Heavyweight contender Dillian Whyte believes Anthony Joshua’s best move, at the moment, is to finalize their rematch for the summer.
Joshua, after suffering back to back defeats to Oleksandr Usyk, bounced back last Saturday night in London, with a twelve round unanimous decision over Jermaine Franklin.
Whyte, who was watching from ringside last weekend, won a twelve round decision over Franklin last November.
The game plan, according to promoter Eddie Hearn, was to match Joshua and Whyte in a summer showdown.
But, Joshua is also pushing to get in the ring with WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury.
Based on his recent performances, and the lack of world titles, Whyte doesn’t see anything that Joshua could offer on the table to entice favorable fight terms from Fury.
Whyte feels the best play, for business purposes, would be their rematch.
“It’s a logical fight,” Whyte told Sky Sports. “Fury is not a person to negotiate with, because he’ll mess you around. If he’s [Fury] being offered unified heavyweight champion and not taking it, what is Joshua going to offer him to take the fight? Nothing.
“He’s obviously seeing Joshua as way beneath him, the fight isn’t going to happen. I don’t know why they are wasting their time. There is someone here who is willing to fight and ready to go, but for some reason Joshua seems to, and I don’t know if it’s a tactic of his, brush it under the carpet.
“I don’t know if he just doesn’t want to fight me or what, because he knows what my mindset is, I’ll come to fight and I carry power in both hands.”
Back in 2015, Joshua stopped Whyte in the seventh round of their grudge match. Whyte holds a win over Joshua from their amateur days.