The message landed on Fury’s own Instagram on Sunday, two days after London mayor Sadiq Khan had gone public with a plea to bring the fight to Wembley.
“AJ has st his pants again, yet again. After 11 years he has finally st his pants yet again,” Fury said in the video, carried in a report from The Telegraph.
In the same clip he pivoted to Oleksandr Usyk, the Ukrainian who has beaten him twice.
“Let’s run it back in November. The ball is now in your court, do you want to fight me this year, 2026, or are you calling quits?” Fury said.
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The “coward” video came first
Sunday’s blow-up was preceded by a Wednesday clip in which Fury first branded Joshua a coward. That outburst dropped in the middle of a stand-off over where a proposed November fight should be staged. Saudi promoter Sela, financing the bout, has pushed for Madison Square Garden and an American television window on Netflix, while Joshua’s camp has held out for a UK venue.
“I feel like you’re being a coward. I feel like you don’t want the fight and you’re just conning everybody,” Fury said in that Wednesday video, carried by Sky Sports. “We’re both fing 37, 38 years old, let’s fing fight.”
Frank Warren, Fury’s promoter, told broadcasters the ball was “100 per cent” in Joshua’s court and said Fury had already signed his side of the deal.
Khan tried to pull the fight to London
The picture briefly appeared to soften on Friday, when Khan publicly pressed Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn and Warren to stage the bout in the capital.
“We’ll get 100,000 people watching them live, plus millions watching across the globe,” Khan said, in comments carried by Sky Sports.
Hearn replied the same day by saying Wembley talks had reopened.
“You have been heard and talks have now re-opened for Wembley,” Hearn posted.
A fresh logistical hurdle then surfaced in the boxing press. Organizers wanted a 2am UK start time so the main event would land in American primetime, Hoodline reported, with Wembley’s licence limited to three overnight events a year between 11pm and 9am and both City Hall and Brent Council needed to lift the curfew. Hearn put the odds of an agreement to extend it at around 50 percent.
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What is confirmed and what is not
None of Sunday’s declaration is an official cancellation. Joshua has not spoken publicly on Fury’s remarks. Neither Warren nor Turki Alalshikh, the Saudi General Entertainment Authority chairman who has been funding the negotiation, has issued a statement calling the deal dead. Hearn’s most recent public position, from Friday, was that talks had actually re-opened.
Fury’s declaration is a social-media statement from one fighter, and the fight remains without a signed venue, date or cancellation.
