ANTHONY JOSHUA was torn apart by Dillian Whyte for having “no real spine or backbone” amid rumours of rematch between them.
Joshua is taking a break from boxing following consecutive defeats to Oleksandr Usyk and failed talks to face Tyson Fury.
His promoter Eddie Hearn said the winner of Whyte’s November 26 fight with Jermaine Franklin would be a frontunner to box AJ next year.
And Whyte has wasted no time in igniting a war of words with the man he beat in the amateurs but lost to six years later in their 2015 thriller.
He told JOE: “You could be speaking to him, and he just looks a bit spaced out and a bit absent-minded and a bit vacant.