“Mike’s people contacted me, we talked on the phone, but didn’t agree. The one who offered him a fee came with a crazy offer. Mike initially talked about $ 500 million, but the amount that we were prescribed in the contract looked like some kind of ridicule. ESPN were ready to pay me $ 10 million for the exhibition fight, but now everyone has already abandoned such an idea, ”Fury quotes BoxingScene.
He noted that the conduct of this battle, with any outcome, would cause a stream of negativity towards him.
“If Tyson won, then everyone would say that I'm completely shit because I was beaten by a 53-year-old man. And if I beat him, then everyone would call me a bastard, ”the Briton added.
53-year-old Tyson spent his last fight in a professional ring in the summer of 2005. In total, he spent 58 fights, in which he won 50 victories (44 of which by knockout) and suffered six defeats. Two more fights were declared invalid.
It was previously reported that Fury and Joshua agreed to hold two fights.