IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has no concerns when it comes to the drug testing past of WBC champion Tyson Fury.
Back in 2017, Fury agreed to a back-dated two year ban with drug testing agency UKAD – a punishment pertaining to a positive test for the banned substance nandrolone in early 2015.
Fury’s team claimed the positive test was directly connected to eating uncastrated wild boar meat.
The drug testing drama resurfaced when a farmer, Martin Carefoot, made a wild claim that he had been offered £25,000 into saying he had provided Fury with the boar meat.
Carefoot, who says he never received the promised funds, would later withdraw his allegation.
He never revealed the name of the Fury team member who allegedly approached him with the offer.
Fury and his team have strongly denied the farmer’s allegations.
Joshua is currently in talks to finalize a potential 2021 unification with Fury.
There are no worries on his end when it comes to Fury’s past drama with UKAD.
“With the UKAD situation, every win he’s had has had drama around it. Whether it was to do with Klitschko, Wilder, there is always drama. I’m a straight-up warrior, I just want to fight him. I don’t care about anything in his body,” Joshua said to reporters.
Joshua also discussed Fury being very familiar with one of his trademark weapons – the uppercut.
The two division rivals had a heated sparring sessions many years ago, when Joshua was still an amateur.
“He knows about my uppercut, he knew about it from when I was 20 years old. Trust me, he knows what’s coming. I’m serious about the fight so when I announce it, you’ll know it’s real,” Joshua said.