Anthony Joshua has revealed that he received help from Peter Fury, Fury’s rival Tyson’s uncle and former trainer, ahead of the long-running British fight with the ‘Gypsy King’.
Joshua and Fury first faced each other in a press conference at the London Olympics on Wednesday, six days after announcing the final on December 11 at the Principality Stadium, Cardiff.
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‘AJ’ already has a former Fury partner in his corner, with another Fury in Ben Davison’s team – who also trains the likes of Fabi Wardley and Moses Itauma – hoping to give him an edge.
But Joshua now says he’s reunited with Peter, the brother of Fury’s free dad John, who has been estranged from the ‘Gypsy King’ since the pair split as a fighter and trainer following his world title win over Wladimir Klitschko in 2015.
Anthony Joshua has revealed he has joined forces with Peter Fury and Ben Davison (Getty)
Peter Fury, Tyson’s uncle, was helping Joshua prepare (Getty)
“I’m talking to Peter the Furious, he wants to help me,” said Joshua. “Get me and Peter.”
Asked if Peter imparted a lot of valuable wisdom to him, Joshua added: “Yes, but not about Eriny, but about our training and our approach, how I can approach the fight”, not like, ‘Emena does this’, it’s more like, ‘I saw what you do, and this is where he thinks he can improve’.
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“The answer is that everyone says that I want to win, everyone says that I want to win, but the most important person is to listen to me in my career. So I have to take everything with a pinch of salt.
“But what I was saying wasn’t so much [get] Ben and Peter to go to people that have worked with Erinny before. The reason I worked with them is because they design things.
Joshua says that he spoke to Peter about a month ago, with the fact that his uncle Furi will play a key role in Joshua’s camp, who will be heading to Europe in the coming weeks.
But the relationship with Davison has been strained, having previously worked together between December 2023 and November 2025. He fought three fights, the last with an empathetic knockout loss to Daniel Dubois.
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Joshua was able to look past the mistakes of that corner fighter and believes that Davison’s partnership with Peter can make it happen.
He said: “Dubois was completely wrong, and that’s where he did it to be beaten. But I recognize there what I think I did better. So I don’t want to blame everything on Ben.
Anthony Joshua was outclassed by Ben Davison after his devastating loss to Daniel Dubois (Getty);
“What I have to do is fight with Furia to gain control of mine, but I also add touch, and with these two powers coming together, I think it will be a match made in heaven. I believe.”
Furious admitted he was disappointed to hear that Davison had teamed up with ‘AJ’, having previously taken neither side into contention in an attempt to avoid getting into the middle of things.
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“Is he confirmed? That’s deflating, isn’t Frank,” said Fury, sitting next to supporter Frank Warren, before reminding Davison that he doesn’t always respond.
“Don’t forget, Ben Davison left to go with SugarHill [Steward] because he wasn’t good enough, and this is the same Ben Davison that Anthony Joshua left because he wasn’t good enough when he drove behind Dubois, and the same Ben Davison that everyone said, “Oh, here he is, he is, here he is, he is,” and now they are coming back to him.
“Is this the same Ben Davison who’s just a million-dollar athlete? That’s comforting to me. That gives me joy. Maybe he’ll go out there and shoot a car and say he’s going to throw a car and get caught.
“One thing Ben can’t do is put a muscle on his chin, and that’s it.”
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Fury also claimed that he was patient in the ring on December 11th and would rather pursue a combative, but dangerous, plan from the first bell, suggesting that the fight is unlikely to go the full 12 rounds.
Fury said, “I’m going to get him out, blow him out of there, there’s going to be a gunfight in the OK Corral. I’m not going to go to the box, I’m going to throw him down, I’m going to catch him, and when I do, it’s going to be curtains. That’s it.”