{"id":318244,"date":"2026-04-14T01:22:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=318244"},"modified":"2026-04-14T01:22:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:52:35","slug":"tyson-fury-admits-anthony-joshua-gave-me-a-beating-in-sparring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/tyson-fury-admits-anthony-joshua-gave-me-a-beating-in-sparring\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury Admits Anthony Joshua \u201cgave Me A Beating\u201d In Sparring"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cI sparred with the ABA champion. He\u2019s red hot, him. He\u2019s excellent,\u201d Fury said.<\/p>\n

Fury explained that he had expected a controlled session but was caught off guard by Joshua\u2019s intensity.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe rushed out at me, then, bash, he hit me with a right uppercut right on the purpose of my chin. If I\u2019d have had a little bit of a weak chin, I\u2019d have been knocked out for a month,\u201d Fury said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He went further when reflecting on the complete spar.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI class myself as top-of-the-line heavyweights on the earth and he got here at me for 3 rounds and he gave me a beating,\u201d Fury said. \u201cI\u2019m not going to disclaim it. He gave me what for, hell for leather for 3 rounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Fury was quick to separate sparring from knowledgeable fight but still acknowledged Joshua\u2019s level on the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tell it prefer it is. If the child was no good, I\u2019d say it. But he is sweet, and I\u2019ll tell anyone that he beat me up in sparring.\u201d<\/p>\n

The clip has circulated again after Joshua referenced the session during a recent face-off, bringing the long-standing story back into focus.<\/p>\n

The version of Anthony Joshua from the ABA days was a physical specimen with a \u201cseek and destroy\u201d mentality. Back then, he hadn\u2019t yet developed the more cautious, technical approach we\u2019ve seen later in his profession.<\/p>\n

At 21, Fury was still finding his man strength. His shots were often flicking and aimed toward creating hesitation relatively than causing damage. For a young, hungry Joshua, those slapping shots were just an invite to shut the space.<\/p>\n

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Robert Segal is a boxing journalist at Boxing News 24 with greater than a decade of experience covering fight news, previews, and evaluation. Known for his straightforward reporting and ringside perspective, he delivers authoritative coverage of champions, contenders, and emerging talent worldwide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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\u201cI sparred with the ABA champion. He\u2019s red hot, him. He\u2019s excellent,\u201d Fury said. Fury explained that he had expected a controlled session but was caught off guard by Joshua\u2019s intensity. \u201cHe rushed out at me, then, bash, he hit me with a right uppercut right on the purpose of my chin. If I\u2019d have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":318245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[1504,1414,12036,8082,12792,1094,10649,7686],"class_list":["post-318244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-admits","tag-anthony","tag-beating","tag-fury","tag-gave","tag-joshua","tag-sparring","tag-tyson"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318247,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318244\/revisions\/318247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}