Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury ‘never said a word to each other’ during tense meeting with Cristiano Ronaldo
ANTHONY JOSHUA and Tyson Fury stood shoulder-to-shoulder with each other during a tense meeting – but not a word was said.
Fury is in Saudi Arabia to watch Francis Ngannou in action against AJ on Friday, just five months after his controversial win over the MMA star.
The Gypsy King and Ngannou joined Joshua and football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo for a picture with Saudi boxing powerbroker Turki Alalshikh.
And the heavyweight rivals got into a verbal altercation just moments before the sensational snap.
But according to Fury’s assistant coach Andy Lee, there was no such verbal warfare with Joshua, 34, despite the years of feuding.
He told iFL TV: “They actually never said a word to each other, which was interesting.
“We were walking shoulder to shoulder at one stage – me, Joe, Joshua and Tyson, but it just never happened.”
Fury, 35, was floored in his bout with Ngannou, 37, and the ex-UFC champion has insisted he was robbed of a sensational upset victory.
So there was evidently no love lost when the pair reunited face-to-face again in Riyadh.
Lee said: “Ngannou came in and Tyson pulled him up straight away and said, ‘Hey you, you’ve been talking about me in interviews saying I’m a coward, calling me yellow belly.’
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“But Ngannou in fairness was quite calm and cool and said, ‘I didn’t say that.’ (Fury said), ‘You did, saying you won the fight. I beat you. I beat you.’
And Ngannou said, ‘No, no, no, I didn’t say that.’ ‘Yes you did,’ Tyson said. ‘What does your record say?’
“Tyson said, ‘You take care of your man and I’ll take care of mine and I’ll give it to you again.’ He put it on him for a bit but it was interesting.”