury scoffs in fight week diet \u2013 including roast potatoes for breakfast<\/b><\/p>\n<p>He later returned for another session with Fury and his cousin Hughie. Legg won the respect of the Fury family, with Tyson even offering him some comical advice before he got in the ring with rising star Joshua.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI actually got a message from Tyson before the AJ fight and he said, \u2018give it everything you\u2019ve got for one round&apos;,\u201d Legg told <b>Daily Star Sport.<\/b> \u201cHeadbutt him, bite him, kick him in the balls! You know what Tyson\u2019s like, he says funny stuff like that. <\/p>\n<p><b><i>Do you think we&apos;ll ever see Fury vs Joshua? Tell us in the comments section below<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article30681694.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/0_gettyimages-494670863-594x594.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article30681652.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/0_mattlegg1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got that message the night before and it made me laugh. My plan was to give it everything for two rounds anyway so they weren\u2019t far off, but without the dirty tactics!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Legg, who has a popular YouTube channel where gives his views on the fight scene, is intrigued rather excited about Fury\u2019s showdown with MMA star Francis Ngannou this weekend. Like many boxing fans, he is eagerly anticipating Fury\u2019s heavyweight unification fight against Oleksandr Usyk, due to take place at the end of this year or early in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article31258584.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615\/0_tntJPG.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can purchase this event directly through your Sky box<span> on channel 490 or click the link below to sign up <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a321.95<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will watch it but I\u2019m little bit disappointed he\u2019s not fighting Usyk [first],\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s the fight we want to do. People want to see the Usyk fight to get an undisputed champion. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been dying for that for since Lennox Lewis. I\u2019ll still watch it out of curiosity but there\u2019s not one person saying Francis Ngannou can win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/tyson-fury-anthony-joshua-boxing-31301334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyson Fury once told an Anthony Joshua opponent to kick his British rival in the balls as part of a bizarre pre-fight pep talk Veteran heavyweight Matt Legg fought a young Joshua on the undercard of Carl Froch vs George Groves 2&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Tyson Fury told me to kick Anthony Joshua in the balls before Wembley fight&#039; - 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