“DO YOU ACCEPT MY CHALLENGE???” Tyson Fury bellowed over the top rope, the words tumbling down around Anthony Joshua at ringside. As many have noted, it felt very WWE. Joshua, for his part, wore a slight smirk, but he might as well have been biting his tongue.
In showing restraint and not explicitly accepting Fury’s “challenge”, Joshua disappointed the thousands of remaining fans in Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, and the many watching on Netflix, but “AJ” was right not to humour Fury in this moment.
