By: Sean Crose
British heavyweight Joe Joyce now has an opportunity to avenge the loss he suffered to Zhilei Zhang this previous spring. For, this September, the laborious hitting contender will likely be battling Zhang once more, this time round at OVO Arena Wembley. Without doubt, this combat means an incredible deal to Joyce, who was hailed as among the finest within the enterprise earlier than the gifted Zhang put a spoke within the hype wheel. In different phrases, Joyce is in a state of affairs the place he MUST win. Enter one Tyson Fury, WBC and lineal heavyweight champion of the world.
“Joe, I saw you got the Zhang fight coming up again,” Fury posted on social media Friday. “If you want some proper southpaw sparring from someone who’s bigger, fatter, quicker, harder puncher — everything than Zhang, please come up to Morecambe and do some sparring with me.” It’s fairly a proposal, one that may properly show useful for Joyce. Like Zhang, Fury is a huge sized heavyweight, plus Fury, till confirmed in any other case, is the most effective within the division. “It can only improve it,” Fury continued. “It’ll make it better. And trust me on this, I’ve got a secret for you and I know how to beat Zhang. Chop him down like an old oak tree.”
The query now could be whether or not Joyce will now go forward and act on Fury’s suggestion. “The offer’s there, Joe,” Fury said. “Get yourself down to Morecambe and do as many rounds as you want with myself. Get up there! Can’t say it any better than that.” It’s value retaining in thoughts that Fury himself hasn’t fought in fairly a while, although he’s teased that a large announcement is on it’s means. He’s lately been attracting the eye of combined martial artists who would like to get a possibility to combat the heavyweight king for some heavyweight cash.
All issues thought of, sparring periods between Fury and Joyce is perhaps good for each fighters. Then once more, Fury might most likely have reached out to Joyce in non-public. What’s extra, one by no means is aware of how issues will work out till issues really begin understanding. Ultimately, nevertheless, Zhang-Joyce 2 goes to be an attention-grabbing combat both means. Plus there’s by no means a uninteresting second when Fury is round. “I won’t charge you a lot,” Fury jokingly mentioned in making his provide to Joyce, “just 100 grand a round.” Again, by no means a uninteresting second.
