Tyson Fury takes delight in baiting and belittling Anthony Joshua at every opportunity, but he has 100 million reasons for hoping his rival world heavyweight champion beats Oleksandr Usyk on Saturday night.
The Gypsy King left London town a week before the fight at Tottenham’s new stadium but he will be glued to a television screen 5,000 miles away, willing AJ to win.
An upset victory for Usyk, Ukraine’s master boxer, would knock the stuffing out of long-laid plans for Fury and Joshua to collide twice next year. Those two fights for the undisputed heavyweight crown are expected to accrue £200million.