After getting his career back on track with victory over Jermaine Franklin, Anthony Joshua is hoping for another impressive outing when he returns to the ring.
Joshua had gone eight months between losing his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk in Saudi Arabia and facing Franklin, but he does not expect the gap to be as long this time around.
Speaking to BBC’s One Show, he said
“It’s been nine months since I was last in the ring and I don’t want to leave it that long again,”
“I want to get back in there in the next three months, I’d say, and just kind of get the ball rolling.”
Tyson Fury has been touted as the most obvious next opponent for Joshua, the latter said it’s left to the former if he also wants it.
“I know who the fans want – they said Fury. The ball is in his court,” Joshua told DAZN in his in-ring interview.
“I would 100 per cent be honoured to compete for the WBC heavyweight championship of the world. I stand here and I say that proudly. It would be an honour.”
Drawn-out talks between the camps of Joshua and Fury have broken down on multiple occasions in the past.
Although Joe Joyce and Dillian Whyte have both called out Joshua over the past week, but the 33-year-old is still pondering his next opponent.
“I’m definitely going to be fighting in the next three months. But against who? It’s still unknown,” he said