Tyson Fury AND Anthony Joshua both in line for stunning Oleksandr Usyk rematch as world champ gives update on next fight

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OLEKSANDR USYK put Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury on alert by calling them out to unwanted trilogy fights.
Usyk first became unified heavyweight champion with victory over Joshua at Tottenham in 2021 before winning the Riyadh rematch a year later.
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Oleksandr Usyk has called out Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua as he eyes a final fight
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The ace is the undisputed heavyweight ace after winning his rematch against Daniel Dubois
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Usyk saw off Fury twice in 2024
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He's also beaten Joshua twice in convincing wins
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He then took Fury's WBC belt and undefeated record in May 2024 and did the double with a repeat win in December.
That prompted Fury's fourth and latest retirement but he confirmed he WOULD return to face Usyk again - this time in England.
And despite no real clamour for a trilogy with either the Gypsy King or Joshua, Usyk is ready to grant his Great British rival one last shot.
The two-time undisputed heavyweight world champion has one last fight left in his career following his rematch win over Daniel Dubois.
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And when probed on who his final fight could be, he grinned: "Maybe it's Tyson Fury.
"Maybe we have three choices, Derek Chisora and Anthony Joshua. Maybe Joseph Parker. Listen, I cannot now say because I want to go back home."
Usyk - who beat Chisora behind-closed-doors in 2020 - is set to be mandated by the WBO to fight Parker.
The all-time great spent agonising months away from his family to train out in Valencia.
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And Usyk, 38, told those who stuck around to celebrate his excellence: "This is for the people, it's for our world's people.
"This is enough. Next? I don't know. I want to rest. I want to go back home to my wife, my family."
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Fury congratulated Usyk on his win on social media.He wrote on Instagram: 'Congratulations. There's only one man who can beat you again and that's a Gypsy K Tyson Fury done it twice regardless of what the politics say!'
In a video showing him running, Fury then said: 'Massive shout out to Oleksandr Usyk, he did a fantastic performance tonight.
'They came for a good tear up so congratulations to both men.
'Usyk knows there's only one man who can beat him. I've done it twice before and the world knows it.
'I've been f****d and took it like a man. And here's me not f*****g around at some boxing match.
'I'm out on the road running. I come home, I done the job and I am the man. I'm the f*****g spartan.
'No matter what anyone says, I f*****g won them fights guaranteed.
'There's only one man, G K all day every day.'
Dubois, 27, bounced back from stoppage losses to Joe Joyce and Usyk to become IBF heavyweight world champion.
But after being dropped twice and stopped in five rounds, he said: "I have to commend him, I gave everything I had.
"There were some things I could have sharpened up on, but I'll be back. I was in a fight, I was trying to pick it round by round, but it is what it is, I'll be back."