Tyson Fury has branded his new December 3 opponent Mahmoud Charr "a man who wants to fight" after cancelling his bout with Anthony Joshua.
The world heavyweight champion placed a seemingly random deadline of yesterday evening for Joshua to put pen to paper on a contract for the pair to meet in December, and his rival couldn't make the deal happen in time. Now, it appears that Fury will face Charr instead at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff in a voluntary title defence before facing Oleksandr Usyk next year.
Former WBA 'regular' champion Charr has been angling for a fight with Fury over the past few months, and has remained a constant figure throughout the last few weeks of negotiations for the Joshua bout. Ultimately, he was chosen as the opponent for December 3, which will be Fury's second bout on British soil this year after a four-year absence.
