Anthony Joshua: The fight between me and Fury has to happen in UK
“Me and Fury is streets, two warriors, two fighters who have come from the amateur system in the UK, and have taken the world by storm. We’ll get it on in Britain."
It was a bout only arranged after plans to face Fury in August collapsed when a United States arbitrator ordered Fury to take on Deontay Wilder again.
Concerns continue to grow that the two British boxing greats would be kept apart before they both called it a day, but the 31-year-old Joshua, who started as an amateur at Finchley, remains optimistic a unification of the division can still occur, should both win their respective contests with Usyk and Wilder.
"We were meant to have fought by now and here we are talking about it,' Joshua told the Daily Mail.
"But it will happen. I know what people are saying about boxing politics, but I'll promise before the end of my career I will have done everything in my power to fight Tyson Fury.
"We saw it with Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao (not fighting until they were beyond their primes) but that was a superstar fight.