Tyson Fury meets with Anthony Joshua and vows to 'smash' heavyweight rival Oleksandr Usyk

Tyson Fury met with domestic rival Anthony Joshua and old foe Francis Ngannou before vowing to smash Oleksandr Usyk.

Heavyweight champion Fury, who fights Usyk for the undisputed world titles on May 18, featured in an unlikely picture alongside Cristiano Ronaldo, Saudi royal advisor Turki Alalshikh, Joshua and Ngannou on Tuesday night. The five of them met in Riyadh ahead of Joshua's mega-fight against Ngannou on Friday night at the Kingdom Arena.

Fury has been linked to fighting Joshua for almost a decade, and he shared the ring with former UFC champion Ngannou last October. The fight ended in controversy as Fury won by a single point despite being dropped by Ngannou, who was making his boxing debut. Fury captioned the picture: "Turki Alalshikh, Cristiano, Francis Ngannou, Anthony Joshua with The GypsyKing. I want the winner after I smash the rabbit [Usyk]."

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Fury's trainer, Andy Lee, revealed things almost kicked off between the Brit and Ngannou while in the same room. "Anthony Joshua is on one side, and Tyson's here," he told iFL TV. "Ngannou came in, and Tyson pulled him up straight away and said, 'Hey you, you've been talking about me in interviews, saying I'm a coward, called me a yellow belly'.

"Ngannou, in fairness, was quite calm and cool. Tyson said, 'You did, saying you won the fight, I beat you'. Ngannou said: 'No, no, no, I didn't say that' but Tyson said: 'You did. What does your record say? You take care of your man, and I'll take care of my man, then I'll give it to you again.' He put it on him for a bit, and it was interesting, it was