Tyson Fury has welcomed Anthony Joshua’s return to training, and insisted their all British mega-fight can be made next.
After a year in retirement Fury will return to boxing on April 11 when he fights Arslanbek Makhmudov at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
But after next month's comeback fight, Fury is eager to go straight into his long awaited showdown with Joshua.
It's a fight he expects Joshua to want too.
"Of course, if it's a fight to be made, let's get it done. Let me get Makhmudov out the way, and we're on," Fury, speaking from his training camp in Thailand, told Your Site.
"[I've] always been the same. Anyone can get it."
Joshua was involved in a tragic car accident in December, that saw two of his close friends and team members lose their lives. But, recovering from injury himself, he is back in the boxing gym.
"Good to see the guy back in training camp. He's obviously had a bit of a tough time lately and all that. So I'll just give him space and whatever he wants to do, he can do," Fury noted.
Joshua looks to be in serious training though and is working with Oleksandr Usyk, the unified heavyweight champion who has beaten both Fury and AJ twice.
Fury did warn Joshua: "It won't help him. It won't help him at all. I punched the head off Usyk and I'll punch the head off AJ as well.
"I hope he's in the corner as well," Fury added of Usyk. "I'll bring Lennox [Lewis] into my corner! Let's do it.
"I told Lennox Lewis at the press conference, if he's in town, come in the corner."
Joshua is the fight Fury wants, even more so than the winner of the WBO world title fight between Fabio Wardley and Daniel Dubois on May 9 in Manchester.
"They're all options because nothing's promised. The biggest fight for me in world boxing and the biggest fight in the world of boxing is me versus AJ," Fury explained.
"Even today, even after all these years it's still the biggest fight in boxing, it's still the biggest fight."
Though Joshua is his preferred opponent, a trilogy fight with Usyk and a title fight with the Wardley-Dubois victor have appeal too.
"After that [AJ fight] for me, it would be me versus Usyk, or the winner of them two [Wardley and Dubois]," Fury said.
"Three-time world champion's pretty good, it's got a good ring to it. But being a five-time world champion or the chance to knock AJ out, I'd take the chance to knock AJ out.
"Because once you've won all the belts before, which I have - it's always nice to be a world champion, great. But it's not the be all and end all.
"I think the fans are more interested in me and Joshua in the street rather than another world title."
